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Bad Boy Running

Ep 32 - Running Afghanistan and Sierra Leone (Part 2)

Bad Boy Running

Jody Raynsford & David Hellard

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

4.7539 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2016

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Send us Fan Mail It's another BIG one! In this episode Jody and David discuss international marathons, talking about the challenges of running Afghanistan and Sierra Leone. Among the japery discussed is: Jody explains how he alienated the hotel staff in Sierra Leone (and how they got payback) David reveals how to stop a shark in its tracks… and the rules on stuffing animals David gets a subtle inkling there may have been some cheating on the Afghanistan marathon Enjoy! If you en...

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0:00.0

Yeah, I mean, that's the trouble with races abroad is the food situation, because I've been sick the whole 4x4 journey back.

0:11.8

You threw up, didn't you? Yes.

0:14.6

Horrific.

0:15.9

Yes, of course.

0:18.4

What was the thing?

0:19.8

You had to place a certain, within the race, didn't you?

0:25.3

In order for you to get more money for the street child, who you're running for?

0:30.4

Yeah, it was, so I'd done all these challenges, and I think we're doing an episode on charity at some point, but they'd been an accumulator where

0:38.7

people would pay me for each challenge I did, but quite a few guys had said, if you do them

0:44.7

all, I'll pay your bonus, or John Peterson, one of my friends, he'd said, for the first

0:50.3

challenge you get pounds, for the second challenge, times two, third challenge, times three, times four times.

0:56.2

And there were six challenges.

0:57.4

So actually, the last two, if I'd have got them, he'd end up owing about, must be what, 720 pounds?

1:06.2

Really?

1:07.0

Yeah, and I know he'd be good for it as well.

1:10.0

So Streetchild must have been doing everything possible to make sure that you hit that target.

1:16.4

I mean, they probably lost about two or three grand just from me being so ill.

1:23.1

Because I would have been top three, no problem, if I'd have just not been sick.

1:28.6

The whole...

1:29.6

And the trouble was, we had one bag of water for the whole journey.

1:34.7

And those bags had been transported in a diesel truck, because you could taste the...

1:40.5

You could taste the diesel fumes in the water.

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