s2/e07 Winning Dopey & Training for Multi-Race Events with Brittany Charboneau (@funnyrunner26.2)
The Running Explained Podcast
Running Explained
4.6 • 534 Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Dopey winner Brittany Charboneau (@funnyrunner26.2) joins the podcast this week to talk all about her magical winning weekend, her life as a pro runner, and training for multi-race events!
- Brittany's non-traditional path to becoming a professional runner
- Training for Dopey and her plan going into the weekend
- Her between-race recovery strategies
- The hardest moment of the weekend (that almost derailed her win!)
- Costuming for performance
- and more!!
Brittany Charboneau (@funnyrunner26.2) is a Denver native and a professional road and trail runner sponsored by The North Face. She is known as The Funny Runner thanks to her background in improv and sketch comedy. Most notably, Brittany placed 13th at the 2020 US Olympic Marathon Trials, has a first-place title at the 2020 Pikes Peak Marathon, and most recently became the first person (male or female) to sweep the 2022 Walt Disney World Dopey Challenge by winning all four races across four days in the 5k, 10k, half marathon and marathon distances…all while dressed in costume! Brittany prides herself in her creative approach to her running and on being “not just a runner.” When not training for her adventures, she is a running coach for Mercuria Running, is a digital collage artist, loves singing Disney and Broadway tunes!
https://www.thefunnyrunner.com/
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| 0:15.6 | I think of it like a Tamagocchi. |
| 0:17.8 | At the end of all of this... |
| 0:20.0 | We're going to have a little baby. Raising Chelsea, a Hulu |
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| 0:31.6 | Welcome to the Running Explain podcast. I'm Elizabeth, a marathoner, running coach, and answer seeker. When I became a new runner at the age |
| 0:39.9 | of 29, I had so many questions, but it felt like I was on my own to figure all of the answers. |
| 0:46.5 | So now I'm here to answer all your running questions to help make you a better, smarter, |
| 0:52.0 | faster runner. There's no question too simple and no topic too complex. |
| 0:56.8 | So let's get started. My guest this week is Denver native and professional road and trail runner |
| 1:01.9 | Brittany Sharbonneau. Brittany is sponsored by the North Phase and placed 13th at the Olympic |
| 1:06.9 | Marathon Trials in 2020. And she recently won the Dopey Challenge at Walt Disney World, |
| 1:12.9 | which is when you win outright the 5K, 10K, half, and full marathon races held on four consecutive |
| 1:19.2 | days, which has never been done before until now. |
| 1:24.5 | Now, this is a really fascinating peek behind the curtain about the life of a professional |
| 1:28.7 | runner, but it's also a conversation that shows you that professional runners are still |
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