Episode 28: Ryan Kent

The Running Public

Kirk Dewindt & Brakken Kraker

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

5 • 691 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2020

⏱️ 123 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Ryan Kent has been a at the top of the OCR scene for the past 6 years, but 2020 has been unlike any other year for him. With the pandemic making it impossible to earn a living through race results, Ryan has reinvented himself. Working full time, with his first baby on the way, he is in the best shape of his life and ready to unleash that fitness upon the first race that re-opens. Today we touch upon balancing training and work, eating disorders and racing weight, his training philosophy, goals for the 2021 season, and what life will look like for him now that he is going to be a dad.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

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.
0:28.8	This squad cast is like the most confusing. This is like every other interview, Ryan,
0:34.4	we deal with some sort of issue and it's my fault. I should send like an
0:37.8	instruction email beforehand. That's what I need to do. Well, I probably, if I had more time,
0:42.5	I probably would have read through the email to see some of the instructions. But we just left
0:47.3	the hospital, got home and opened the email and just click join the session. And then I was like, oh crap, it's not compatible with iPhone.
0:58.0	And we literally just bought a laptop just the other day, like a couple weeks ago when I was
1:03.0	trying to get this UPS job.
1:05.0	And before that, man, dude, I did everything on my phone.
1:09.0	So learning how to use a computer again is like it's like
1:12.0	going back to school well you have the dad's stash going so dads aren't good with technology you know
1:17.0	no so dude it's it's it's time maybe let's you okay you're just coming from the hospital yeah yeah
1:25.3	yeah so my girlfriend has given me admission to to say this,
1:29.6	but we are, we are 13 weeks pregnant right now. Your boy's going to be a dad.
1:35.4	What? I feel like the stash is a little appropriate. Yeah, man, I'm super, I'm super excited. I was
1:43.1	really nervous at first, kind of scared, but then it kind of like, actually, I was in denial, to be quite honest with you.
1:51.8	I was like, we need to take more pregnancy tests.
1:54.3	I think we bought out the Walgreens.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Kirk Dewindt & Brakken Kraker, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Kirk Dewindt & Brakken Kraker and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.