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Bad Boy Running

Ep 100 - Rat Race founder Jim Mee on OCRs and ultras

Bad Boy Running

Jody Raynsford & David Hellard

Runner, Sports, Leisure, Fitness, Ultramarathon, Marathon, Health & Fitness, Running Injuries, Running, Hobbies, Ultrarunning

4.7539 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2017

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Send us Fan Mail Here's the second part of the BBR interview with Rat Race's Jim Mee. If you've not listened to the first part, go back and listen first otherwise this ain't going to make much sense... It's been promised for LOOOOONNNNNGGG time, but here it is at last, the lads' interview with Rat Race founder Jim Mee. Jody and David dive into the world of Rat Race The guys speak to Jim about the state of OCR and why so many races are disappearing - and what seems to be taken their place ...

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0:00.0

journey on

0:01.9

so yeah plenty of innovation going on

0:05.6

and where do you come up with your ideas for these

0:08.9

are these things like that are suggested or do you sit down and brainstorm them

0:12.0

or do things emerge out of experiences you've had

0:14.6

I spend a lot of time sitting on the toilet looking at Google Jeremy

0:18.6

who doesn't

0:20.4

but some of us don't come up with races he's probably there right now lot of time sitting on the toilet looking at Google, Jeremy. Who doesn't? Who doesn't?

0:21.5

But some of us don't come up with races.

0:23.5

He's probably there right now.

0:24.8

He haven't got a camera.

0:27.2

Although I do believe that you have a very similar reason.

0:30.9

The way that you come up with races works like that, David.

0:34.6

It's normally when I'm drunk, I write something down and whatever I

0:37.8

think that means in the morning.

0:42.3

Yeah, we have a, you know, we have a kind of a team approach to it.

0:46.3

You know, someone brings an idea to the table.

0:48.3

We discuss it.

0:49.0

We look at it on various merits and decide whether it's worth working up.

0:56.7

And there's a small group of people that we've worked with over the years who you know really good at going out there and scratching the surface

1:00.8

of a location yeah and see the route will actually stack up so it kind of starts with that sort

1:05.5

of blue skies I wonder what if we did this you know the Hagerans Wall concept as a case in point

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