Mike Wardian | The Guy That Won the Quarantine Backyard Ultra (and some other BIG races)

The Hard Way With Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education

4.8 • 874 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Legendary ultra-runner Mike Wardian is back on Spartan Up! Last time he had just broken the fastest 50K on a treadmill while on the Spartan Cruise. He holds the record for the fastest time for 7 marathons on 7 continents in 7 days; fastest marathon and 50K on an indoor 200-meter track; fastest Marathon as Spider-Man & Elvis; fastest Leadville 100 mile and Pike's Peak marathon double and ran the grueling Marathon des Sables-appx 150 miles in the Sahara desert in Morocco more than once. This is a great interview that digs into the mindset necessary to push through these remarkable challenges. Mike says he went to depths he never thought possible and says once you "come out the other side of that, your not the same person and that's special." Enjoy

LESSONS

Design your training to be more difficult then the challenge you are facing
Obstacle immunity informs every facet of life
There is always something positive you can get from any experience
Persevere & overcome
If at first you don't succeed- try again & dig deep
There's always a way
Always keep growing
Learn lessons from adversity
Don't silo your experiences
Get out there & run
Do something hard everyday

LINKS

http://mikewardian.com/

TIME STAMPS

1:05 Interview begins with tales of the Spartan Cruise

2:20 Clip of Spartan Cruise

3:15 Round two & breaking a world record

4:50 Running the major marathons

6:00 Embarking on a 50 miler

7:30 THE MARATHON DES SABLES

10:30 A once in a lifetime experience- twice

11:30 World Marathon Challenge

13:20 break

14:30 Training regiment- making marathons hard
16:30 overcoming a challenge

19:00 Making it on the podium of Marathon Des Sables

20:00 Coming back to work to a hijacked ship

22:30 Insights from difficult situations

24:00 Running across Israel

26:45 Joe gives a recap of the interview

29:30 Do something hard everyday & tell us about it!

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CREDITS:

Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.

Hosts: Joe De Sena & Sefra Alexandra -Johnny Waite & Colonel Nye were off training for an ultra

Synopsis – Sefra Alexandra

Production Assistant - Andrea Hagarty

Transcript

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0:00.0	Spartans, Joe Descenta here, founder of Spartan for Spartan Up Podcast. Good news.
0:07.0	Sefra, part of our Spartan Up Podcast team, interviewed Michael Wardian. Who the hell is he? Go back in the
0:15.6	archives. You will see I interviewed him years ago when we did the very off-brand
0:20.0	Spartan crews that just repulsed me because I saw so many people.
0:24.0	Well anyway, we'll get into that another time.
0:26.0	Anyway, go back in the archives, look at that interview, it will blow you away.
0:29.0	This guy is an animal.
0:30.0	A lot of people are talking about what we're going through is not a
0:33.0	sprint. It's a marathon. Actually, it's an ultra marathon being locked in your cages,
0:38.5	right? This guy's the king. He just ran 262 miles over 63 hours to set the backyard containment
0:47.8	ultra world record. This guy eats up pain and suffering.
0:53.3	Anyway, stay tuned.
0:54.9	Check out the old interview.
0:56.1	Check out this interview.
0:57.6	You are gonna build some grit and resilience
1:00.4	just hanging out with him.
1:01.4	Michael Wardian. Welcome to Spartan Up the Podcast. We are with Ultra Running Legend Mike Wardian who I actually
1:19.3	had the distinct pleasure of meeting you at 3 a.m. on a cruise ship.
1:24.4	Tell us what was happening that night. Let's start out there for those.
1:27.0	Yeah.
1:28.0	The Spartan cruise?
1:30.0	Yeah, it was the Spartan cruise a couple of years ago, and I have an affinity for running on treadmills.
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