4.8 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2018
⏱️ 80 minutes
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If there is one throughline in the arc of 33-year old Guillaume Calmettes' life is that his pursuits are not done at half-speed. From his former life as a skydiver to his academic achievements to his now ultrarunning career, Guillaume has always sought to live out his potential in all endeavors. His greatest challenge awaits as he gets ready to toe the line at the infamous Barkley Marathon.
:: Katie Grossman's Ultrarunning Magazine article on Big Dog: https://ultrarunning.com/featured/one-more-hour-guillaume-calmettes-245-832-miles-at-big-dog-backyard-ultra/
:: Big Dog Ultra Strava: https://www.strava.com/activities/1246374847
:: Last Big Barkley Workout on Strava: https://www.strava.com/activities/1445828953
:: Guillaume's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gcalmettes/
:: Girlfriend Pauline's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pauline_baking/
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0:00.0 | I mean that changed my you know relationship with how I was seeing running too I mean I became |
0:11.5 | really interested into okay I need to find my limits now. It's another kind of running. You know it sounds boring and I understand that some people cannot understand why would someone do that but when you're part of it and when when you do it |
0:26.9 | you discover how beautiful this event is. It's all about running for running. |
0:33.0 | Nothing else. |
0:35.0 | Hello everyone, welcome to another episode of the Billy Yang |
0:40.0 | I'm your host Billy Yang and thank you for coming back to yet another episode. |
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1:20.0 | Without further ado let me introduce you to Guillaume Calmet. |
1:23.6 | He is somebody who is a local here in Southern California, |
1:26.8 | although judging quickly by his accident, |
1:29.0 | you will know that he is not a native. |
1:31.5 | Guillaume and I met several years ago now, |
1:34.8 | and he has continued to add to his now very impressive resume, |
1:40.0 | and including this weekend when he tackles on a little race in Tennessee at |
1:47.0 | frozenhead State Park a race that was introduced to the zeikgeist by a documentary of the same name, The Barclay |
1:56.3 | Marathon, The Race that eats its young. It was a fun documentary and |
2:00.8 | insightful documentary and, dare I say, inspiring as off used that word is. |
2:08.0 | Guilla is a super interesting guy, he's an intelligent guy, good-hearted guy, and as he will need this coming weekend, he's also |
2:17.4 | a very mentally tough guy as you will hear a little bit more about in this coming episode. |
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