Ep 95 - How to run Western States 100 with David Harvey

Bad Boy Running

Jody Raynsford & David Hellard

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

4.7 • 539 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2017

⏱️ 121 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail David Harvey talks us through how he lost a load of weight thanks to running. His main goal was to run the Western States 100 and, after a drunken night out, he woke up to find that he'd entered it unknowingly. After waving goodbye to the entrance fee, he got to training and tells us all about his preparation and his experience of actually running the race. Did sitting in a sauna help? Was lying in a river a waste of time? Is Jody going to run it? Most of those questions are ...

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0:00.0	They're bad, they're boys, and occasionally they talk about running.
0:06.0	Yes, it's the Bad Boy Running podcast with your host, Jody Rainesford and David Heller.
0:13.0	Come back!
0:14.0	Baby, come back!
0:17.0	But the bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye.
0:20.0	I must admit I was a clown to be messing around, but that doesn't mean that you have to leave town. Come back. Bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, I'm all right, man, how are you? Good, Good. Well, I've had a typical week, to be honest.
0:41.3	Ladies and... Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Jodie Reinsman. I'm with David Hellard.
0:47.1	This episode is a week late, simply because of logistical errors made by one individual. And from the stories
0:58.7	I've heard, logistical errors seem to be a theme of what happened last weekend. So, go ahead.
1:06.9	So, explain to the listener where you've just come back from.
1:13.6	Well, we were talking last week a little bit about crewing and how to crew what to expect.
1:18.6	And the fact that I hadn't really done it before. So I've been out to UTMB, which is the,
1:24.6	probably the most prestigious, potentially most prestigious, that or Western States kind of 100-mile
1:31.9	in the world, set in Chamonie.
1:35.5	They've got quite a few different races, they.
1:37.3	So a couple of my friends, Misha and Tom, they were running something called the CCC, which
1:42.8	is over 7,000 metres of descent with
1:47.8	102K of running.
1:50.9	So a crazy amount of hills.
1:55.8	Misha had given me air miles to fly out.
1:59.5	He was so keen for me to come and help him and I was
2:02.3	keen to join as well but there's a little bit more pressure on me thinking he showed
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