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Ten Junk Miles

Bonus Episode 3 - Mini Interview with Scotty and Jim Sweat

Ten Junk Miles

Ten Junk Miles

Running, Sports, Comedy, Improv

4.91.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2016

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Join Scotty as he sits down with Hardrock legend (11 attempts) Jim Sweat.  Jim has been running ultramarathons for THIRTY (30) years.  Jim is a testament to persistence.  An amazing guy with an amazing story of trying, and trying again!

 

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And then 10 Jump Miles. 10 Jump Miles.

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10 Jump Miles.

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10 Jump Miles.

0:20.0

10 Jump Miles.

0:22.0

10 of Miles. 10 miles. I'm talking to miles.

0:24.0

That's on miles.

0:28.0

Right, I'm talking to the first person that I found that was willing to talk to me, Jim Sweat, who I ran with last year and he's a 11-time hard rock

0:41.0

D&F. Participator.

0:44.0

Jim, tell me a little bit about your relationship with this race.

0:50.0

When's the first time you ran it and how long have you been doing it?

0:53.2

I've been doing this I think for the past I did it the first year and I've done it

1:00.0

most years some years I haven't been able to make it, but I'm kind of a, you know, borderline

1:07.0

finisher on this. So some years I can do all three days, other years I can do maybe the first

1:12.2

and the last day.

1:14.0

Have you come every year since then?

1:16.0

I think I've missed a couple of years for various reasons.

1:20.0

Now I met Jim last year running the race.

1:24.0

Some of the listeners know that my dream is to someday run the Hard Rock 100.

1:29.0

There's some people coming in that's the cheering in the background.

1:32.0

And I was fascinated when Jim told me

1:34.9

that he has DNFs the Hard Rock 111 times, which is a record that I think

1:39.7

could never be broken by anyone and it struck me that this is a person that's been around for a long time and done a lot of

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