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Big Fish with Spencer Matthews

S2 E13: The Jungle Ultra: The truth behind completing my most gruelling challenge

Big Fish with Spencer Matthews

Global

Health & Fitness, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

In this bonus episode, I'm joined by my good friend John Belton to discuss how we completed the hardest ultra marathon known to man. We recorded this days after we returned home after taking on the gruelling challenge of a 230-kilometer self-sufficient foot race through the Amazon Jungle. I'm incredibly proud to say John came second and I third, but it was not without facing some incredible physical and emotional hurdles.

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0:00.0

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0:12.0

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0:17.0

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0:26.8

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0:32.1

This is a global player original podcast.

0:35.9

So this is a bit of a special episode for Big Fish, a bonus episode of sorts.

0:40.3

We're going to be talking about the Jungle Ultra with my friend and Vogue's close friend and trainer, John Belton,

0:48.2

with whom I flew to Peru to undertake this, what do you call it,

0:52.2

ghastly challenge of mental resilience and physicality?

0:56.6

I'd probably call it something different now than I did at the start before it even happened.

1:01.2

But yeah, ghastly is definitely one of the words I'd use.

1:03.9

Gasly's a good word.

1:05.1

An epic five-day stage race through the Amazon jungle.

1:12.3

So for those of you that did not follow the race,

1:17.1

it is a 230-kilometer self-sufficient foot race

1:21.7

through the Amazon jungle.

1:24.8

Starting at altitude, up about five hours from Kusko, an ending down in the Amazon basin.

1:33.3

And self-sufficient means that you have to carry all of your equipment, you have to ration all of your food for the five stages.

1:40.3

If you eat too much, you will have no food. There is not extra food. If you eat too little,

1:48.4

you will have extra food to carry. And if you eat too much, then you will have no food. And

1:54.0

there is no way of topping up. You will be pulled from the race if you misjudge that.

1:59.4

You also carry your hammock and the trusty hammock, I can't wait to talk about the hammock.

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