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Bad Boy Running

Ep 323 - Bruce Fordyce On How He Used To Be Crap Too, His First Comrades And Parkrun

Bad Boy Running

Jody Raynsford & David Hellard

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

4.7539 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2021

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Bad Boy Running, Jody and David speak with the Comrades legend, Bruce Fordyce. The episode covers everything from Bruce's inauspicious start, running at university and keeping his first journal right through to his first (and then many, many) Comrades and his involvement with Parkrun. Bruce also gives advice on what he'd do if he were a beginner run now. Enjoy! If you enjoyed this episode please SUBSCRIBE to get every episode delivered to you befor...

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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.

0:24.7

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

0:28.4

Come back.

0:28.6

I don't know why we didn't try and get Bruce on years ago.

0:32.5

Probably because we thought he wouldn't turn it.

0:34.1

We thought he'd turn us down.

0:35.5

And thankfully he hasn't.

0:36.6

So you no doubt know a huge

0:39.9

amount about Bruce already. But he's won comrades nine times, is it? Yeah. I don't know that.

0:48.2

Eight times, nine times. He's got to he had the record for the up, for the down. He brought

0:52.0

park run to South Africa and he's written a book about his diary. It's one for the up, record for the up for the down he brought park run to um to south africa and he's written

0:56.0

a book about his diary it's one for the up one for the down so we're going to talk about all those things

0:59.6

so welcome to the podcast Bruce four dice away thank you but i'm actually those are those are two old books I've written my newest book

1:13.6

and because those one for that one for the down are my diaries when I won and

1:19.6

oh so it's different down the only the only good thing that happened for me during

1:24.6

lockdown was I finally wrote the book that I should have written, which was for a novice runner, first timer, because they can probably relate to that better

1:34.3

because my first run as a novice, I had no clue that one day I would win the race.

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