How to Take On Massive Challenge (like running from Afghanistan to China) / ENDURANCE

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

From the border of Afghanistan to the border of China, the Running the Roof the crew traversed the Bartang Valley on foot! This journey took over 20+ months to plan, and is the epitome of delayed gratification.

Spartan Up Endurance Series host Johnny Waite interviews Jody Bragger, Jodie Gauld and Gabriel Ghiglione, who together, ran across Tajikstan as part of a friendly bet. The bet started in the dead of winter, where the crew picked a location on a map (blindfolded) and committed to running wherever their finger landed. The end result was a cross-country adventure that was made into a documentary, Running the Roof. In this episode you’ll learn:

-How to break a massive task into micro-projects

-What role visualization played in the Crew’s preparations

-Why it’s important to be a yes person

-How the Crew used game theory during the planning process

-How the film impacted the Crew’s lives

Learn more about Jodie, JB and Gabriel:

-RunningTheRoof.Com

-Watch the documentary: https://filmfest.banffcentre.ca/products/2020-21-world-tour-onyx-program

-Connect on social: @jodieGauld; @intrepid_sole

-Connect with Midnight Runners on social (@midnightrunners)

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CREDITS:

Producer: Ryan Warner

Hosts: Johnny Waite

Sr Producer: Marion Abrams

Transcript

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0:15.8	We were passing the border of Afghanistan, like literally it was a few meters away from us and it was sort of like, whoa, this is surreal, but the actual what we were planning to do like the actual project didn't really hit until we started stepping one foot in front of the other.
0:18.0	Welcome to the Spartan endurance series on Spartan Up podcast with host Johnny White.
0:24.0	Welcome to Spartan up podcast. I'm Johnny
0:26.0	Waite, one of the hosts of the Spartan up podcast.
0:28.0	We have another special endurance episode for you.
0:30.0	You want to talk about Golden Biggin, going forever.
0:32.0	I have three people here who took on a massive
0:34.8	project and we're going to get into that, but they spun a globe and they'd all agreed that wherever
0:39.4	their fingering it up, blindfolded on this globe, they to put it in the bench together and go there.
0:44.4	This episode of Spartan Up is brought to you by Honeystinger, made with organic honey and delicious ingredients.
0:49.2	Use the code H.S Spartan 2020 at honeystinger.com to save 30% off.
0:55.0	Welcome to Spartan Up Podcast. I'm Johnny Waite, one of the hosts of the
0:58.0	podcast. We have these special endurance episodes where we bring you people from around the
1:02.0	world to teach you how to go
1:03.2	faster, stronger, further longer. And we've got a great group. We've actually had them on recently,
1:08.8	we're having them back. They put together a film called Running the Roof, and it was about them running together across the country of Chijikistan and when they did that they didn't know where they were going to go. They spun one of them around, put his finger on a globe, and it landed on Chigestana country.
1:24.8	None of them had ever really heard of per se.
1:27.4	And but they committed they would run across it.
1:29.6	So we got into that in pretty good detail in the last one.
1:32.7	But what I want to talk about this time
1:34.4	is when you put together a project like that
1:38.0	and it is a bigger thing than just throwing on your shoes
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