Episode 56: Stephen Menya

The Running Public

Kirk Dewindt & Brakken Kraker

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

5 • 691 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2021

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Born into extreme poverty in a small Kenyan village, Stephen survived and made his way to the US through running. One of the wildest stories of defying the odds you'll hear, Stephen is a shining example of what vision, hard work, and pure self belief can do for you, both as a human and as an athlete!

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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	Do you know that in the 11 years that I've been with Lions Gym and with Stephen
0:34.1	Omandi, Unanunganga, Mena, that I have never heard him swear once in 11 years.
0:40.4	Good for him.
0:41.6	Now one thing that already I can see that Bracken is doing, he keeps self-adjusting.
0:48.7	Do you know that that is so dangerous? Now, I know you've heard this before, but I'm coming
0:54.0	from love. You know? You're talking this and this? know you've heard this before, but I'm coming from love, you know.
0:55.2	You're talking this and this?
0:56.6	Yeah, the constant.
0:57.8	I feel like I'm watching what do you call,
1:00.7	Van Klondau, whatever his name is, Klondow,
1:03.5	Vin, Glendout, John Klondow.
1:06.0	Jean-Claude Van Damme?
1:07.2	Yeah, that's him.
1:08.4	I feel like I'm watching him because he does that, you know, self-adjust,
1:12.1	but he's got that Asian medicine going for him. So anyway, I'll see. That's the best compliment you've
1:16.6	ever given me. That's the first thing he's ever said to you back in. That's the best compliment
1:24.8	anyone's ever given me that I'm, I remind him of Jean-Claude Van Dam.
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