6: Kirk DeWindt - Got To Be Stronger
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🗓️ 24 February 2017
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Carrie goes for a run with personal trainer Kirk DeWindt! They discuss Kirk's life since appearing on 'The Bachelorette', how to train for Spartan Races and other obstacle course events, and Kirk's expansive personal training business.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by State of Run. |
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| 0:19.7 | Hi, I'm Olympian Carrie Telethson, and welcome to the C-Tolly Run podcast. |
| 0:24.6 | Today I'm interviewing Kirk DeWint, and you guys might remember him from Alley's season on The Bachelorette, |
| 0:30.2 | but he's also an amazing athlete. He was an All-American in track and field and competes in Spartan races |
| 0:35.7 | on a national and world level. He has a degree in |
| 0:38.9 | exercise science and nutrition and is one of the top Twin Cities personal trainers. So I always |
| 0:44.2 | love chatting with him. Let's get after it. So tell us what's going on. What's up with Kirk DeWint? |
| 0:53.6 | Oh, like, in my life? Yeah, just just like whatever. I mean, we're starting this run here in Brooklyn Park. North side of Brooklyn Park. Way in the burbs. I'm living the burb life. That's good. Yeah. It's beautiful out here. You got a ton of trails out here? We're going right. I don't want you to get hit by a car in this. Yeah, no. So what's going on with me? Yeah. I'm still running my personal training business. Okay, and where is that? That's in Robinsdale. Another suburb, just north of Minneapolis. Yeah. Staying very busy with that, and then I've picked up a new sort of endeavor with, you know, my athletic and competitive side. |
| 1:28.5 | Yes. |
| 1:29.5 | Spartan racing, which is like a great combination of strength and run endurance. |
| 1:34.5 | So between work and that, I've been staying busy. |
| 1:37.2 | So you're training, like, full time for OCR now? |
| 1:41.3 | Yeah, I've made the conversion from being a true runner to kind of, you know, |
| 1:46.3 | playing around in the mud a little bit. Okay, so like, what's your training week like? Like, |
| 1:52.4 | how many miles a week? I know you said your ongoing shin injury is still bugging you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 1:58.5 | Full swing, I'm probably, I'm probably running just about 60 miles a week. |
| 2:04.6 | 60 miles, so how do you do it all in one, one a day or two days or what? |
| 2:09.6 | Yeah, so the interesting thing about doing an obstacle course racing is you got to be strong. |
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