Chris McDougall: Why Should Runners Care About Parkour?
Run to the Top Podcast | The Ultimate Guide to Running
RunnersConnect: Coaching Community, Running Experts, Inspiring Runners, No Fluff Blog
4.5 • 936 Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2016
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
After a career in international journalism, Chris, who is fascinated by the human body, wrote Born to Run, an international bestseller that is being made into a movie starring Matthew McConaughey.
His most recent book, Natural Born Heroes, is a national bestseller. Chris is a fascinating speaker, and I'm sure you will love every minute of today's episode.
Some of the topics that we cover include:
● What Chris has been up to since the last time we talked, about a year ago.
● Lessons Chris has learne [...]
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| 0:00.0 | I think to me the orientation point is not that I need to eat this today because I mean |
| 0:04.5 | chased by you know German soldiers but I need to eat this today because I want to |
| 0:08.8 | feel good when I'm 85 years old and still mountain climbing. |
| 0:18.0 | Welcome to the Runners Connect Run to the Top podcast where it's all about learning from the best and most inspiring minds in the sport. |
| 0:23.0 | So together, we can train a smarter, healthier, and faster running community. |
| 0:29.0 | Now, here's your host, Tina Muir. |
| 0:32.0 | Hello. host Tina Muir. Myur. Hello, this is Tina Muir. |
| 0:36.0 | Thank you so much for joining me for the latest episode of the Ranners Connect Run to the Top |
| 0:40.3 | podcast. |
| 0:41.3 | So last week we talked to Ted Gillette and he shared his |
| 0:44.8 | inspirational journey of initially fleeing Ethiopia during a 1970 civil war to |
| 0:51.5 | becoming one of the world's best masters runners and recently he became a |
| 0:55.3 | political figurehead. That's quite a story right there. So today if you've been a long |
| 1:00.6 | time listener you probably have heard my interview with one of the best |
| 1:05.4 | known running influences in the world. |
| 1:08.6 | So Chris McDougal is who I have on the show today. |
| 1:12.0 | So if I listened to that previous episode, |
| 1:14.2 | which I did to make sure I did not ask the same questions, |
| 1:17.7 | I cringe because I just sound so robotic |
| 1:20.6 | and I apologize. |
| 1:22.0 | I did get a lot of comments about that at the time, but I guess at the time I didn't understand what that meant. |
| 1:27.0 | So either way, it was a fun conversation and he was just so easy to talk to. |
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