Exploration of Psychological Resilience during a 25-Day Endurance Challenge in an Extreme Environment
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Method
2.1. Research Design and Philosophical Underpinnings
2.2. Challenge Context
2.3. Participants
2.4. Data Collection Methods
2.4.1. Video Diaries
2.4.2. Focus Groups
2.4.3. The 10-Item Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC10)
2.5. Procedure
2.6. Data Analysis
2.7. Methodological Rigour
3. Results and Discussion
3.1. Identification of Stressors during the Challenge
“Some serious terrain challenges, makes you question the choices, choices you are making. Obviously, the heat today, apparently it was the hottest place in the UK today and we certainly felt it. So, obviously, that adds some real complexity to being out on the hills.”
“It was a very hot day and a very tough day…the first few hills going, I could feel my quads and my calves but I expected that so I went through and we just managed through the day.”
3.1.1. Cluster Effect
“Today, it’s just knowing what’s required in these sorts of conditions to ensure you are safe, the group, the people you are with, the team are safe, are they doing the right things…with the cumulative effect of what we’re doing.”
“But I think obviously we’ve had it difficult, the support team have had it difficult because it’s been there are challenges within the challenge no one anticipated that we would have to deal with the midge infestation that we had or well just the biblical efforts of the weather. And of course that puts a strain on things. It’s natural you’re isolated because you can’t actually sit and be a complete community cause the only shelter is a piece of polythene. We’re in each other’s pockets 24 h a day, 7 days a week with people that you’ve not lived with spent time with and we’ve all got our own idiosyncrasies. We’ve all got our own ways of doing things and at time yeah you do lose it. You don’t lose your temper or you get moody or whatever and take yourself away from it but then in the end you’ve just gotta come back and carry on.”
3.1.2. Different Stages and Bifurcation Points
“It is an unusual environment to be in and you all get tired you all have good days and bad days and you get through that. There’s not a lot of choice you just focus on the next day but there’s always something coming next or you have to get ready or there’s like people asking questions or prepare for the next day it’s all go, go, go. And I think it’s for everyone it’s for the support team it’s also for us the same…Yeah so we didn’t really have a lot of time to actually chill and relax and let things sink in because we had long days and we had to get ready for the next one and think about the next day so we didn’t have a lot of like downtime just to chill and just sit as a team. And also because of the midges and the weather we kinda stuck in our tents sometimes so yeah.”
3.1.3. Start of the Cluster Effect
“Sure like it’s if you go to find the cycling and the climbing the peaks like Jordan has said as well and the weather and the midges and just everything else even like transition day packing up and things like that those are challenges on their own apart from the cycling and you’ve got challenges also getting along with the team and making sure everything work well the support team those are separate challenges on top of what we do already so and yeah.”
“The day went pretty well. Coming back to base camp, talking to the [support team] they have had a nightmare setting up the base camp. The midges here at the moment are absolute hell. That is, one of the hardest challenges is dealing with the midges.”
“I’ve found some situations difficult to deal with purely because I don’t understand the mentality of certain individuals that they make, and, because of the nature of this challenge. Because of the nature of the physicality of it and everyone is getting tired the demands are great and conditions aren’t ideal. Small things become big things.”
“And because we had the transition before. It was a late start which wasn’t ideal but it is what it is so we cracked on with the TAB and immediately found that the ground was quite tough.”
3.2. Exploration of Resilience
Challenge Mindset
“It was a big challenge for me yesterday. I haven’t covered anywhere near that distance…another challenging day, but the hills are why I am here. The cycling isn’t my thing. It’s something I’m just doing [to get back in the hills].”
“The main challenge was the terrain for us from that point of view, absolutely horrendous again. It is so hard to explain what you have to go through to get to the top of the mountains.”
“In comparison to what this time of year means to me, this challenge isn’t anywhere near as tough as what this period of time means. So again, being away from home, maybe that’s more of a challenge than this is.”
“The terrain, its actually very very difficult to make people understand unless you’re doing these routes how demanding actually those trails are. So, that’s a challenge and the only way you can deal with that challenge is putting one foot in front of the other…I don’t stop. I keep going. I keep focused on what we are trying to achieved.”
“Mentally its draining purely because every single step we’re taking, especially on the ridges, every single step you’re taking you’re having to constantly watch your footing and that is taxing.”
“We decided to take a vote on it and initially 3 people wanted to go forward and along the ridge and 2 decided it was, probably too risky and I was one who said that is wasn’t as bad as it looked, there was a safe way off…So, I think we made the right call.”
“I think we just sort of bounce off each other a bit, don’t we? And, you know, try and have a bit of a laugh, if you see someone down, just try and pick them up a bit, you know, sort of we’re always having a laugh and a joke and, you know, it seems to keep everyone’s morale up… it probably releases…tension is not the right word, but I think it just, a little bit of humour goes a long, long way. I think when you’re faced with the challenges that we’re obviously faced with day in, day out, irrespective of the challenge itself. Obviously in addition to all the personal challenges that people are facing, it just sort of, it’s a smile, a bit of humour can make the day a lot, lot brighter. And obviously it needs to because the days are long and they’re only going to get longer, and the challenges are only going to get more and more arduous as we go on.”
