Ep. 866: Icelandic Traverse, Gone Wrong - Aum Gandhi
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Running: Aum from Quarter-Mile Start to Pro Trail Runner for Merrell – Iceland Crossing Attempt, Breaking Limits, Unhealthy Past to Thousands of Miles, Inspiring Change via Richstone Family Center. Aum is an endurance athlete who started his journey four years ago after deciding to go for a quarter mile run day after work. From running a quarter mile to going longer and longer distances, Aum has traveled many thousands of miles on this journey. Once unathletic and unhealthy, Aum is now a Pro Trail Runner for Merrell. Although breaking perceived limitations and failing big motivates his desire to change lives through his collaboration with the Richstone Family Center, which gives him strength in these long distance.
He recently set out to run across Iceland, but things did not go to plan…
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, folks, welcome to the adventure sports podcast. I'm your host, Mason, feeling a little under the weather. so my voice sounds a little different right now, |
| 0:21.3 | but this episode was particularly inspiring to me. |
| 0:26.3 | Om Gandhi is doing something pretty cool. |
| 0:29.4 | He is doing some crazy ultra-marathons, and this idea was to get the FKT for the Icelandic traverse, literally running across Iceland, which we know is a pretty treacherous environment and landscape. |
| 0:45.1 | We recently did an episode of someone biking across Iceland, and it was crazy to hear some of the stories and how rugged it actually is in the inner part of Iceland when you get |
| 0:55.3 | away from the rim road. But Am's story is so cool because he was incredibly out of shape, not a runner |
| 1:01.5 | at all, and just one day got home and said, I'm tired of it and went for a run and ran like a |
| 1:07.8 | quarter mile. Body's hurting, body's sore. A couple days later decides to do it |
| 1:12.0 | again. And now he's running like 200, 250, 3, 4, 500 mile ultramarathons. And it inspired me so much that |
| 1:23.2 | the night that this came out, or the night that I interviewed him, I went home and went for a run, |
| 1:27.4 | which I don't often run. I, you know, my knees hurt. I often stick with cycling, but I was like, |
| 1:31.3 | you know what, I'm going to go for a run. And I ran a couple miles, and I was like, I need to do this more. This was awesome. So I've been running since this episode, that recorded episode. So I hope it empowers you the same way. |
| 1:42.5 | I don't know what it was about Om's story. |
| 1:44.1 | It just really was impactful. |
| 1:46.1 | I hope you enjoy it. |
| 1:47.2 | So let's go ahead and jump in. So I hope it powers you the same way. I don't know what it was about Om's story. It just really was impactful. |
| 1:46.1 | I hope you enjoy it. |
| 1:47.2 | So let's go ahead and jump in. |
| 1:53.3 | Hey, folks, you heard a little bit about Om's Story and the intro, but I want to welcome |
| 1:58.5 | on to the show. |
| 1:59.2 | How you doing? |
| 1:59.8 | Welcome to Adventure Sports |
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