Modern Wisdom

#406 - Rob Pope - The Man Who Ran 15,000 Miles Across America

Dec 4, 2021

01:38:54

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What Did You Learn About Yourself?

02:23

The Becomeing Forest

01:43

Doing 15 Thousand Miles in a Month?

01:31

Introduction

5min

A Funny Story About My Accident in the U.S.

2min

The Scout's Accent Is Essentially Weaponized Like It Is

5min

The Forest Gump Comparisons

2min

Running Across America Five Times

5min

Doing 15 Thousand Miles in a Month?

2min

I'd Have Regretted That So Much, if I Succeeded, Will Anybody Be Bonkes Enough to Try It?

4min

The High Level, What Did You End Up Doing?

4min

Taking a Scaus Culture International?

2min

10.

The First Three Weeks of Running

5min

11.

Isis Truck Stops - The Unwritten Rule of Arvs Truck Stocks

5min

12.

How Many Hours a Day Are You Running?

3min

13.

The Longest Run You've Ever Had?

4min

14.

Will Googe, Runner of the Year

3min

15.

What Was the Darkest Place That You Got to Throughout the Run?

2min

16.

The Darkest I Ever Got

5min

17.

I'll Use My Charm

3min

18.

What Did You Learn About Yourself?

2min

19.

Is There a Collaborativeness in the Media?

6min

20.

You're in the Jungle

3min

21.

Is My Car Going to Eat You Alive?

2min

22.

The Last Half of Cookville - A Memoir of a Day

3min

23.

How Long Did You Run Pushing a Pram in Front of You?

3min

24.

Was There Any Extreme Winds?

2min

25.

What Keeps You Going?

5min

26.

Peace Is a Wonderful Thing, You Know?

3min

27.

How to Reintegrate Upon Finishing

5min

28.

I'll Run to That Ocean, Man.

2min

29.

I'm Australian Champion, You Know?

2min

30.

The Becomeing Forest

2min

31.

I'm On, I'm Run. Robla, Run.

2min

Rob Pope is an ultra endurance runner and an author.

For 20 years, Forrest Gump's famous route across America 5 times has stood as pure fiction. Not only had no one completed it, but many runners claimed it would be physically impossible and that the punishing 15,000 miles would claim any athlete who attempted it. Then Rob came along.

Expect to learn why Rob committed to one of the toughest races of all time, how Twixes and Gas Station Sandwiches fuelled his performance, why he got chased down by a neo-Nazi, how it feels to watch a lorry jackknife in front of you as you're running toward it, the most brutal and most beautiful conditions Rob ran in and much more...

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