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The Running Public

Episode 308: Mark Batres Part 2

The Running Public

Kirk Dewindt & Brakken Kraker

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

5691 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2023

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

The last time we chatted with Mark he was building towards his 2021 season. Since then, he’s found his calling in Ultras, won a world championship, and lost a full championship season to illness. Let’s dive in!

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.

0:28.8

Mark and I had a chance to see each other in catch up two weeks ago-ish in SoCal. It was really

0:34.2

nice to see you there and catch up. And Bracken doesn't know why I want to talk to you today, actually.

0:40.5

So, I mean, I'm sure you could figure it out, Bracken, but we were talking, Mark.

0:45.5

I don't know, we were kind of warming up.

0:46.9

We chatted both days.

0:47.8

And you'd said a few things.

0:48.8

I was like, Mark, we need to record this.

0:51.8

We need to talk about this. Well, because I had asked you, first of all, you were like with the kids race and you were like

0:57.6

the leader of the kids race and teach, show them the kids through the warm up and being like

1:02.0

such a good disciple of like the like the children's or leader of the children's sort of

1:07.2

aspect of Spartan race and Spartan kids.

1:09.7

And then I'd ask you, well, Mark, you missed WTM due to, I mean, you were urinating

1:16.1

blood and you had to miss the biggest event of your year.

1:20.9

And then we had gotten to a conversation about trials and tribulations and all of it.

1:24.9

And I was like, man, we just got to talk about this stuff.

1:27.6

So it was like, we interviewed you, Mark, what was it, two years ago, year and a half ago?

1:32.7

And we haven't, something like that?

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