Episode 36: Jon Albon

The Running Public

Kirk Dewindt & Brakken Kraker

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

5 • 691 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2020

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

IAU Trail World Champs. Skyrunning World Series Champion. 2x Skyrunning Extreme Series Champion. Ultra Skyrunning World Champion. 12x OCR World Champion. 2x Spartan Race World Champion. World's Toughest Mudder Team Champion. If is it a running race held off road, Jon Albon has probably won it. The craziest part of it all? Jon has had 2 broken bones in his foot for the past FOUR AND A HALF YEARS. Today he talks his journey from national level roller hockey player to world champion endurance athlete, his surgery and rehab during COVID, and his training philosophy.

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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.
0:30.1	Good morning, guys. Morning. Or afternoon, I guess, John, huh? What time is it where you're at?
0:39.4	It's just past five.
0:41.5	Oh, okay.
0:43.0	So you moved recently.
0:44.9	Yes.
0:46.0	Are we recording?
0:47.4	So should I, like, try and talk, like, really nice?
0:50.6	Well, you don't need to talk nicely at all, but...
0:53.8	All right, so, yeah, yeah, around like when
0:57.7	Corona hit, we kind of sat down and thought like, okay, we're stuck where we live now because
1:04.4	of like it was a bit of a lockdown and stuff. So we thought, do we actually like living here?
1:08.4	We were like, not really. So we just moved.
1:13.3	We like drove up to the Romsdalen, which is like a different area in Norway.
1:17.7	It's like seven, eight hours north of where we were before with bigger, steeper mountains,
1:24.7	better skiing and stuff.
1:26.7	We literally just like drove up here, lived out the van for a couple of weeks and found out it was absolutely amazing.
1:31.8	So then drove back down, shoved all our stuff in a van, drove up here and rented a place here and sold our place in Bergen.
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