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The Running Public

Episode 23: Ryan Atkins - Part 1

The Running Public

Kirk Dewindt & Brakken Kraker

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

5691 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2020

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

From World Champion Unicyclist to World Champion Ultra Runner, Ryan Atkins has made a living out of finding unique sports and mastering them. In this episode he details his rise as an athlete, his unique ability to recover between herculean efforts, the difficulty/honor of being a 5x World Championship runner-up, and what lead to his early 2020 race success.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to the running public.

0:13.2

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

0:16.5

Get to the finish line faster.

0:18.3

That's right.

0:19.0

This podcast is for you guys, the running public.

0:28.9

Ryan, look at that flow. Holy cow, you're growing your hair out, huh? Yeah, it's almost as long as

0:33.2

your beard. Uh, not quite. This is three months' work. It's been pretty nasty. I'm getting the old food

0:41.2

and the beard stage. I ate lunch yesterday and I was at home and my girlfriend came home like an hour

0:46.7

after I'd finished lunch and I still had some lunch in my beard and I didn't even realize it.

0:51.2

So I got to get to work on that.'s not good this is my question is what what

0:58.4

house are you at i saw like you have a house now back in canada you have a house uh in the northeast

1:05.9

which houses are you which how many houses you have these these days, Ryan? So we have three houses.

1:13.1

We have, like, our house in, uh, near Toronto that we used to live in.

1:17.2

It's actually, it gets rented out now.

1:19.0

So, um, we don't ever go there anymore. Um, and then our main place is here in

1:26.3

Quebec, which is like, yeah, our main spot.

1:30.0

And then I've got a house down in the Adirondacks, which is like kind of a project house.

1:33.7

It's like renovating it.

1:36.1

And yeah, it's only like two hours away from us here.

1:39.9

So it's like a little bit of a cottage slash like training center.

1:44.1

But we can't get there right now

1:45.1

because the borders are still closed so that's frustrating because i suppose don't you spend

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