Ep. 840: Running 5,000 Miles Around the UK Coast - Elise Downing
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2022
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Elise is a runner, author and all-round outdoors lover. In 2016 she became the first woman and youngest person to run self-supported around the coast of the UK – an adventure she was completely unqualified for, as an unexperienced runner whose athletic career consisted of one horrendous marathon dressed as a Crayola crayon. She is the author of best-selling book Coasting, which tells the story of her adventure and aims to show others that you don’t need to be the best at something to achieve something big. You just have to be the one who does it.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, welcome to the adventure sports podcast. My name is Mason. Sorry about getting the episode up a little late. We had a lot going on this weekend. First of all, Father's Day. I'm a father of two, if you don't know, and they're little. First Father's Day with two kids, which is awesome. It was my birthday on the 20th. So that was another thing we were celebrating. And also, it's a holiday on the 20th because of June 10th. So a lot of us were celebrating something this weekend. |
| 0:38.5 | And for me, it was, you know, tripling up, honestly. |
| 0:41.4 | But anyway, let's go ahead and jump into this story. |
| 0:43.4 | Elise's adventure starts when her life in London, in the city of London, was not going |
| 0:49.2 | how she planned. |
| 0:50.5 | And she decided to do something to mix it up, take 10 months off, quit her job essentially, to literally run a lap around the UK. |
| 0:59.1 | She stayed along the coast, did this solo, had a backpack, and ran 5,000 miles around the UK. |
| 1:09.3 | Unbelievable adventure. |
| 1:10.5 | I mean, this is a classic, epic, solo adventure sports |
| 1:14.8 | podcast story. And Elise wrote an incredible book that ended up becoming a Times bestseller of |
| 1:20.1 | 2021 called Coasting. It's very different, very raw, very just open and honest and funny |
| 1:26.6 | about her experience out there. |
| 1:28.8 | I encourage you to check it out. |
| 1:30.7 | Just talking about the highs and lows of the experience and how she did it, how she just |
| 1:34.4 | had basically the guts to get out there and do it. |
| 1:37.1 | So it comes from a very cool, adventurous family. |
| 1:40.4 | But, you know, sometimes we need to discover that on our own for it to be real to us so I encourage |
| 1:45.5 | you to check out her book find it anywhere you get books but you know there's some links in the |
| 1:50.5 | show notes of where you can find it yeah let's go ahead and jump in and welcome to the show again |
| 1:54.3 | happy you're here all right folks welcome to the Sports podcast. Today we have a really interesting story |
| 2:05.5 | that has a book that accompanies it that you probably heard in the intro. But I want to welcome |
| 2:11.1 | to the show, Elise Downing. Welcome. Hey Mason. Thanks so much for having me. Yeah. So where are you |
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