Ep 298 - Dealing with failure with Mike Wardian - Spartan Games | The BBR Interview

Bad Boy Running

Jody Raynsford & David Hellard

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

4.7 • 539 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Mike Wardian is one of the world's greatest ultrarunners. Few can hold a candle to his when it comes to going long. Yet, on the muddy fields and tracks of the Spartan Games, Mike faced challenges he had never faced before. Although he experienced failure more times than he would normally do so in his athletic endeavours, his participation in the Spartan Games left a last impression. In this episode, Jody and David get Mike back on the podcast for a second time to talk abou...

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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.
0:24.6	But that doesn't mean that you have to leave town.
0:28.6	Come back.
0:29.6	And we've got a, we've got our next guest back on.
0:35.6	If you don't know his history, go and listen to that episode because he is actually an incredibly good athlete who's done some incredibly good things.
0:43.7	But he wanted to invite him on to just talk about probably his biggest failure the last 20 years in terms of athletic.
0:51.5	Because he took on a challenge which was definitely
0:56.0	tailored to be not for him
0:58.1	and it is more the fact the spirit and the gusto
1:01.1	and the good humour with which he took it all
1:03.4	but we wanted to talk to him just to really get the inside
1:05.9	scoop for what happened about the sparding games
1:08.6	so welcome back on the podcast. Mike, what it! Yay!
1:16.6	It's nice to be back on and like how do you top an intro like that? Other than to say that I've
1:24.2	failed way worse than probably I did at the Spartan games in the past,
1:29.1	but this is definitely in the top five for sure. So I think we're in the right place.
1:36.4	How did that come about with, when did you first hear that that was a concept?
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