Ep. 1049: Finding Gobi - Dion Leonard
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Dion Leonard's lifestyle was killing him. Weighing 250 pounds; Dion’s uncontrollable eating habits, heavy smoking and excessive drinking to hide the demons from his abusive and turbulent childhood were leading him to an early grave.
Dion’s iron will and innate ability to survive led him to become one of the worlds top ultra runners competing in some of the toughest and most extreme ultra challenges across the planets most inhospitable locations. One act of kindness would change Dion’s life forever during an endurance race in the Chinese Gobi Desert when a stray dog ran with him, forming an unbreakable bond that would become the ultimate challenge of overcoming adversity to achieve the unachievable.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports Podcast. I'm your host, Mason. Getting this week's |
| 0:11.0 | episode up just a hair late. I was out of town this weekend and life's busy. But we getting it up. |
| 0:19.3 | This episode is awesome. Dionne Leonard has an incredible |
| 0:23.7 | story. You might be thinking, what does finding gobi mean? Well, it all starts with him as a kid |
| 0:29.7 | and kind of the outback of Australia, small town, not really doing anything with his life, |
| 0:35.8 | and making a bet at a bar that changed his life forever. |
| 0:39.8 | Not only did he get in great shape and start running, which you'll hear more about that story. |
| 0:44.3 | I'm leaving out details so that he can tell it. |
| 0:46.6 | As he advanced in running and started running around the world doing ultras, he came across a stray dog, |
| 0:53.4 | and that dog is named Gobe. |
| 0:56.3 | And we are going to hear the story about finding Gobe. |
| 0:59.2 | It is full of twist and turns, full of adventure, full of, it's a movie. |
| 1:06.4 | In fact, it's probably going to be a movie here soon. |
| 1:09.9 | More on that as well, but this story is |
| 1:13.6 | nothing short of epic, and Dion tells it in such a great way. We only get into so much of the |
| 1:20.6 | story in an hour. There's only so much we can cover. So if you are interested in reading Dion's |
| 1:26.8 | highly popular and really well-selling book, |
| 1:31.6 | Finding Gobe, we're going to be giving away one copy of that book today. |
| 1:36.4 | And all you need to do is reach out to me, Instagram, email Mason at Adventure Sportspodcast.com, |
| 1:43.7 | Instagram, Adventure Sports Podcast, and just say, hey, |
| 1:46.6 | I want to find Gobi. If you do that in the next 48 hours, I will enter you into a pool of people, |
| 1:53.7 | and we will randomly select a winner to receive a free copy of finding Gobi. So if this interests you, |
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