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Bad Boy Running

Ep 526 | Born To Run 2 - Return Of The Mac - Christopher McDougall

Bad Boy Running

Jody Raynsford & David Hellard

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

4.7539 Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2023

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Have you ever charmed your way into love while chasing horizons on foot? Christopher McDougal, author of "Free to Run," joins us with tales that sprint through the intersections of romance and running. He recounts the serendipitous beginnings of a 25-year marriage, born from a temporary job swap and a proposal interception, against the backdrop of his life now in Hawaii. His approach to training—mixing hill sprints with long runs—might just have you rethinking the way you lac...

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0:00.0

It's Christopher McDougall coming back. We had to get him, guys. So welcome back to, well, welcome to Bad Boy Running. And we've just recorded with him. He's as fun as ever. But we go into what I was really surprised. Well, first we go about his move to Hawaii and finding out how he met his wife.

0:18.0

It's just really funny. We spoke about that for longer than we probably should have done.

0:22.9

But talking about the second book of Free to Run, really interesting, how he was,

0:28.5

is mentioning so many different aspects of what we're doing wrong in our and running

0:33.3

and how you can use the book to actually just ask yourself certain questions to figure out how

0:42.1

you can actually make massive jumps in your training.

0:44.9

One of the was simply just to think about if you're running fast enough.

0:49.5

And he spoke about some training sessions that are crazy doing, for example, hill sprints

0:54.4

halfway through a two-hour run and the impact of that.

0:57.9

So there was...

0:58.7

But your first run, for your first run that has been given to you as a program.

1:04.7

As a non-runner.

1:06.6

Yeah.

1:07.1

And quoting Zadapet, you know, he started doing 100-meter sprints to train for the marathon and stuff like that.

1:12.6

I mean, it's such a good episode as you'd expect.

1:15.3

So take it away, Nick.

1:18.0

They're bad, their boys, and occasionally they talk about running.

1:23.6

Yes, it's the bad boy running podcast with your host, Jody Rainsford and David Heller.

1:30.0

Come back.

1:33.0

Baby, come back.

1:34.6

But a bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye.

1:37.4

I must admit I was a clone to be messing around.

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