Daniel Fairbrother - FRIDGE MAN!
RunPod
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🗓️ 28 March 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
You don't get a better friend than today's incredible RunPod guest, Daniel Fairbrother.
Daniel's best friend Sam has Type 1 Diabetes, so to raise money for Diabetes UK Daniel is attempting to break the world record for "the fastest marathon while carrying a household appliance".
This is where we introduce you to 'Tallulah' the name he's given to the Fridge which he's strapping on his back and running The London Marathon with!
Named after his favourite film 'Cool Runnings', Tallulah has caused quite the media surge so we had to get her in the studio - even if security were suspicious!
Daniel started running after his divorce, as a way to find balance and clear away his stress.
It's had a huge positive impact on his health, and Daniel believes that running is 70% about mentality and 30% about physicality. If anyone is going to get you running today, it's a guy with a fridge tied to his back. Think he needs to carry a cold beer in there for the finish line!
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of RunPod is sponsored by M&S, where you can shop all your favorite sportswear brands. |
| 0:08.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:14.8 | Hello there. Welcome to another episode of Run Pod. I'm Jenny Faulkner. And do you know what? I just love hearing from you, |
| 0:22.5 | the Run Pod Run Club. On my Instagram, I often get messages from listeners or members of the |
| 0:27.6 | Run Pod Run Club who are listening whilst training for a race, maybe listening whilst on a long |
| 0:32.8 | training run on a Sunday, or listening to find the motivation to get up and get out there. Well, if ever |
| 0:39.3 | you needed motivation, then this is the episode for you. Let me tell you, because today's |
| 0:44.8 | guest, well, we'll make you realize that you've got it easy. And that is the simplest way of |
| 0:49.3 | putting it. Please welcome to Rumpod, Daniel Fairbrother and Tallulah. Hi. Thank you for having us. |
| 0:55.0 | Oh, thank you so much. Thank you so much for coming in. I mean, look, Tallulah, running, everything aside. |
| 1:01.5 | It's very nice to meet you because we've been speaking through social media. |
| 1:04.8 | I have, yes. And I've been going, Daniel, will you come on Run Pod? And you said yes, which was amazing oh i bit your hand off you know it's just an amazing opportunity |
| 1:12.4 | thank you for having me here um a podcast is something i've always wanted to do and you know tie that in |
| 1:17.7 | with running i'm always down for that have you been a runner for a long time so i sort of dabbled with it |
| 1:22.8 | when i was 16 for a little bit but it sort of never really went anywhere my friends used to take |
| 1:27.4 | the mick at me when they saw me running around my local village they'll try and chase me it sort of never really went anywhere. My friends used to take the Mick at me |
| 1:27.9 | when they saw me running around my local village, they'll try and chase me, that sort of thing. |
| 1:31.3 | And I just sort of fell away from it, really. And then I picked it back up two and a half years ago. |
| 1:35.7 | And I've sort of gone from not being a runner to signing up to a half marathon, which was a Cambridge |
| 1:40.5 | half marathon, to doing another half marathon, and then just sort of leapfrogged everything and went into Ultras. |
| 1:45.6 | So running is your thing. |
| 1:46.9 | It is at the moment, yeah. |
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