EP 602: G.O.A.T. Frank Hart 1870s
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Trail Runner Nation
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🗓️ 16 December 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Frank Hart rose to fame, popularity and wealth in the 1870 as one of the first African American athletes to break the color barrier as an ultra runner.
Davy Crockett, the host of the podcast, "Ultrarunning History" joins us to tell us this amazing story of Frank Hart and the early popularity of pedestrianism.
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Davy has run over 100 100-mile finishes since starting in 2004. He is a race director of the Pony Express Trail 50 and 100 in Utah and was recently named Director of the American Ultrarunning Hall of Fame.
You can learn more about Davy and his many works at Ultrarunninghistory.com
Check out our earlier episode with Davy about the history of EP 556: The History of Ultrarunning
If this episode was interesting to you, you might like the episode we did on "Pedestrianism" two years ago.
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| 0:00.0 | You know, he was a hero in the race. |
| 0:03.5 | People, you know, back then the tradition was your favorite runner in the race. |
| 0:08.8 | You'd buy a bouquet of flowers for them and then present them on the track to them |
| 0:14.5 | as they're running around. |
| 0:15.7 | He got so many when he finished, it would have taken a couple wagon loads to take all |
| 0:21.2 | these bouquets and floral displays with him. |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome back to the trailhead of trail runner nation where we go on virtual trail runs |
| 0:42.6 | with interesting guests that help us learn a little bit about our history and how to be |
| 0:48.1 | better runners and hopefully how to be better people in general. |
| 0:53.0 | If this is your first time, guess what? |
| 0:54.8 | There's plenty of room on the trail, lace up your shoes, let's get her going. |
| 0:59.2 | It's going to be a good one today, today we're going to learn about an African American |
| 1:03.0 | that broke through the color bearer and became one of the first black sports superstars |
| 1:07.7 | and you're probably thinking about Jackie Robinson, but we're not talking about Jackie |
| 1:12.2 | Robinson because this happened 70 years before him, boy, this is going to be a good one. |
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