Many Happy Miles: Barkley Marathons finisher John Kelly
Another Mother Runner
Sarah Bowen Shea
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode of Many Happy Miles we’re venturing into the woods. Or, rather, we are bringing on someone who spends a lot of time in the woods as an ultra-runner–and a very accomplished one, at that. Our guest? John Kelly, a dad of four, and one of just three finishers of the grueling Barkley Marathons–a 120+ mile, 3-day race in the mountains of Tennessee. Dimity and Sarah WF pepper John with questions about his recent Barkley finish, with topics including:
- How his childhood wanderings lead him to his passion for the trails;
- The weirdest things that’ve happened to him in the woods;
- How fatherhood has prepped him for the rigors of ultrarunning and;
- His unique strategy for napping on the run, and more!
Learn more about the Barkley Marathons phenomenon (AKA “the race that eats its young") by watching this documentary.
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| 0:44.0 | Welcome to Many Happy Miles, a podcast that celebrates all type of forward movement. |
| 0:48.0 | Whether it's an epic hike, a sensory ride, or your first brisk walk after a setback, |
| 0:53.0 | we're here to say yay to all of it, and bring on guests to inspire you to move with joy. |
| 0:58.0 | I'm Dimitri McDowell, co-founder of another mother runner. |
| 1:01.0 | And I'm Sarah Waster Flynn, and today I'm saying yay to being on spring break in sunny Florida. |
| 1:06.0 | So all of my lamenting about the winter and the endless winter now, |
| 1:10.0 | it's finally feels like summer here. |
| 1:12.0 | Nice, nice. Have you had some good beach time? |
| 1:15.0 | We have not been to the beach yet, actually. |
| 1:17.0 | We just arrived in Sarasota yesterday last night, and we'll probably go to the beach tomorrow, |
| 1:22.0 | but I'm staying here with my aunt, uncle, gorgeous house, and they have a pool. |
| 1:27.0 | And so the kids have just been living it up and swimming. |
| 1:30.0 | And yeah, we'll get to the beach, eventually. |
| 1:33.0 | There's nothing better than like a pool and young kids in spring break. |
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