Episode 43: Amelia Boone

The Running Public

Kirk Dewindt & Brakken Kraker

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

5 • 691 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2020

⏱️ 121 minutes

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Summary

Endurance legend Amelia Boone joins us for a must listen episode of race stories, injuries, comebacks and her personal struggle with a life long eating disorder. A multiple time world champion despite enduring setbacks and challenges that most people would never come back from, Amelia delivers a message that we all need to hear.

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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.
0:28.6	For the second time now in two weeks, I have had someone that didn't know who I was.
0:37.1	And this person asked if I was Robert Killian.
0:40.3	Oh.
0:41.3	Well, you both are bald, so...
0:44.3	And Caucasian.
0:45.3	But this one was confusing because usually it's at a race.
0:49.3	Someone will say, hey, good job, Killian.
0:51.3	Like, no problem, man. Do it for the troops.
0:57.0	But this time they were referred to me.
1:02.4	They received an email from Bracken Crocker, and then they logged in to a Zoom call hosted by Bracken and asked if I was Robert Killian.
1:05.5	Oh, that's amazing.
1:07.1	Did they seem disappointed?
1:08.6	The attention of detail would be a little bit off. Yeah,
1:11.6	it's not an eagle thing. I don't care if you don't know who I am. I haven't done anything relevant
1:14.7	lately, but... Join the club. And I would say you are, you are, maybe have done something a little
1:22.1	bit relevant recently, Amelia. You can't just brush what you recently did off? Now can you?
1:29.2	Oh, oh, at Biggs? Oh, at Biggs?
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