Ep 274 - Surviving a bear chase with Rachel Smith

Bad Boy Running

Jody Raynsford & David Hellard

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

4.7 • 539 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2021

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Rachel went for a casual run on the Big Otter Trail, a trail she knows well and had run many times before. Unfortunately, on this one occasion, she encountered a mother bear protecting her cubs. The bear chased her and Rachel only escaped when she eventually found a tree to climb. With the bear intent on continuing the pursuit, Rachel was forced to spend the night in tree in cold temperatures, with no light source, food, or water. Thankfully, the following day the bear had ...

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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, but that doesn't mean that
0:26.6	you have to leave town.
0:28.6	Come back.
0:29.6	We've got a story for you that we, we someone like, sometimes like to tell a story of someone
0:35.6	who's really encountered something
0:37.7	just exceptional on trail there's what it's it's summed up fairly easily and that rachel was
0:45.5	chased by a bear and had to deal with that overnight so we've got on the podcast welcome to
0:51.4	the podcast the lovely rachel podcast, the lovely Rachel Smith. Yay!
0:56.0	How you doing?
0:58.5	Good, thank you.
1:01.0	The lovely intro.
1:03.1	Well, I mean, let's start for the beginning, shall we?
1:08.6	I mean, what's your relationship with running prior to this?
1:14.6	I started running competitively in seventh grade,
1:19.6	joined the cross-country team at my high school,
1:22.6	and our high school was super small,
1:24.6	so was me and two other girls.
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