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Bad Boy Running

Ep 295 - How to run 95 marathons back-to-back with Alyssa Clark | The BBR Interview

Bad Boy Running

Jody Raynsford & David Hellard

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

4.7539 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Send us Fan Mail Most people chose to do something sedate during lockdown. Baking bread. Growing vegetables. Learning to paint. Not Alyssa Clark. She kicked off with a plan to run a few marathons back to back... and ended up running 95 marathons before we was stopped in her tracks by, yes you guessed it, COVID. In this episode, Jody and David speak with Alyssa to discover why she did it, the pressure of doing it - even outside of COVID - and whether she'd do it again. Enjoy! ...

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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 you have to leave town. Come back. So you do bad is we've got a treat for you. It's not often that I read an art from think, I want to get this person on the podcast, and then I message them, and then I say, hey, wait, don't we know each other? And they go, yes, we do. And then I found out they're also a doo banner. Who's epic, even without the story I've just read. So, to tell us, all of her stories of the epicness of today, which is an incredible story, welcome on the podcast. Alyssa Clark.ssa Cock. Way! Hey! Hey! Hey!

0:57.0

How you do? Thanks for having me. Good, good. I've honestly heard that, hey, so many times.

1:03.6

This is super exciting. It's for me this time. I'm so honored. Actually, someone was walking past

1:09.3

my window, just as I was like, yeah, yeah. I love that window just as... Ah, that was it.

1:11.3

Yeah, yeah.

1:12.6

I love that person.

1:13.8

But, you know, thanks so much for coming on.

1:18.5

What was your...

1:19.4

Because you were at the run show last year with 18 noir, ultra chocolate.

1:24.7

How come...

1:25.2

What's your link there?

1:27.4

Um, so I heard her on your podcast. Actually, that was it. And then I reached out and said,

1:33.9

hey, I have decided 2019, I live in Europe. My husband's military. So we travel a lot. I've spent,

1:41.6

we lived in Italy for two years. And then I've gone to grad school in Oxford a couple of times, and I went, all right, I'm going to look up the hardest ultras in the world.

1:51.0

What are some of the ones on the list that I can do?

1:54.0

Dragons Back and Tor de Jean.

1:56.0

So I signed up for both, somehow got into both.

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