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Bad Boy Running

Ep 544 | TBS - Is the Barkley Marathons too easy?

Bad Boy Running

Jody Raynsford & David Hellard

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

4.7539 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail With Jasmin Paris's incredible feat in becoming the first woman to finish the Barkley Marathons, we ask the question no one is asking: Has the Barkley Marathons become too easy? If that's not the most clickbait headline you've seen on a running podcast for a while, we don't know what is. Love the podcast and these videos? Buy us a beer! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/badboyrunning Join the Bad Boy Running Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/badboyrunnin...

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0:00.0

Do bad as well, to the bad stuff. We've just finished recording this week, of course, talk about a Chatham Parish of the Barclay and try and compare that to, should we compare it, and how does it compare to Camille to Courtney? What are these performance? How do they stack up against each other? We also talk about whether the Barclay's lost its edge slightly because of the fact that ever goes around

0:22.4

in the group these days. And it's so different from the original challenge. And do they need to

0:27.1

change the rules because of it? We also then talk about how there are some new races that are

0:32.3

clearly being designed to try and be quirky, to try and get clickbait and how we feel about these, whether

0:39.8

we like them because they're new and they're coming up with something ingenious or whether

0:43.2

we just think, God, you're trying too hard, you're doing it for the wrong reasons.

0:46.8

That's on the bad stuff, guys.

0:48.3

Take it away, Nick.

0:50.6

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

0:56.1

Yes, it's the Bad Boy Running podcast with your host, Jody Rainsford, and David Heller.

1:02.4

Come back!

1:05.5

Baby, come back!

1:07.1

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

1:09.9

I must admit I was a clone to be messing around, but that doesn't mean that you have to leave town. Bye bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, hey. Jay, Jay, Ray, Ray, Jay, David, how are you doing? I'm good, thank you. How are you?

1:29.0

All right. I'm a bit... Final week in Asia now. We're in Hanoi.

1:32.0

Just arrived about half an hour ago, an hour ago or so.

1:35.7

So, good, good.

1:37.7

Still, my fitnesses.

1:39.5

Left them to unpack, deal with everything while you do the important stuff

1:43.6

recording this episode.

1:46.3

The nation needs us. The world needs us. Exactly. Exactly. We've come to it. It's an emergency.

1:53.3

It's breaking emergency when Jasmine achieves Berkeley. That's it. And that's, you know, we've

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