623: Dean Karnazes | The Road to Sparta

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🗓️ 6 June 2017

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Dean Karnazes (@DeanKarnazes) may be most famous for running fifty marathons in fifty states in fifty days, but he's also a bestselling author who most recently published The Road to Sparta: Reliving the Ancient Battle and Epic Run That Inspired the World's Greatest Footrace. "We're so comfortable, we're miserable." -Dean Karnazes The Cheat Sheet: What drives someone to leave their secure corporate job and run a hundred thousand miles (so far) in a lifetime -- including three hundred and fifty nonstop miles through the desert? Why does Dean Karnazes believe comfort is overrated? How do modern marathons differ from the first one run by Pheidippides over two thousand years ago? Explore what happens to your body when you push it past limits you once considered insurmountable. Discover how to unlock your own inner strength to achieve extraordinary results. And so much more... Want to wash two loads and dry two loads of laundry at the same time? The new Wi-Fi enabled Samsung FlexWash and FlexDry washer and dryer pair can do it -- and you can get it now at The Home Depot! If you're a business owner, did you know your payments solution can be an engine for growth? Rethink payments with Braintree. Find out more at braintreepayments.com/forbes! Does your business have an Internet presence? Now save a whopping 50% on new webhosting packages here with HostGator by using coupon code CHARM! SmartMouth is the only activated oral rinse clinically proven to eliminate existing bad breath and prevent it from returning for a full twelve hours per rinse. Visit SmartMouth.com to get an in-depth, scientific analysis of how SmartMouth is able to deliver such incredible results! Free yourself from typing notes, reports, and documents by going with the transcriptionists we trust here at AoC: TranscriptionOutsourcing.net -- 99% or higher accuracy guaranteed! Find out more about the team who makes The Art of Charm podcast here! Show notes at https://theartofcharm.com/623/ HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! If you dig the show, please subscribe in iTunes and write us a review! This is what helps us stand out from the crowd and help people find the credible advice they need. Review the show in iTunes! We rely on it! http://www.theartofcharm.com/mobilereview Stay Charming! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	That was kind of ancient Greece's faster internet. They dispatched these runners to go gather
0:05.0	intelligence or disseminate information quicker than an enemy could get someone there on a horseback.
0:17.2	Welcome to the Art of Chombe. I'm Jordan Harbinger. On this episode we're talking with my friend
0:21.4	Dean Carnassus. He's run among other things 50 marathons in 50 states in 50 days. The travel
0:29.3	alone without the running would kill most of us. He's run over 100,000 miles in his life,
0:34.0	including 350 non-stop miles through a freaking desert. This guy is superhuman and we'll find out
0:40.0	why. We'll also discuss why comfort is overrated. Discover how to unlock some of our inner strength
0:45.1	to achieve extraordinary results. Much like his, I would imagine if you can label anything extraordinary,
0:50.4	those are it. And explore what happens to your body when you push it past any limits you'd
0:54.5	previously thought possible. Now let's hear from Dean Carnassus.
1:00.1	Did you run here by the way? I did. I feel like a whim. I had an event in Justin Herman Plaza
1:05.6	yesterday. So I ran here. I live in Marin. So it's like a 20 mile run. But I've got a 50 mile race
1:10.4	tomorrow morning. When you do before these big races, you kind of taper as they call it. So you don't,
1:15.0	you know, you kind of try not to do too much. At least most people for a week before the race,
1:19.3	me a day, a day, your body recovers in one day, essentially with normal humans to recover in a
1:25.7	week or something like that. Or yeah, it recovers pretty cool. I mean, you know, I went to
1:29.5	I ran 50 marathons and 50 states in a day. So I was wondering how that didn't kill you. Yeah,
1:35.9	I mean, people say, you know, I run one. I couldn't even get out of bed the next morning. How did
1:39.6	you do this? You know, 49 times in a row. And I don't know. It just I got up and ran and all
1:45.7	what? Yeah, it was 50 marathons, 50 states, 50 days, just traveling to the 50 states would kill
1:52.3	me without the running. That would have been exhausting enough. The travel was worse than running.
1:56.9	I have to be honest, especially in the western states, because they're so spread out. And I was in
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