132. Alex Honnold Interview! One of the Best Athletes Ever Talks Training and Life

Some Work, All Play

David Roche and Megan Roche

Running, Sports

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2022

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

We had a fantastic, life-changing interview with one of our heroes, Alex Honnold! You probably know Alex from the movie Free Solo, which documented his climb of El Capitan in Yosemite, possibly the most historic athletic achievement ever. But did you know that Alex is also a runner, recently completing a 50k, with plans for more? It was SO FREAKING FUN to pick his brain on climbing and running training. We asked some smart questions and some dumb ones, as is our nature.

But the training discussion was just the beginning! Alex also talked to us about avoiding the pitfalls of external validation, his advice to aspiring young athletes, the reality of aging as an athlete, parenting, fueling, and SO MUCH MORE. And get a load of this: After an hour, he turned the tables on us and asked questions about running training. His curiosity was inspiring as heck, and we all flew our freak flags together.

Alex is not just a legendary athlete, he is a stellar human whose kindness and humor lifts up everyone around him. We loved this interview, and we can't wait for you to listen! We appreciate you all so much. WOOHOO!

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0:00.0	Well, welcome to the Summer Call Play Podcast. We are so happy to be with you today.
0:04.8	Happy Tuesday.
0:05.8	It's Tuesday.
0:06.8	Okay, it might actually be one of the best Tuesdays of our entire life.
0:10.8	David, do you agree?
0:11.8	Oh my God, yeah, this totally beats marriage, this totally beats Leo being born.
0:15.8	This equipses it all because we got to interview Alex Honald, one of our ultimate heroes in
0:20.6	sport and life.
0:21.6	It was one of the most fun conversations and I don't know, sometimes I've met heroes
0:25.4	and I felt let down before and this was the exact opposite experience even from the
0:29.8	outset of our communication.
0:31.1	So emailing him initially, Alex Honald was responding with exclamation points.
0:35.4	He was bringing that exclamation point game fire and it just made us feel that he's the
0:39.2	entire time.
0:40.2	Yeah, could you imagine getting an email from Barack Obama with exclamation points because
0:43.4	that's what it felt like to me to get those in our inboxes.
0:46.6	So this conversation touches on everything.
0:48.5	We start with his fore-enter ultra running and running recently.
0:51.4	He's done outstandingly at some 50Ks.
0:54.1	He's done an epic traverse outside of his home in Las Vegas.
0:57.6	Then it gets into climbing.
0:58.7	It talks about how the training approaches mix and where the interplays might be.
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