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The Running Public

Episode 64: Rea Kolbl

The Running Public

Kirk Dewindt & Brakken Kraker

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

5691 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2021

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

Slovenian National Gymnastics Team Member for 10 years Spartan Ultra World Champion 2x World's Toughest Mudder Champion 2nd Place at ECO Challenge: Fiji Undefeated at OCR Races 8 Hours or longer Bachelor’s Degrees in Physics and Astrophysics from Cal-Berkeley Master’s Degree in Science and Engineering from Stanford. This woman is one of the top endurance athletes on the planet but has taken the long, broken road to get here. Her story is incredible, as are the life obstacles she has overcome.

Transcript

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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.

0:28.7

So, Rea, you're busy adventuring every single day. It looks, it appears to me. I just went

0:34.3

before this interview, I went back and I scrolled through your Instagram to see like all the adventuring you've been doing. And so I feel like we're, we're gouging into

0:42.8

that time of your day by you talking to us. Actually, it's, it's disgusting and it's raining outside.

0:48.5

And I need a break every now and then. So this is perfect. Rea, I accidentally double booked today.

0:56.2

I had a meeting with a guy that I work with during this time.

1:00.7

And so I messaged him and said, hey, I'm so sorry.

1:03.1

And he said, priorities, losing out to Rea is all right for me.

1:07.2

But tell her to calm down and take an off day sometimes.

1:10.9

I actually do. And I have a coach and take an off day sometimes. I actually do.

1:12.6

And I have a coach that only asks me to do it once a month, so I love it.

1:16.7

But that's the perception of you out there is that all you do is attack and hammer and

1:22.3

attack and hammer every waking moment of your life.

1:26.0

Well, maybe, but I take it easy, like exercise-wise, sometimes.

1:31.8

I feel like you have gotten a handle on that throughout the years. I have wizened up.

1:38.3

You don't seem totally convinced. See, that's the problem when you have so many passions like you do is that there's always something that you want to go out and do, right?

1:50.2

So like an off day for you might not look like an off day for everybody else.

1:54.3

I'm working a different muscle group and I'm working it easy.

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