#243 - 401 Marathons & it's affect on the body with Ben Smith

Ben Coomber Radio

Ben Coomber

Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2017

⏱️ 46 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

If you did 401 marathons, how do you think it would affect your body, let alone your mind? Ben Smith, a man on a quest to find out what makes him tick in life set out to run 401 marathons in 401 days, an incredible feat of mental and physical toughness. But how did that affect his body? How did it affect his well-being? Why did he decide to do such a mad event? What led to this decision? What did he eat? What was his favourite pair of trainers from the 23 he used? Discover this and much more with this incredible fascinating interview with Ben Smith. Find out more at: www.the401challenge.co.uk/

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey everyone, Benkin Radio, episode number 243.
0:06.0	Now we talk a lot about nutrition and diet and training and all that kind of stuff,
0:10.6	and it's good to speak to people that have brought this all together
0:14.1	in a deeply physical challenge that sets out to challenge them physically,
0:20.2	mentally, change the status quo and the man on the show today has done this in an
0:26.2	incredible portion I don't think I've ever seen an individual or heard of an
0:30.2	individual that have ran quite so much as you you know I'm not a runner, I'm a
0:34.8	rugby player, I lift some weights, I chase after an egg, it doesn't involve running
0:39.7	more than like five miles flat out. So to hear that someone ran 401 marathons back to back and went through
0:48.4	23 pairs of trainers is, well, O. M. G. Ben Smith, welcome to the show.
0:55.0	Yeah, thanks for having me back.
0:57.0	Ben, I've just told everyone you did 401 marathons, that's like your headline piece but there's I'm assuming
1:06.2	there's a little bit more to you than the fact that you've done loads of
1:08.8	running so who's Ben Smith? So, funnily, not have been asked that question.
1:16.4	Who's Ben Smith?
1:17.4	I don't answer this.
1:20.6	I suppose I'm a guy that likes to dream big and I tend to just go for what I want really.
1:28.0	I'm very different to how I was four years ago.
1:32.0	I was quite overweight. I was a smoker and a drinker and for me I found running and it saved my life really. It gave me the ability to express myself. It gave me the ability to, you know,
1:46.0	seek adventure and meet some amazing people and it's kind of brought me to where I am today.
1:52.0	Obviously having completed the
1:53.1	404 marathons that you mentioned before.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Ben Coomber, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Ben Coomber and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.