Ep 130 - Rhonda-Marie Parke on running the 500km Vol State Ultramarathon

Bad Boy Running

Jody Raynsford & David Hellard

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

4.7 • 539 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2018

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Jody and David once again speak to blind ultrarunner, adventurer and Stateside Do-Badder, Rhonda-Marie Parke (she got married!). She's back and talking about completing her latest challenge, the 500k Vol State Ultramarathon that runs through five states. Oh yeah, and she did it all UNGUIDED. There be much insanity in this episode. In this episode you'll discover: Why you DON'T want to cross the finish line of this race (you will literally die) Why lovely long open roads ...

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0:00.0	They're bad, they're boys, and occasionally they talk about running.
0:06.0	Yes, it's the Bad Boy Running podcast with your host, Jody Rainesford and David Heller.
0:13.0	Come back, baby, come back.
0:17.0	But a bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye.
0:20.0	I must admit I was a clown to be messing around. Come back Bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, hey.
0:35.1	How you doing, man?
0:36.1	I'm all right, man, how are you?
0:38.3	Yeah, well, good but broken.
0:40.3	Oh, you're...
0:41.3	Why are you broken?
0:42.3	Why are you broken?
0:43.3	Or is this just still part of the same brokenness?
0:45.3	No, no, actually, not nothing broken like that, but I've just come back from a weekend in Edinburgh for the festival.
0:52.3	Oh, how was that? Oh, it's so great.
0:55.7	It's just, I find it really odd because we've got friends in Edinburgh and a lot of
1:01.7	them say, you know, when you're a local, you don't go and do it.
1:04.4	Which, I get that when it's the London Eye or it's doing a boat going on a going down the canal in Venice but when it is
1:15.9	the best shows in the world that change every year and are only there for a month and there's
1:23.1	hundreds of them I just can't understand why people aren't there like why everyone doesn't go and people aren't there constantly. It's just so, so good. So fun. So I've had four days of being absolutely on it, but then also did a BMF class when I was there, which, because I haven't done BMF in a few months,
1:46.5	utterly killed me as usual.
1:48.5	And then ran with Steve Kernan from Hellweek, and he took me up for a run in the local hills,
1:54.9	which ended up being about 1,200 metres of ascent over 15 miles and yeah that was after about two hours
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