126: Charlie Engle | Runs for his Life

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Running across the Sahara, all 4600 miles, 50 miles a day for 111 consecutive days. That’s what Ultrarunner Charlie Engle did to raise 6 million dollars for H20 Africa (now Water.org). In doing so he took his passion and did good with it. Engle overcame addiction and an unexpected jail sentence, but instead of running away from adversity, he embraced it. He started running marathons which turned into a gateway for more daunting races like ecochallenges. All told he’s been racing for 30 years. His top piece of advice: attempting to make your life easier is a mistake.

Lessons:
1. Welcome some suffering when it enters your life, some of the greatest lessons are from hardship. 
2. Keep forward momentum going.  
3. Find a way to use what you love to improve the world.  

CREDITS
Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.
Hosts: Joe De Sena with Johnny Waite, Sefra Alexandra, Col. Tim Nye, Dr. Delle & David Deluca
Synopsis – Matt Baatz
© 2017 Spartan

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey guys, good to be back here in the Amy Lodge,
0:03.2	Pinsfield, Vermont.
0:04.6	Sure is, Sepfra.
0:06.6	So I just want to introduce Sepfra on the far side.
0:10.8	Sefra, you? And you introduce the person... You introduce the person to your right.
0:15.0	The person to my right is your lovely wife.
0:19.0	Have you forgot her already?
0:21.0	The person to my front is made marrying and to my left I have the
0:27.4	one the only colonel and I and who do you have to you? I have the lovely Dr. Del Grismo.
0:35.0	And of course I have the wonderful Dr. Johnny Waite.
0:39.5	That's right, the honorary Dr. Johnny Waite.
0:42.0	Who are we talking to today?
0:43.0	Well, it's funny, this is a guy that I actually met when we were on the Spartan crews
0:46.1	in the Bahamas, Charlie Engel, and I'd read a couple of stories about Charlie
0:48.8	and I never met him in person and he's done some incredible things.
0:51.7	But meeting with a person was really interesting, very gregarious
0:54.0	engaging guy and so I'm curious to see this interview because like I say I've read about him I know about
0:59.4	him and it was neat to meet him in person so let's see what he had to say.
1:01.6	Head to the ship. Head to the ship.
1:03.2	Head to the ship. We're back at the diner with Charlie Engels.
1:08.2	This is a floating diner and you ran across Sahara. That's not a mall somewhere in America, the Sahara Desert.
1:14.0	No, it was the whole Sahara Desert even, so it was 4,600 miles and basically I ran with a couple of friends of mine
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