“What is the difference between 285 hours and 12 days?”
A testimony of personal experience on a path of endurance and challenge, built around the concept of Ultra-mindset.
An authentic account that aims to be moving and inspiring.







The setbacks range from the unpredictable to the amusing, but they are almost always opportunities to learn.
Doing an Ironman is very different from crossing a continent. It is also very different to do it with support or fully self-supported. With a closed or an open route. On the road or off it.
What is the role of absorbing feedback, of progressively increasing difficulty and, inevitably, of the number of variables we have to face??
Father of two girls and a full-time professional in the tech sector, author of Race Across A Mind, the story of the first Portuguese to complete the Race Across America solo — available since 24 September 2026.
Time and priority management are an additional challenge.
How do we balance the professional and sporting spheres: what does ultra-endurance bring to professional life, and which tools do we co-develop and apply in both?
What is our role in the lives of those around us?
How do we optimise and fit in a challenge that is, first of all, personal, but that has to make sense within the whole?

And because the talk is about a personal story but the session must involve the audience…
What questions and curiosities do you have?
What lessons do you take away?
Whether they seek them out or let themselves be found by them: what are each person’s passions, strength and motivation?
What new goals, and what way of approaching them?
What challenges?
In the end, what will change after the session?
RACE ACROSS A MIND
What fits into sixty minutes on stage has three hundred pages behind it. Available now, in print and on Kindle.
WHERE TO BUYAVAILABLE SINCE 24 SEPTEMBER 2026
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