“Just having that focus to get up each one and again it was just…and yeah we have a right laugh when we’re out it’s a bit ridiculous really some of the things that we’ve done. Look at me. And looking across, I mean, we were on… We were going up one mountain it was the worst one we’ve been and I looked across to Blair and I mean it was literally like that [makes hand gesture about the slope] but it was all just loose stone and shingle and slate and everything else so every time you moved the whole mountain just moved and I’ve look across to them and we were just laughing at each other and I think if you haven’t got that sense of humour you’d kind of knock it on the head.”
“We actually had a bit of a laugh, just I didn’t really chip in much, but, you know, we all had a laugh…There was a bit of a challenge yesterday and the way I kind of deal with it is to just laugh about it.”
“All of us really is I would say sorting the base camp out. Within a couple of days they got it running like clockwork for us…So really the support team, at the moment the support team are what’s making this happen for us. I mean we…well, for me, we’ve got the easy job, we’re sort of doing what we love doing…it’s such a hard physical challenge, it is easy for us because we’re not having to come home and cook our tea, wash our clothes, get everything ready, these guys are doing it all for us. So, although the days are long and that, it’s brilliant, it really is.”
“They’ve been around, they’ve been terrible the midges. If it’s not pissing down with rain and freezing cold then the midges are out but it’s like I’ve said for us we’re up in the mountains or on our bikes so we do get away from it for a long period of time these guys they’re never away from it. The weather’s either shit for ‘em or they’re getting bit too… We come back here and they’ve got nets over their faces and they’re still cooking and getting stuff ready, washing, drying it can’t be easy and like I say it’s not a job… I’d much rather be climbing mountains all day than doing all that.”
“And on the top of the mountain we had [Partial] sitting there waiting for us with a carrier bag full of snow, stuffed with Trooper [bottled beer] in it. And the bloke had driven 500 miles just to be there and come and TAB with us, which is massive.”
“[Partial] wasn’t as fit as I was, kind of, left with them, and I encouraged them. I looked after them and I looked after them and the [other challenge team members] went off. So, I that made me pretty pissed off to be honest.”
“I mean a prime example was like yesterday, we was in the mountains for a good while. And the conditions were rubbish, you know, rain, wind, couldn’t really see a lot in front of you. And we was up there like yesterday, what, eight/nine hours. You know, and then we come back down and [Support Team Member] is there with a hot chocolate.
He offered us chocolate bars.
Just that, it’s a real sort of morale lifter.
Just, that it’s simple things like that, it really is simple things. When you’ve had a hard day, the thought of actually coming back and seeing that you’ve got something hot and steaming and sweet.”
“Everybody’s physically tired, mentally tired and I mean we had a lot of days where you’re not so much the stuff that we was doing was possibly physically demanding but it was mentally demanding.”
“You do face challenges like every day actually. When you come onto the hills, you’ve got mud, slime and yeah, like with communication as well. At first you need to, you know, get used to the people. See how they, you know, work and things like that. And the longer the challenge goes on, you know, the better it gets, you get to know each other better. But to pick out a specific challenge, it’s quite hard, because every day, you know, every mile is a challenge, you know, sometimes you’ve got sore legs on the bike. Well, you just have to push through and, you know, work together and help each other.”
“You’ve got to accept at the end of the day individuals have different personality traits and it’s trying to get used to how people operate. You’ve gotta then learn how to try and instil the best behaviour part of everybody to ensure that you get where you need to be. And I think with a challenge like this it’s probably very difficult because although it’s a seemingly long period of time it’s not really in the grand scheme of things. 25 days isn’t long to spend with people that you’ve probably never spent 25 days with before to completely understand them as individuals and obviously that takes a long time to work out the kinks but it’s the getting there slowly but surely.”
“Probably not spent that amount of time in close proximity with these people before and there’s always gonna be the odd tension that’s gonna spring up from time to time it’s just a case of if that arises putting the team first and thinking “I’ve gotta work with all these people” and getting on with it for the sake of the main goal.”
4. General Discussion
4.1. Strengths and Limitations
4.2. Future Research
4.3. Practical Implications
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Identification of Stressors | |
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Significant Stressors | Personal Administration Errors |
Unpredictable Disruptive Incidents | |
Everyday Stressors | |
Cluster Effect | |
The Start of the Cluster Effect | |
Different Stages and Bifurcation Points |
Exploration of Resilience | |
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Challenge Mindset | Acceptance |
Putting One Foot in From of the Other | |
Humour | |
The Complexity of Social Support | |
Interpersonal Differences |
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Harrison, D.; Sarkar, M.; Saward, C.; Sunderland, C. Exploration of Psychological Resilience during a 25-Day Endurance Challenge in an Extreme Environment. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18, 12707. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182312707
Harrison D, Sarkar M, Saward C, Sunderland C. Exploration of Psychological Resilience during a 25-Day Endurance Challenge in an Extreme Environment. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021; 18(23):12707. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182312707
Chicago/Turabian StyleHarrison, David, Mustafa Sarkar, Chris Saward, and Caroline Sunderland. 2021. "Exploration of Psychological Resilience during a 25-Day Endurance Challenge in an Extreme Environment" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 23: 12707. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182312707