Ep. 175 ~ Jenny Tough, Adventure Athlete & Writer
Bikes or Death
Patrick Farnsworth
4.8 • 563 Ratings
🗓️ 29 February 2024
⏱️ 155 minutes
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Summary
Jenny Tough is one of the most impressive adventure athletes I've had the pleasure of chatting with. Her accomplishments in sports and writing are truly inspirational and mesmerizing. She is an ultra runner and bikepacker with numerous accomplishments to her name. Among her accomplishments, in the running world she was the first person to run across Kyrgyzstan solo and unsupported. Following that trip she set out to run across 5 other equally challenging terrains in different parts of the world. In total she complete 6 runs in 6 continents over a 6 year period which she chronicled in her latest book SOLO.
If that isn't impressive enough, during that time she was also introducing herself to the bikepacking world by entering, and winning, some of the most challenging bikepacking races in the world. In 2018 she won the Silk Road Mountain Race (SRMR) and followed that up with a win at the Atlas Mountain race in 2020, before going back to SRMR in 2021 and winning again. By any measure Jenny lives up to the name "Tough" and in doing so she is finding was to inspire and motivate others. She has made it her mission to not only do tough things, but to encourage others, especially women, along the way through her writing and creative outlets.
It was an honor to have her on the show and I hope your enjoy this chat as much as I did!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends and welcome back to the Bikes for Death podcast. As always, my name is Patrick, |
| 0:05.0 | and I'm your host. And on today's episode, I am speaking with Jenny Tough. Jenny is an amazing |
| 0:12.9 | human, an exceptional adventure athlete in both the ultra running and the bike packing world |
| 0:19.6 | and a fantastic writer. |
| 0:23.1 | On today's episode, we are going to be talking about some of her numerous accomplishments |
| 0:28.2 | in both disciplines of her adventure career, as well as her latest book solo, which |
| 0:35.9 | chronicles her running across six different continents over a six |
| 0:40.6 | year time period. I thoroughly enjoyed this conversation. Jenny is a fascinating and impressive |
| 0:47.8 | human being, and it was an absolute pleasure to have her on the podcast. But before we get to that |
| 0:53.8 | episode, let's take a moment to thank the people |
| 0:56.3 | that made it possible, starting with our latest patrons. So this week, we would like to thank |
| 1:02.4 | Rob McCarty and Esker Cycles for signing up to be sustaining members of the Bikes for Death |
| 1:09.3 | podcast. These episodes aren't possible without support from the community. |
| 1:15.1 | And so if you would like to help support our work, you can find out more over at patreon.com |
| 1:20.8 | forward slash bikes or death. |
| 1:23.6 | And today's episode is also brought to us by my friends over at Old Man Mountain. Eric from Old Man Mountain, |
| 1:29.9 | welcome back to the Bikes for Death podcast. It's a new year and we've got some new and exciting things to |
| 1:34.9 | talk about. So thanks for coming back on the show today. Yeah, thanks for having me back. Great to talk to you. |
| 1:40.3 | As you said, we've got Axelpack this year coming out in just a week. |
| 1:45.0 | Axel pack. A new product, shocking. Y'all are rolling out products faster than we can |
| 1:50.5 | create mini pods to keep up with them. But I expect that we'll be doing many more to |
| 1:56.2 | highlight all the products as they come out. But this is an exciting one that comes with an exciting offer exclusive for Bikes |
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