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This is Love

Gobi

This is Love

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.79.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In June of 2016, Dion Leonard attempted one of the toughest races in the world—155 miles through the Gobi Desert. At the start of day two, he looked down and saw a little brown dog chewing on his shoes. Dion and the little dog were about to embark on an adventure that would change both of their lives.  Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2BmMZr5 We also make Criminal and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop.  Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

0:07.0

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,

0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong.

0:31.2

When Dion Leonard is training for a race, he says he sets up two large industrial heaters in his spare bedroom.

0:37.0

He wears the warmest clothes he has and puts on a backpack loaded with 15 pounds of rice or sugar, and then he sets the treadmill

0:46.0

incline as high as it can go and runs for hours.

0:51.4

He does this to train himself to run ultramarathons in extreme conditions like through

0:57.1

China's Gobe Desert. In June of 2016 he took three flights and a long train ride from Edinburgh, Scotland to a remote

1:06.4

part of Northwestern China.

1:08.8

He says he remembers feeling exhausted before the race even started. The first day he ran 25 miles. On the morning of day

1:17.2

two he was gearing up to run 25 more.

1:20.3

And I remember looking at my bag to make sure that everything's zipped up and the chest straps are done up tightly and I'm looking down and making sure that I'm ready to go and I look down and I see this little dog chewing on my shoes and I start to yell out to

1:38.3

the hundred other runners at the race and the race organises.

1:42.2

The dog was skinny and small, some kind of light brown terrier that didn't look like it had been bathed in a long time.

1:50.0

It had skin problems. No collar. No one had any idea where the dog had come from.

1:55.3

People said it had to be astray.

1:58.0

Dion was there to win a race, 155 miles over seven days, with your food and water and supplies on your back, one of the

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