Ep. 421: From Couch to 250k with Aidan Doherty & Blane O'Donnell
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2018
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Is it possible to complete Ireland's toughest endurance event with 10 months of training when you started from the couch? Well, Aidan and Blane are going to find out. Listen to their journey from the perspective of the trainer and trainee as they approach their biggest goal yet, The Race.
The Race is a 250 km unsupported endurance event across the rugged landscape of North West Donegal, Ireland. It involves 15km of kayaking, 166km of cycling, 5km of mountain running and 64km of road and trail running. All under 24 hours.
They're also documenting their journey to the starting line in the form of a podcast.
Check out https://couchto250k.simplecast.fm/ to hear more!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | If you're thinking about giving an endurance event a goal, |
| 0:10.8 | but you're not sure if you can do it, just have a go at it. |
| 0:14.3 | It'll change you no matter what happens and only for the better. |
| 0:18.6 | This is the Adventure Sports podcast brought to you by 180TAC. |
| 0:22.9 | Get out there and have some fun. |
| 0:31.2 | Hey, everybody, welcome to the Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 0:34.8 | We got a great episode for you today, but before we get started, I wanted to remind |
| 0:38.6 | you that if you'd like to become a patron of the show, you can go to patreon.com slash adventure |
| 0:44.5 | sports podcast. It's five bucks a month. It gets you access to a lot of extra content, and just think |
| 0:51.7 | of it as buying the show a couple coffees every month, a little way to give |
| 0:57.1 | back. |
| 0:58.0 | So we'd really appreciate if you took that step. |
| 1:00.5 | If you're already a patron, thank you. |
| 1:02.2 | If you're not, consider it. |
| 1:04.2 | Thanks. |
| 1:06.6 | Thank you so much for listening in today. |
| 1:08.5 | I have two gentlemen from Ireland, Aidan Dowardy and |
| 1:12.6 | Blaine O'Donnell, and they are doing something kind of unique. Aidan is the coach and Blaine is the |
| 1:19.7 | athlete and they've decided to go from couch to adventure race and not any adventure race. This is a |
| 1:26.3 | 250 kilometer adventure race and we any adventure race. This is a 250 kilometer adventure race, and we're |
| 1:31.0 | going to talk about how they're hoping to accomplish this, to get someone fit enough and |
| 1:35.6 | prepared for that kind of an athletic event. They have their own podcast where they've been |
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