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Brendan Leonard & Jonathan Ellsworth on Their Running Backgrounds & What Makes Someone a “Runner"?
Off The Couch
English - March 08, 2019 17:06 - 43 minutes - 59.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 85 ratingsRunning Sports Health & Fitness Fitness running podcast Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In our inaugural episode of Off the Couch, Jonathan Ellsworth (founder of BLISTER), and co-host, Brendan Leonard (creator of Semi-Rad.com and producer of How to Run 100 Miles), talk about their running backgrounds; their love / hate relationships with running; and consider Strava as a modern-day spiritual exercise??
TOPICS & TIMES:
When do you actually get to call yourself a “runner”? (1:30)Our running backgrounds — the early years (3:15)Brendan’s return to running (7:25)Jonathan’s return to running (after breaking his neck) (13:06)Exploration, drugs, and stories (21:25)Strava as a spiritual exercise?? (34:30)Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.