Outrunning the Sun: Lessons in Sustainable High Performance
Theme: The Long Game
There is a moment in every long race where the maths stops working: the kilometres left, the light left, the legs left. What happens next has nothing to do with pushing harder and everything to do with how you built the preceding hours.
This essay is about that arithmetic, and what it teaches leaders about sustainable high performance: pacing as a strategy, recovery as an input, and why the people who finish are rarely the ones who started fastest.
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This theme comes to life in The Long Game, one of Samantha's five 2026 keynotes. Explore the keynotes.
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