Ep. 1054: Running 5,000 Miles Around the UK Coast - Revisited - Elise Downing
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Running: Elise Downing on Becoming the First Woman to Run Self-Supported Around the UK Coast – From Crayola Costume Marathon to Record-Breaking Adventure and Her Best-Selling Book Coasting.
Originally published June 21, 2022
Elise is a runner, author and all-round outdoors lover. In 2016 she became the first woman and youngest person to run self-supported around the coast of the UK – an adventure she was completely unqualified for, as an unexperienced runner whose athletic career consisted of one horrendous marathon dressed as a Crayola crayon. She is the author of best-selling book Coasting, which tells the story of her adventure and aims to show others that you don’t need to be the best at something to achieve something big. You just have to be the one who does it.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 0:09.4 | Today we are doing a throwback episode with Elise Downing, who back in 2016 became the first woman and youngest person to run self-supported around the coast of the UK, an adventure by her own |
| 0:22.9 | admission she was completely unqualified for. She has a great book out called coasting. You can find it |
| 0:28.6 | in the show notes. There's a link to her socials as well. I really enjoyed this interview from a few |
| 0:33.4 | years ago and I hope you enjoy this revisit of it. So let's go ahead and dive in. |
| 0:44.8 | All right, folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. Today we have a really interesting |
| 0:50.3 | story that has a book that accompanies it that you probably heard in the intro. |
| 0:55.5 | But I want to welcome to the show, Elise Downing. Welcome. |
| 0:58.4 | Hey Mason. Thanks so much for having me. Yeah. So where are you coming from today? And is that home? |
| 1:03.6 | I'm coming from Bristol. I'm sitting in my flat, which is currently home, although I'm actually |
| 1:09.7 | moving in a couple of weeks. So probably the last |
| 1:12.4 | thing I record from my living room. Oh, really? Last thing you record. So a good thing? Are you |
| 1:17.7 | excited for the move? Yeah, I've actually, I've just bought a van and planning to spend the |
| 1:23.9 | summer being a bit more nomadic, I guess. So yeah, |
| 1:28.0 | putting my stuff into storage and saying goodbye to my flat for a bit. So yeah, |
| 1:33.0 | quite exciting. Is van life, like, is it really taken off in the UK? Because here in |
| 1:38.5 | the States, it's huge. You know, it's just so much land. How about there? Yeah, I think it does seem to have. |
| 1:45.6 | And I'm not really going to be doing completely full time. |
| 1:48.9 | And I also wanted to spend a bit more time back home with my family for various reasons. |
| 1:53.9 | So I'm going to be doing a bit of a mixture of both. |
| 1:55.7 | But yeah, it just seemed like a good compromise between still having like, I guess, a bit of a home, |
| 2:01.3 | some space and not being tied to, well, my flat and paying rent and stuff like that. So |
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