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Bad Boy Running

Ep 50 - Running the Marathon des Sables (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

🗓️ 13 May 2016

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Today’s episode is the second of three parts which covers the MdS the Bad Boy Runners talk about David's experiences on days 2, 3 and 4 and they discuss the coolest finish to a race ever. Enjoy! If you enjoyed this episode please SUBSCRIBE to get every episode delivered to you before everyone else. Join the conversation! If you want to request a guest or chat about this episode with like-minded drunk runners then head over to the Bad Boy Running Podcast Facebook group...

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome back. This is part two of a two-part episode. So if you haven't listened to the first part, make sure you scroll back. Or this might not make all that much sense to you. There will be a separate third episode to round off the MDS analysis episodes. So if you want to be notified of when that is available in the future, then be sure to subscribe.

0:22.9

But for now,

0:24.5

enjoy part two.

0:34.0

Seriously, it can't be that time of the week ago.

0:34.8

It is.

0:37.3

It's the Bad Boy running podcast with your hosts,

0:39.6

Jody Wainsford and David Hellar.

0:49.2

It's amazing. The amount of footage and the amount that they film people in the photography and stuff, yet try and spot a Brit in any of them.

0:55.2

Yeah, it's true.

0:56.1

People were scouring the photos, you know, try and find you and stuff.

0:59.6

It's like, we found one of him walking.

1:02.6

Yeah, and that was it.

1:05.5

Oh, that's one of the first message I got from Danny is he said,

1:10.1

oh, great news.

1:30.8

There's a picture of you with Jason, and I can't remember Jason's surname. Apparently he's a famous ultra runner. Famous American ultra runner. I said, and yeah, can't believe you're running. I can't believe you're with him. He's amazing. He's blah, blah, blah. Bad news, though, you're walking. Oh, wow. Oh, well. But yeah, we finished day one. And, you know, I felt I'd done, I felt I'd run it really well. I felt I'd run it almost perfectly.

1:40.9

Yeah. In terms of when I pushed, when didn't and it was really i thought fuck that was

1:46.7

harder than i was expecting but everyone was saying that was the hardest first day we've ever

1:53.4

had um they extended the cutoff time by an hour so many people didn't make it through day one

1:59.2

that you were thinking okay they wanted to put down a marker

2:03.6

but day two should be fine yeah that's what you yeah what's okay so before we go to day two

2:11.1

what was sort of the mood in camp then so everyone was like it was it like a yeah yeah you let me know

2:16.8

a mixture of elation that the first

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