If you cannot wrap your head around how you could ever run a 5K, I think you should walk one first to get your body used to just moving that.

Or like, if you can't run a mile or a half mile, just go for a walk and get that time on your feet.

Welcome to the Spartan endurance series on Spartan Up Podcast with host Johnny Waite.

Hey Spartan's Johnny Waite here, one of the hosts of the Spartan Up Podcast.

And today we've got an incredible guest, Brennan is an ultra marathoner, a climber, a

writer, a great all-round endurance guy.

And the question I asked him is, why would somebody even bother to get involved in endurance

sports and how do they get started? So if you've ever asked... somebody even bothered to get involved in endurance sports,

and how do they get started?

So if you've ever asked yourself those questions,

this one's for you.

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Hey Spartans, I'm really soaked. I'm here today with one of the radest guys I know, even though he calls himself semi-rad.

This is Brendan Leonard. And Brennan, uh, you are a guy who sort of came across my writer a few years ago.

We got in touch and I've been following everything you've been up to ever since

and you've been up to some incredible adventures and the cool thing is that you're right about them yet you film them how did you first

get into endurance sports oh boy that's a good question I look at me just eating up all this dead air here.

Gosh, you know, honestly, I think long days in the mountains through like,

sort of peak bagging and rock climbing. I was really into

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