Olivier Bernhard

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Sports, Running, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 15 January 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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This week on RunPod, Jenni is joined by someone who wasn’t content with his multiple Ironman victories and world duathlon championship wins, he wanted to leave an even greater impression on the running world. After retiring from competing on a professional level, Olivier Bernhard devoted himself to creating the ultimate running shoe. One that would give the perfect running sensation. He began by cutting up garden hoses at home and gluing them to the soles of his shoes, this was the start of the On Running Revolution. Together with his fellow co-founders, they officially founded On Running in 2010 and in the years which have followed, their game has picked up a pace. You’ll see their shoes on athletes on the world stage, they’ve been on podiums, broken records and they’re worn by millions of regular runners round the globe. In this episode, Olivier talks about the brand, its growth, which On trainers are right for you and their new sustainable initiative which will be the first in the trainer world. It’s a thoroughly interesting conversation with someone who has turned their passion for running in the Swiss Alps into a business, which has become a major player in the fitness world.

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0:00.0	This episode of Run Pod is sponsored by M&S, where you can shop all your favorite sportswear brands.
0:09.2	Hello and welcome to RunPod, the Run Club of the podcast world.
0:14.9	Much like other run clubs, we meet weekly, but here it truly doesn't matter how fast you run,
0:20.5	how long you run for, nor how far you
0:23.1	travel in that time. All runners are welcome. Fast, slow, young, old, new, experienced gazelles,
0:31.1	plodders. You might glide, you might bounce, you might struggle. But the fact that you get out
0:36.4	there and give it a go is what really
0:38.2	matters. Now, I'm Jenny Faulkner, and every week I am joined by a guest who also loves
0:43.0	running. And today's guest has turned his passion into a full-blown global business. In fact,
0:50.9	it's one of the major players in the fitness world. For today, I am joined by co-founder of on-running Olivier Bernard.
0:59.4	Ah, hello there.
1:01.2	Hello, Jenny.
1:02.3	And hello, everyone listening.
1:04.1	And I'm very glad to be with you, Jenny.
1:06.7	Well, welcome to RunPod.
1:08.2	It's great to have you.
1:09.8	I mean, this is exciting.
1:15.7	The magic of the internet means, Olivier, that I am in London. Where are you today?
1:30.3	I'm in back in small Switzerland, looking at my window, there is about half a meter of snow. It's nice. It's beautiful. It's cold. So I'm calling it from Switzerland, very close to not the actual Swiss Alps, but the very start of the Swiss Alps, probably we're going to talk about
1:34.8	that. I'm pretty sure we're going to talk about that or touch that later into the talk anyway.
1:40.3	Yeah, we certainly will. I mean, how exciting that you are in the snowy Swiss Alps and I'm I'm more in a very grey London town. But you know, you're right. There's no excuse. If you want to go running, you should just be able to go and you should take on the elements, whatever they are.
1:57.6	Absolutely. And I think that was maybe not the first thing I embraced with running,
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