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The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

How to Bring the Power of Running into your Life / Joe De Sena & Dean Karnazes

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7870 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Today Joe De Sena celebrates running with Dean Karnazes, author of Run, of Ultramarathon Man, and of the new book "A Runner's High."

Karnazes is an internationally acclaimed ultramarathoner and New York Times best-selling author. He was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World and is a recipient of the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition Lifetime Achievement Award. He’s run 50 marathons, in all 50 US states, in 50 consecutive days. He’s run across Death Valley in the middle of summer, he’s run a marathon to the South Pole, and on ten separate occasions he’s run a 200-mile relay race solo.

Find out what drives him to run, his advice for getting started, for nutrition and the ideal time of day to run.

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LINKS

More about Dean & His Books https://ultramarathonman.com/books
Dean K on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/Ultramarathon

Spartan Trail series https://race.spartan.com/en/race/trail

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CREDITS:

Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.

Host: Joe De Sena

Sefra Alexandra, Johnny Waite & Colonel Nye will be back soon, we miss them!



© 2021 Spartan

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0:00.0

And I was in a bar in San Francisco on my 30th birthday, you know, doing with a lot of guys doing on the 30th birthday.

0:05.0

And at midnight I told my buddies I was leaving and they said, you know, where are you going?

0:10.0

It's midnight, it's your 30th birthday. Let's have another round of the Kila to celebrate and I said

0:14.1

now I'm going to run 30 miles right now to celebrate instead and they looked at me and they said

0:19.0

but you're not a runner you're drunk and I said yeah I am drunk but I'm still going to do it.

0:25.8

Welcome to the Spartan Up podcast with Joe DeSena, founder and CEO of Spartan Race

0:37.0

We are talking about overcoming obstacles. The same way we teach people to get over obstacles on the course, we will teach you here

0:42.3

on the Spartan up podcast to get over

0:44.4

obstacles in your mind. Today Joe's celebrating running with Dean Carnassus,

0:49.3

author of Run, Ultra Marathon Man, the New Book, A Runners High.

0:54.4

Find out what drives him to run, his advice for getting started,

0:57.6

for nutrition, and the best time of day to get your run in.

1:00.1

This episode of Spartan Up is run in.

1:08.0

This episode of Spartan Up is brought to you by the Exigen ultrasound bone healing system. If you were a loved one has a broken bone, talk to your doctor about exogen.

1:12.0

Exigen is indicated for the healing of non-existent. bone talk to your doctor about exogen.

1:12.5

Exigen is indicated for the healing of non-union fractures

1:16.4

and for accelerating the healing of certain acute fractures

1:19.6

with no contraindications.

1:21.5

To learn more, visit exogen.com.

1:25.0

E X O G N dot com.

1:27.0

Dean Carneses here on Spartan Up Podcast,

1:32.0

I'm Joe Descenta, founder and CEO of Spartan and we got this

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