Nick Butter - The Man Who Ran Around The World

The Not So Fit Couple Podcast

Ben Haldon & Lucy Davis

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 809 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2021

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

Nick Butter is one of the most celebrated ultra runners on the planet. He is the first human being to ever run a marathon in every country on earth (196 to be exact) and has recently completed a 128 day run around Britain where he ran 200 marathons back to back, a large portion of which was done with a broken leg.

Nick's stories don't end there, from being held at gunpoint in the largest market on earth to being smuggled across the Yemen border by drug smugglers this is seriously one of the most incredible podcasts we've had the pleasure to hold.

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0:00.0	There's digging and then there's super digging.
0:08.0	There's food.
0:09.2	And then there's baker's superfoods.
0:12.2	Made with selected natural ingredients and tasty chicken.
0:16.2	There's food.
0:17.2	And then there's baker's superfoods.
0:20.8	Hello and welcome back to the Not So Fit Cup of a podcast with your host's and then there's Baker's Superfoods.
0:25.5	Hello and welcome back to the Not So Fit Cup of podcast with your host, Lucy Davis.
0:26.6	I'm Benjamin Halden.
0:29.0	So we've got a very special guest to us again today.
0:33.7	And I think this intro could go on for a very, very, very long time.
0:39.5	So we'll dive into the podcast and pick Nick's brain instead. But not only has he ran around the whole of the UK, he's also run around every country in the world.
0:44.1	It's on a marathon in every country. I was guys, literally.
0:50.3	Mr. Nick, but I thank you very much for your time today because you know you're a very busy
0:53.4	man, so thank you for jumping on
0:54.5	Oh, thank you for having me.
0:55.5	I'm looking forward to it.
0:56.4	It's been a while since we chatted all the things running the world, so yeah, looking forward to it.
1:00.1	I appreciate it.
1:00.6	One of the things we're going to see on the way down here, I was speaking to Lucy.
1:03.0	I was actually feeling great yesterday because we did a half marathon in the morning. And then we come down and sat with you today and it's kind of deflated my ego a little bit.
1:11.4	Well, I don't know about that.
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