Adam Popp: Embracing Challenges and Breaking Records - R4R 418
The Running for Real Podcast
Tina Muir
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Adam Popp’s life changed when he lost his right leg above the knee while working to disarm a roadside bomb in Afghanistan. He also lost his sense of purpose, until he started running. 19 months after taking his first step on a running blade, he became the first above-knee amputee to complete a 100-mile ultramarathon. After that, the records kept falling; he now holds seven Guinness World Records and is aiming to set more next month while running 24 hours on a treadmill.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Running For Real, a global community with a shared love and curiosity for running. |
| 0:15.0 | Together we reconnect with the reasons why we love to run |
| 0:20.0 | and discover ways it helps us become better people. |
| 0:23.0 | Whether it's the quiet moments of a morning run while the rest of the world still sleeps, |
| 0:28.0 | or befriending the strangers next to you at the start line of a race, |
| 0:31.0 | we are here to connect with others who see running as the common |
| 0:34.8 | thread that leaves our lives together. Come join me, Tina Muir, as I talk with people |
| 0:39.8 | from all walks of life, united by a love of running. |
| 0:44.7 | Hello my friends welcome to episode 418 of the running for a podcast. Thank you |
| 0:52.2 | for joining me today. I am excited that you are here and wow did I learn so much from my guest today. They are someone I didn't actually know of until a few weeks ago and I am grateful for one of my closest friends, |
| 1:05.8 | Michael Clemens, for introducing me to Adam Pop. Adam has set almost too many world records to count over the years. |
| 1:17.0 | He has done so much over the years to show that runners who are amputees, runners who have disabilities can continue to get |
| 1:28.6 | out there and do something important for themselves and push the boundaries of doing it. You're going to hear me talk about or ask |
| 1:35.6 | Adam about his 257 marathon, which is something he has recently done, running in world |
| 1:40.8 | championships, running 100 miles, 50 miles, all kinds of races and events and ways of pushing himself as an amputee. |
| 1:49.0 | But before we get to that, we actually talk about the difficulty of getting to the point of getting out the door. |
| 1:55.6 | Because while he lost his leg in 2008, it took him quite a while to get going and actually give running a try. |
| 2:04.9 | And we're going to talk about that part too, that sometimes we just need a bit of a processing period |
| 2:10.3 | to get to a place where we can try something for ourselves and that being in that place is okay. |
| 2:17.0 | So without any further ado, I want to introduce you to Adam Pop. Let's go meet him. |
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