Ep 133 - How to run The Dragon's Back Race with Huw Jack Brassington

Bad Boy Running

Jody Raynsford & David Hellard

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

4.7 • 539 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2018

⏱️ 142 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Bad Boy Running, Jody and David speak with Welsh ultrarunner and adventurer Huw Jack Brassington about his many race experiences, including The Ultra Gobi and Welsh ultra The Dragon's Back race. Huw completed Special Forces Hell Week and is also a former Team GB Triathlete (sshhh). Huw has been the subject of a film on his Dragon's Back experience (you can watch it on iPlayer if still available (https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p06cm3cs/ar-gefn-y-ddrai...

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0:00.0	F-a-f-you buddy
0:01.6	They're bad, they're boys, and occasionally they talk about running.
0:08.8	Yes, it's the Bad Boy Running podcast with your host, Jodi Rainsford and David Heller.
0:15.2	Come back!
0:18.3	Baby, come back!
0:19.8	But a bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye bye bye bye I must admit I was a clown to be messing around but that
0:27.5	doesn't mean that you have to leave town come back bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye
0:34.1	Hey
0:35.1	How's it going man? I'm all right. How are you? Uh, yeah. Yeah. I say, yeah, just because we've had a little chat and you've made me really pumped, but I've been injured. Oh, no. No, not injured. No, go on. Which one is it now? Um, just a little one. Well, so I am off to the, is it the Ute of the
0:58.4	Faroe Island Ultra at the weekend? The Faroe Island Ultra. Yeah. Whose event is that? That is
1:06.2	same organisers as Love Trails. Right. And it's interesting, actually.
1:13.3	They, I think, I don't know why they, I think they probably thought, right,
1:16.5	why's the nearest place as the crow flies that doesn't have an ultra run?
1:22.1	And they went, oh, the Faroe Islands, that's kind of close if you're there, like, taking a hovercraft.
1:31.5	On the Ferro Islands, the place where they do that hideous, like, whale killing thing.
1:38.4	They kill, like, loads of whales within, like, a 24-hour period and stuff.
1:42.4	It's almost like a festival type thing.
1:44.5	Oh, no, you know about that.
1:45.9	Yeah, I'm sure that's like all over Facebook,
1:48.5	literally like about two or three weeks ago.
1:50.5	And I think that's the fairer while Isles, isn't it?
1:52.9	Yeah, I only found that out about three weeks ago.
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