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The Food For Fitness Podcast | Nutrition | Training | Lifestyle | Healthy Living

FFF 115: Running The Marathon de Sables: Sun, Sand & Scorpions - with Brian Keane

The Food For Fitness Podcast | Nutrition | Training | Lifestyle | Healthy Living

Scott Baptie

Nutrition, Musclegain, Loseweight, Cycling, Fitness, Running, Weighttraining, Health, Gym, Fatloss, Sportsnutrition, Motivation, Health & Fitness

4.6634 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

This week we're chatting with Brian Keane who's just completed The Marathon De Sables - a multiday ultra-endurance foot race in the Sahara Desert. The 6 day event requires athletes to cover around 254 km with individual stages varying in length with the longest day around 91 km. Aside from the extreme temperatures which can range from ~50°C in the day to ~5°C at night, a further challenge is that competitors are required to be largely self-sufficient and must carry all their own food and equipment for the event.

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0:00.0

Are you tired of falling off the proverbial fitness bandwagon?

0:04.0

Join us as we share simple, realistic and above all, achievable weight loss advice,

0:09.0

based on evidence gathered from helping hundreds of people look, feel, move and perform better.

0:15.0

You don't need to starve yourself or hop on the latest fitness craze.

0:18.0

We'll show you how the smallest change can give you the largest impact.

0:23.0

It's now time for the Food for Fitness podcast with me, your host, Scott Bapty.

0:30.3

You're listening to episode 115 of the Food for Fitness podcast, brought to you by

0:36.0

foodfor fitness.com.

0:45.1

I'm your host, Scott Bapty, and we are continuing the theme of talking about incredible challenges.

0:55.5

So last week on episode 114, we're chatting with Ben Smith about the 401 challenge, which is when he ran 401 marathons in 401 days.

0:58.9

If you're not listened to that one, go back and listen to the previous episode.

1:05.6

And this week, we're chatting with Brian Keane, who has just completed the Marathon de Sabae.

1:13.6

And if you've not heard of that, it's basically six days of running marathons throughout the Sahara desert. And to make it even harder, you've got to carry all your own stuff. So all your own food,

1:18.7

your sleeping bag. It's self-sufficient. It's quite a grueling feat. So in this episode,

1:24.9

we'll chat with Brian about how he did it. Now, Brian has a similar sort of background to me.

1:29.7

He did all the sort of fitness modeling and, you know, natural bodybuilding and all that kind of thing.

1:34.7

So he is not a runner.

1:36.3

So before he did the marathon de Sabaer, before he started training for it, he hadn't done any marathons.

1:41.6

He hadn't run longer than 5K before.

1:43.9

So it's all about,

1:44.9

first off, why did he decide to do it? How did he do it? Looking at his preparation.

1:49.9

And we'll look about really learning about the experience itself. He talked about sandstorms

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