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The Running Public

Episode 108: Leon Kofoed

The Running Public

Kirk Dewindt & Brakken Kraker

Sports:running, Running, Sports, Health & Fitness, Fitness

5691 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2022

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

The multiple time European OCR champ is in the midst of a comeback from a devastating leg injury. Hear him talk his progression as a runner, his love of training, and his painful journey back to the top!

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to the running public.

0:13.1

From marathoners to mud runners, we all have the same goal.

0:16.6

Get to the finish line faster.

0:18.3

That's right.

0:19.1

This podcast is for you guys, the running public.

0:28.9

The Fire Monkey, yes.

0:31.5

I found out the Argentinians called me El Mono de Vuego, and I found out that I started

0:36.9

trying to learn Spanish after i broke my leg

0:38.9

and i asked an argentinian fan if she wanted to help me out by teaching me online and uh during the

0:45.1

first course she she picked it up and she was like el mona de fuego and i was like i don't know what

0:50.1

it is what is it and it turns out it's fire monkey and then i've been trying to hold on to that

0:55.1

because i find it's really god damn cool like it's really cool but okay a monote d'fuego because um

1:01.8

because i am apparently uh really good at obstacles of suspension so like ricks basically

1:10.3

did you speak a lick of Spanish before this last year?

1:14.6

Not a single word.

1:16.6

I had issues with, like,

1:19.6

Vamos at La Playa.

1:21.6

I was like, is it really what it is?

1:23.6

I had questions for that.

1:24.6

I only had German in school and Swedish and Norwegian, of course, because if you're Danish,

1:29.2

you've got to know the Scandinavian languages as well.

1:31.2

So I had German for a few years, felt comfortable enough to, like, read German.

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