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The Running Public

Episode 17: The Bear

The Running Public

Kirk Dewindt & Brakken Kraker

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

5691 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2020

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

Matt Novakovich is one of the most successful Obstacle Racers of all time despite not finding the sport until he was 39 years old. Today he details his life as an athlete, taking us on his journey from an undersized 9th grader to a man who has competed professionally in multiple endurance sports. Along the way we get a glimpse of his Alaskan training grounds, his foray into boxing, and his thoughts on a comeback at age 46.

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0:00.0

You're listening to the running public.

0:12.5

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

0:15.8

Get to the finish line faster.

0:17.4

That's right.

0:18.2

This podcast is for you guys, the running public. You're one of the

0:29.2

OGs, brother, and we've been reminded of that with the Spartan Rewinds that have been coming up.

0:34.5

Have you watched any of the Spartan Rewind videos they've been throwing up?

0:44.0

I have. Yeah, they're pretty cool. It's funny. It's funny how if I go back like six months ago or a year ago, my mindset was like, I, you know, that was pretty cool. I don't wish I could do it

0:48.3

again. But then when I rewatch the reruns, it's like, man, that was some freaking fun times.

0:51.7

And that was some pretty motivating, blessed opportunities, if you will, like, man, that was some freaking fun times. And that was some pretty motivating blessed opportunities, if you will.

0:56.3

Like, yeah, I mean, yeah, so it's definitely triggered that like, holy crap.

1:00.9

Like, that'd be pretty cool to go back two years ago or three years ago or it definitely

1:05.4

makes me ask the question of like, what do I need to do to get back to a certain fitness level

1:08.8

to come back one more time to like come

1:10.9

out some of these guys who are you know of course the pet peeves is when you hear him say about it's

1:17.5

way more competitive now than it ever was and you think you think I'd like to come back and just

1:22.1

do one race and you know get a top five or get a top three or or whatever, or have it be a really good one and win,

1:28.6

and then have him to say, oh, wow, he was still pretty good.

1:31.3

And we're just, you know, there.

1:33.5

But yeah, it's definitely lights of fire to watch those races.

1:36.6

It's been really interesting to look back and watch these through a new lens because the new generation doesn't know anything about the 2012 through 2015 sport

1:46.3

and the old generation is like reinvigorated by watching it. So we were thinking now that

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