Ep 325 - The 16 Year Old Who Finished The MdS With Anna Kroijer | Marathon Des Sables

Bad Boy Running

Jody Raynsford & David Hellard

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

4.7 • 539 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Is 16 years old too young to run the Marathon des Sables? Well, it doesn't matter what you answer because Anna Kroijer has done it. In this episode, David speaks with Anna about her experience and handling what others say about her achievement. Enjoy! If you enjoyed this episode please SUBSCRIBE to get every episode delivered to you before everyone else. Join the conversation! Suggest future guests, wallow in your malaise or offer your unsolicited opinion on running issues ...

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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	I've just been an awful, awful presenter.
0:31.6	We've already done about half of our interview and I realised I hadn your press record and that has not happened in
0:38.3	oh wow so if Anna sounds a little tiresome it's because of me so apologies to Matt but our next
0:46.8	guest we've mentioned it for the last few weeks that we were hoping to get Anna on because
0:50.4	a friend of the podcast Mark Mennie he he mentioned that his friend's daughter had just been the youngest female to ever finish the MDS.
0:59.8	So we wanted to get her on to find out how their experience was and also to get a sense of what it was like out there and in what would probably be known as the toughest MDS of all time, given the dropout rate.
1:13.2	So, well, with the podcast once again.
1:15.3	Thank you very much.
1:26.4	Oh, hello, hello. How are you doing? I am all good, thank you.
1:28.3	Well, nice to be warmed up, aren't we? Yeah.
1:29.3	Well, what's a good place to start then?
1:33.3	I guess if we go back to where this idea first came from, because, well, first, how old are you?
1:40.3	And at what point were you aware of what the MDS was?
1:43.3	Yeah, well, I'm 16 and I became aware of the NDS when, so my dad did it in 2014.
1:53.6	And I've always heard about it from him.
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