Ep. 909: From Couch to 250k - Revisited - Aidan Doherty & Blane O'Donnell
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
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Is it possible to complete Ireland's toughest endurance event with 10 months of training when you started from the couch? Well, Aidan and Blane are going to find out. Listen to their journey from the perspective of the trainer and trainee as they approach their biggest goal yet, The Race.
The Race is a 250 km unsupported endurance event across the rugged landscape of North West Donegal, Ireland. It involves 15km of kayaking, 166km of cycling, 5km of mountain running and 64km of road and trail running. All under 24 hours.
They're also documenting their journey to the starting line in the form of a podcast.
Check out https://couchto250k.simplecast.fm/ to hear more!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Before we jump in, quick note, we are still accepting applications for the adventure grant, |
| 0:05.5 | and we will be accepting them. |
| 0:06.7 | We've extended it to allow some folks to finish their application who've reached out until March 1st. |
| 0:12.7 | So you have until March 1st to apply for our three adventure grants. |
| 0:17.7 | Learn more in the show notes. |
| 0:35.3 | Thank you. Grants. Learn more in the show notes. Hey folks. Welcome to the Adventure Sports Podcast. I'm your host, Mason. This episode's coming |
| 0:40.2 | out as from 2018, so almost five years ago. Aiden and Blaine do something pretty crazy. You may have |
| 0:48.1 | heard of couch to 5K, where you basically go from, you know, couch potato, you don't do a whole lot to training for a |
| 0:55.5 | 5K. It's pretty popular. Well, Blaine and Aden are trying to see if it's possible to do the toughest |
| 1:03.7 | endurance event within 10 months of training, and that is a couch to 250K. They're going to find out. So if you would like to hear about |
| 1:15.7 | what this was like, this experiment, this idea of, you know, going all out, this is definitely |
| 1:23.0 | the Adventure Sports Podcast way, just freaking going for it. You're going to enjoy this episode. |
| 1:28.6 | It's pretty hilarious. |
| 1:30.6 | It's quite a crazy concept, but we like crazy on this show. |
| 1:36.7 | So big announcement coming next week with Monday's episode. |
| 1:41.2 | So be on the lookout in your podcast app for that episode. And if you haven't |
| 1:45.6 | already, we are actually extending the podcast or I'm sorry, the adventure grant to another week. So you'll |
| 1:54.7 | have another week to apply. It's not closing. It didn't close yesterday. It's closing next week. |
| 2:01.2 | So please apply. |
| 2:02.9 | Make sure you get the word out there. |
| 2:05.8 | And if you have an adventure, we're giving away $1,750 plus gear. |
| 2:11.0 | So don't wait, apply, and you might get it. |
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