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Bad Boy Running

Ep 189 - The story of San Quentin prison's running club with Frank Ruona

Bad Boy Running

Jody Raynsford & David Hellard

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

4.7539 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2019

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Send us Fan Mail Frank Ruona has been the San Quentin 1000 Mile Club’s volunteer head coach since 2005. The volunteer coaches, under the leadership of USA Track and Field-certified Frank, run the workouts and competitions for inmates in the infamous prison. In this episode Jody and David speak to Frank and discover more about running life behind bars and how the club was formed. As the idea of running as a form of rehabilitation spreads, Frank assists other prisons in creating their own long-...

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0:00.0

They're bad, they're boys, and occasionally they talk about running.

0:06.6

Yes, it's the Bad Boy Running podcast with your host, Jody Rainsford, and David Heller.

0:13.0

Come back.

0:16.0

Baby, come back.

0:17.6

But a bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye.

0:20.4

I must admit I was a clown to be messing around

0:24.4

But that doesn't mean that you have to leave town

0:28.2

Come back

0:28.9

Bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye

0:31.7

Hey

0:32.6

How you doing, enjoy the race with?

0:34.6

I'm all right David Hellard

0:35.8

I am very echoy today.

0:38.5

I just say you held back there because you're so echoey.

0:42.7

Yeah, and it's actually echoey to me to the extent that it's quite distracting,

0:49.2

as if I'm on stage like a rock band and then someone's in my ear or something.

0:53.7

So I don't know how it sounds for you now

0:56.0

you get a taste of what it's like listening to you on the podcast yeah i mean wow wow this is

1:04.5

really annoying yeah listening to me once isn't great let alone having to do twice every time

1:10.3

oh god i hate i hate it when you can hear your own voice it's awful isn't great, let alone having to do twice every time.

1:13.5

Oh, God, I hate it when you can hear your own voice.

1:14.6

It's awful, isn't it?

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