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Ricky Lightfoot & Bob Greenough

RunPod

Global

Sports, Running, Health & Fitness

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Runners and… Horses? Unite! In today’s episode of Runpod we’ve got two very special guests Bob Greenough and Ricky Lightfoot who are going to talk to us about one of the most unique races you could ever sign up for…Man vs Horse. This internationally acclaimed event began in June 1980 following a chat over a pint, and has now galloped its way into the hearts of hundreds of runners looking to win a jackpot amount of money. If you one day fancy running over mountainous terrain, and trying to beat a horse’s PB…you won’t want to miss this one.

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0:00.0

Hello there and welcome to Run Pod, where runners unite. It's the run club of the podcast world.

0:09.5

See me as your club captain. I'm Jenny Faulkner. And the mission I have is to give you something to listen to

0:15.3

and hopefully make you run, even a tad faster or a tad further. And now every episode, I am joined by a guest who has a passion for running and is here

0:24.6

to share their story or their journey.

0:26.7

And today, well, it's a little different for I have two guests.

0:30.0

And we're going to be talking about a race with difference.

0:33.0

Honestly, it's so exciting.

0:34.3

This is a race that has fascinated me for quite some time. I'm sure it will

0:38.7

you too. It's a race called man versus horse. Now joining me to discuss all things man versus

0:45.4

horse are Bob Greenhoff from the race itself and a man who did rather well this year at the race.

0:51.8

In fact, he did better than well. He only went and beat the horse for the first time in 15 years.

0:57.3

It's fireman.

0:58.4

Ricky Lightfoot.

0:59.4

Hello there to you both.

1:00.7

Hi.

1:01.3

Hey, Jenny.

1:02.0

Thanks for having us.

1:03.2

Love the fact that you're both here.

1:04.8

And welcome to Run Pod.

1:06.3

Again, there's so much that we are going to discuss.

1:09.1

Bob, I'm going to come to you in a minute,

1:10.9

but first I've got to say, congratulations, Ricky. Impressive stuff.

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