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Billy Yang Podcast

Jason Koop | BYP 041

Billy Yang Podcast

Billy Yang

Billyyangpodcastantonkrupickamotivationinspiration, Sports, Running

4.8903 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2019

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

What's it like to run 200+ miles while climbing over 80,000 feet in the mountains of Italy? We find out as I sat down with ultra running coach and endurance athlete Jason Koop for an in depth conversation about the brutal and beautiful Tor de Geants in the Aosta Valley of Italy. We also talk doping and Alberto Salazar/Nike Oregon Project, who he'd put on his Mount Rushmore of ultrarunning and much much more.

:: Our Video Conversation https://youtu.be/pQbYC1lfwHw

:: Training Essentials for Ultrarunning https://amzn.to/325dWh5

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0:00.0

Like that why turned into just being able to figure it out, like being able to

0:08.8

figure it out, like being able to put like all of the pieces together like I just viewed it as this like immensely

0:15.2

complicated puzzle where I had to figure out how to do the physical piece I had to figure out

0:20.4

how to do the gear piece I had to figure out how to do the gear piece, had to figure out how to do all of these different,

0:26.5

you know, pieces like within the race to kind of make them all come together like harmoniously.

0:31.7

And that was like a really big that was a really big driving

0:35.1

factor I mean that's why I did all the stupid night runs and ran up to the top of

0:38.3

pike speaking out of pizza and things like that is just because I had this you know

0:41.5

curiosity about how they would all come together and

0:44.8

like ultimately unfold on Rice Day.

0:46.8

So there's an interesting progression from one where it was like a some sort of

0:51.8

like physical proof point and then once I

0:54.4

started to get into it like I really just became genuinely curious and how it

0:59.7

all was going to fit together and that that's served a really big purpose for me.

1:04.0

Bonjournoy everyone, welcome to a brand new episode of the Billyang Podcast.

1:17.0

Thank you for once again downloading this episode bringing me along on your run on your drives wherever you may be listening

1:26.4

however you may be consuming this via YouTube yes we are recording this yet again

1:32.0

and I am having fun with it playing around with

1:34.4

it getting creative with it so thank you if you are in fact watching this but to

1:38.8

those of you who are listening welcome just the same this is a new episode. We have a fantastic repeat guest and

1:47.4

Excited to delve into that first of all and I'll try to keep this preamble short because we do have a rather full show today

1:56.0

But I'd be remiss if I didn't shout out all the people all the wonderful people who came out to the precursor of the ritual live event the 50 plus people showed up. Thanks again to the aid of coaches Chris Hout

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