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Karen Hunter Is Awesome!

Roderick Sewell, Author of 'Iron Will,' On Training For a Marathon

Karen Hunter Is Awesome!

Women's Empowerment Network

Entrepreneurship, Karen Hunter, Mental Health, Women, Finances, Female Empowerment, Women's Empowerment Network, Society & Culture, Business, Health & Fitness, Entertainment

5.0687 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2026

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Roderick Sewell, author of Iron Will, joins Karen Hunter to discuss his grueling marathon training and his perspective on the recent film adaptation of The Long Walk.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Karen Hunter's awesome, and we out in the streets walking.

0:12.6

Yes, we are walking for our health, but we're also walking because it is cathartic.

0:18.5

There's something to walking.

0:19.9

As you know, I've been talking about the Stephen King, the long walk movie. And as I was watching it, I was thinking about how does one train to walk until the last person is standing? They ended up walking more than 300 miles. And I was like, who do I know that has done this? And let me talk to

0:40.4

somebody who has walked at least 100 miles with no legs. So I reached out to Roderick Sewell,

0:49.5

who he worked on his amazing book, Iron Will. And I just wanted to get his perspective.

0:55.1

I didn't even know whether he had seen a movie.

0:57.3

But I wanted to talk to him about how do you train for a race?

1:02.0

How do you train for a race, especially when you don't have legs?

1:06.3

Well, we got into so much more than that.

1:08.7

Take a listen.

1:09.6

Stephen King.

1:12.6

Have you seen that? Oh, my God. They did such a good job.

1:15.6

Okay. All right. So my producer read the book. So he was the support as it wasn't the same

1:21.6

as the book. But I thought it was so powerful. And it speaks to me where we are as a people, as a species.

1:32.3

And the notion that they got to the end together,

1:37.3

they formed these bonds and there was always these people trying to do something,

1:42.3

but they realized that it was the community. So I'm doing this

1:48.2

whole, I'm walking, you know, getting 11,000 steps in every day, but there's preparation. So I was

1:53.6

thinking, like, how would one prepare for a 300 mile walk? How would one prepare? And then I thought,

1:59.4

I know someone that actually did a marathon

2:01.8

who doesn't have legs. And I know how you train for it, but walk us through Project Sewell.

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