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Bad Boy Running

Ep 168 - John Ellis on the Hong Kong trail running scene

Bad Boy Running

Jody Raynsford & David Hellard

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

4.7539 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2019

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

Send us Fan Mail BBR travels halfway around the world in this episode to discover more about the Hong Kong trail running scene. Jody and David speak to John Ellis, the Aussie-born Hong Kong-based trail running legend who somehow manages to juggle his desk job with hitting what are some pretty horrific/wonderful trails Hong Kong has to offer AND running his own sports brand Gone Running. In this episode, we discover: How John manages to handle running so many races on back-to-back weekends...

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0:00.0

David, my calves are so tight.

0:04.7

Have you been running?

0:06.6

Yes, yes, I have been running.

0:09.5

So, well, we're meant to do an evergreen podcast, advert.

0:13.5

Well, we can use it on any podcast, but if you're submitting to running, this is, this is going to be like a biannual.

0:19.8

This is very funny. That's very funny indeed.

0:22.3

Get off and explain how I can help my tight calves. So do baders, if you've not heard our very

0:30.1

overly long and bad introduction of the pulse roll. Postulse roll! Pulse roll!

0:38.1

We on Pulse roll.

0:40.5

We are at the running show, national running show, and we were walking around just to

0:46.2

seeing what cool things were.

0:47.9

There were quite a few cool things, most of them we knew, and then we saw the pulse roller,

0:51.8

which is basically a vibrator the size of king Kong um

0:58.0

it's not a vibrator it's a vibrating roller within within a foam roller so you cut me off short

1:08.2

i'm not sure that that's how it's developed. I'm not...

1:11.8

I'm reading out.

1:13.0

A load of vibrators and then we put a phone roller over the top of it.

1:17.3

Exactly.

1:17.8

That's basically what they've done.

1:18.8

So instead of you, if you've ever tried to roll your muscles, which is often quite

1:24.7

annoying and painful, one of those things that you never end up doing because it's just a bit of a fath.

1:29.1

You have to position yourself and then put your whole body weight on stuff and it's just a bit

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