EP 483: John Kelly Breaking Records While Maintaining Work & Family Balance

Trail Runner Nation

Fitness, Sports, Running, Health & Fitness

4.5 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

John Kelly is only the 15th person to finish the formidable Barkley Marathons since its creation 24 years ago. Since then he has finished many of the toughest races in the world including the Laverado Ultra Trail and the Tor des Geant. Last year John moved from the U.S. to England and began tackling the amazing EU trails. This spring, before the pandemic, John won the Spine Race, a 268-mile, 39K elevation route following the Pennine Way National Trail in Scotland. As races were cancelled, John decided to try and break the 31-year-old FKT for the Pennine Way.

We talked to John about his

successful FKT (subsequently bested by friend, Damian Hall 8 days later)
What is a Bog?
His ambitious attempt at the Hartley Slam, named after Mike Hartley, the only person to complete all three of the Rounds consecutively.
Balance: with training, young family and startup business

Follow John's adventures at RandomForestRunner.com, where he will post a link on how to follow his Grand Round attempt

John is running to raise funds for the Stephen Lawrence Trust, founded to tackle inequality in all forms. Please consider donating

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Path projects has a new short that's out called the Sykes AT.
0:09.2	It's a five inch short.
0:10.4	It's based on their very good selling Sykes PX short, but it's almost 40% lighter.
0:17.9	Don, you ran in this for a hundred miles.
0:20.2	Tell us about it.
0:21.2	I had to look down a couple of times to see if I had shorts on, Scott.
0:24.6	These things are incredibly light.
0:26.8	I mean, they could fly away with a small breeze, and not only that, they stretch.
0:31.8	They breathe.
0:32.8	They're everything that you'd expect or want a short to be.
0:36.8	I was impressed, and I can't wait to put them on again.
0:40.5	And like all of their shorts, it has that center back pocket for a phone.
0:45.6	Even the larger phones, I know that they've made that a little bit bigger, so they fit
0:49.4	the larger phones.
0:50.6	Has two small side pockets that are really nice and an internal key pocket that you can
0:55.6	use.
0:56.6	And great thing about those pockets, you put it in there and forget about it.
0:59.8	You have to almost reach back to see if it's still there because you don't feel it
1:03.4	bounce.
1:04.4	I don't know how they did that.
1:05.4	Not only did they make the short light, but they made your phone and key light too.
1:10.4	Go to pathprojects.com and check out the Sykes AT five inch short, or you can go to our
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Trail Runner Nation, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Trail Runner Nation and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.