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Bad Boy Running

Ep 82 - How to win the Barkley Marathons with John Kelly

Bad Boy Running

Jody Raynsford & David Hellard

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

4.7539 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2017

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Send us Fan Mail In this BBR Special Jody and David talk to John Kelly, endurance athlete and the only finisher at this year's Barkley Marathons. John reveals his journey from not running to competing at Barkley three times until he finally achieved his goal of finishing, how he trains for Barkley and the mind games you go through when you're out on the course. David isn't subtle in trying to pump him for all the information he can about entering, while Jody sees many parallels with his 4 Lap...

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0:00.0

but a bit oh wait a minute do we do bad a bye on a special

0:04.4

oh i don't know i think well why not why i mean you can do bad a bye now

0:09.6

whatever you want in life but we do what we should do it's for specials we should

0:14.4

oh this is what we should do when we do specials we go back to sing in the theme tune again

0:19.2

because that was so popular when we first started.

0:22.8

That's how you know it's a special.

0:26.6

Pateau Banton style theme tune?

0:28.5

Yes.

0:30.9

Baby come bonbon, bonbon.

0:35.0

Do you want to do the voice ever while I sing it?

1:11.0

Baby come bonbon boom boom boom boom. Bum bombon. Baby, do you want to do the voice ever while I sing it? Baby, come, bong, bong, bough, bum, bong. I must admit I was a clown to be messing around. Oh, I thought you were gonna do the American voice. The whole, welcome to the bad boy running podcast. I thought you've been that guy. I'll do that bit. I'll do that. Carry on. Carry on. I'm still going. Baby come. Boom. Bon, bum. Baby come. Yes, their bed. Their boys. And they sometimes talk about running. It's your host. Jody Waynesford and David Hallard.

1:16.5

Wow, we singed with the music perfectly. That was amazing. It was almost

1:18.7

If we hadn't added that bit in the Starway said we were going to sing

1:22.6

it, I think people would have not even noticed.

1:26.2

They would have noticed that we hadn't played the theme music.

1:30.5

Well, we've just, we just had a post in the Facebook group by Ali Bailey,

1:35.0

where she's figured out the number of times we'd need to listen to Patto Banton in a week

1:41.8

to try and get him to number one.

1:44.6

And she thinks we can do it.

1:46.1

If we all listen to it 24 hours a day, seven days a week, we only need about 8,000 people doing that constantly.

1:55.7

So we're nearly there.

1:57.8

I mean, what we need to do, we need to start a movement.

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