The Great Bangladesh Global Run with Ultra Runner Arafat
Run to the Top Podcast | The Ultimate Guide to Running
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🗓️ 6 June 2018
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
The Great Bangladesh Global Run Day
June 6, 2018 is Global Running Day. Run to the Top celebrates the global nature of running as we learn what it is like to run, and race, in Bangladesh.
We are joined by Mohammad Shamsuzzaman Arafat who,to honor health and running, has aleady run 1006 kilometers from bottom to top of his country. Bangladesh, a country the size of the state of Iowa, is home to a population larger than all of Russia.
Arafat is a 27 year-old ultra runner and founder of The Great Bangladesh Run, a movement that is focused on making a healthier and stronger Bangladesh.
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| 0:00.0 | On today's run to the top podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | In our country, still no marathon. |
| 0:08.0 | I didn't get any marathon. |
| 0:11.0 | So we are trying to people encourage people to join a |
| 0:17.1 | healthy movement to join active lifestyle. We are trying to start at a |
| 0:22.1 | movement. |
| 0:25.0 | Welcome to the Run to the Top Podcast from Runners Connect, |
| 0:29.0 | where it's all about learning from the best and most inspiring minds in the sport. |
| 0:35.0 | Together, we can train a smarter, healthier, and faster running community. |
| 0:41.0 | Now here's your host, Stephanie Kay Atwood. |
| 0:45.0 | Welcome, this is Stephanie K Atwood, Boston Marathon Qualifier, |
| 0:50.0 | coach, and host for Run to the Top Podcast. We celebrate Global Running Day on June 6 this year and if you |
| 0:58.0 | are listening on the first day of this podcast release it is Global Running Day |
| 1:02.4 | 2018. I hope all of you are getting out there in |
| 1:05.7 | running support of Global Running and of support of your running buddies all over the |
| 1:10.7 | world. Today's interview highlights a global runner from Bangladesh, Mr. |
| 1:16.0 | Mohammed Shamsusaman Arafat. I think he's going to say that a lot better than I did, but I got |
| 1:22.4 | through it okay. He is an ultra-runner and I got through it okay. He is an ultra-runner and founder of the great Bangladesh Run. |
| 1:28.0 | Arafat ran 1,004 kilometers from the southeast to the northeast of his country in 20 days to create awareness |
| 1:37.0 | of good health through running and triathlons. |
| 1:39.8 | Now he's using the momentum to bring his love of the running to the people of Bangladesh. |
| 1:45.0 | Before continuing with Arafat and the Great Bangladesh Run, let's pause for a brief announcement |
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