Like ending a marathon, efficiently finishing a Rubik’s Dice is one thing that even those that have by no means finished it perceive that it’s difficult, distinctive and price celebrating. And the few who have finished it take pleasure in a particular kind of camaraderie.
To most minds, the similarities between the dice and the marathon cease there. However for this week’s visitor, Canadian Working’s cowl athlete, George Scholey, there’s far more to the equation.
At simply 23, Scholey has already damaged a number of Rubik’s Dice world data, together with for probably the most cubes solved in 24 hours. Lately, he’s begun a brand new pursuit: marathon working. It wasn’t lengthy earlier than his two passions converged–in his hometown on the London Marathon, the place he broke yet one more report, fixing 520 cubes over the course of the marathon (a mean of greater than 12 cubes per kilometre).
On this week’s episode, George joins us from his new dwelling base in Canada, the place he’s engaged on the enterprise of cubing as a model supervisor at Rubik’s international headquarters in Toronto. We discuss concerning the parallels between cubing and coaching, how he suits the items of his full-time work and fervour venture collectively, and what the world’s hottest puzzle may need to supply runners of all capability ranges.
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