#284. Extreme Record-Breaker Athlete Runs Australia - Jack Pitcher
Eventful Lives Podcast
Dodge Woodall
5 • 857 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Jack Pitcher is an extreme athlete that ran the length of Australia. He talks through immense struggles, near death experiences and traumatic hallucinations. We also talk through the dedication and motivation behind Jack's extreme task. Breaking the British record for running 2,684 miles (4,320km) finishing his adventure at Sydney's Bondi Beach, his challenge is really inspiring.
This is the eventful life of Mr Jack Pitcher
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| 0:00.0 | Why you run the width of Australia, 2,700 miles in 61 days. |
| 0:06.0 | I thought if I'm not scared of depression and not scared of dieting, then why should I be scared of failure? |
| 0:10.0 | It doesn't make any sense. |
| 0:11.0 | Sometimes it'd be like right boys, you've got to run 18K and just to get a bit of food. |
| 0:14.0 | So I ran 74 miles a day for 12 days in a row. |
| 0:17.0 | My calves were bigger than my quads. |
| 0:19.0 | My pelvis was seasoned up. I was in like a |
| 0:21.2 | 4,000 calorie deficit a day. I'm surprised I didn't die, man. Really bad car accident. |
| 0:26.5 | Rolled down the motorway in Australia with a with a trailer and a 4x4 and lucky to be alive. |
| 0:31.5 | I was seeing people in the Outback come up to me with like a road map asking me where |
| 0:35.6 | Moscow was. I was, I didn't know where I was |
| 0:38.5 | mate. Welcome to the Eventful Lives podcast. I'm your host Dodge and I'm the founder of Bournemouth |
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| 1:00.2 | Jack, welcome to the show mate. |
| 1:01.6 | Cheers, Dodge. |
| 1:02.5 | Really appreciate you making the effort come today. |
| 1:05.1 | This is a mad story. |
| 1:06.3 | I want to know, let's roll away back. |
| 1:08.0 | I want to know why you run the width of Australia, 2,700 miles in 61 days from Perth to Sydney. |
| 1:17.6 | Yeah, I mean, it wasn't actually the original plan. So the original plan was me and my friend Josh were attempting to be the first British runners to run the |
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