Bonus episode #123 – Personal worst

Culips Everyday English Podcast

Culips English Podcast

Self-improvement, Education, Language Learning, Courses

4.8 • 968 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In this week's bonus episode, Andrew talks about his trip to Gyeongju, South Korea where he participated in the 2024 Gyeongju Marathon. From his pre-race planning and road trip with his friend Jimmy, to the excitement of race day morning, you'll hear all the details of his marathon experience. Andrew shares what it's like to be one of the few international runners at the event, introduces us to the traditional Korean music that welcomed runners at the start line, and opens up about dealing with an unexpected knee injury during the race. Despite the challenges, Andrew stays positive and already has his sights set on his next marathon.

How this episode will improve your English:

* Listening practice: Improve your English by following along as Andrew tells a personal story about preparing for and running a marathon in Korea.
* Vocabulary building: Learn useful sports and fitness terms like "carb loading," "dialed in" "hit your pace," and "acting up."
* Idioms and expressions: Learn everyday idioms like "wasn't in the cards," "to be iffy," "TMI," and "empty the tank." See how these common expressions are used naturally in conversation.
* English speaking practice: Join discussions with other listeners on the Culips Discord server for additional speaking practice.

Important links:

* Become a Culips member
* Study with the interactive transcript
* Join the Culips Discord server
* Small-group discussion class schedule (member only)

Transcript

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0:00.0	How is it going? I hope you're doing well. My name is Andrew. I will be your host and your English study buddy for this episode.
0:08.0	Are you ready guys? Are you ready to dig in and do some English studying?
0:12.0	What I'm going to do here in this episode is tell you a story that
0:16.3	happened to me last week about my experience running the 2024 Kyung-Ju marathon.
0:24.0	So as many of you guys know, one of my hobbies is running.
0:27.0	I really, really enjoy it.
0:29.2	And I ran a marathon last week, and I'm going to tell you that story this week. So stay tuned for
0:36.2	that story in just a moment. But before I get started with that I want to let you
0:40.6	know that there is a free interactive transcript and vocabulary glossary
0:46.1	to accompany this episode and I think that they will be very useful study tools for you and I recommend checking them out. You can get them on
0:55.1	our website cueops.com or follow the link in the description for this episode and if you
1:00.5	are a cueops member well then you will also get a comprehension quiz.
1:05.1	We throw in that little extra for our members just as a way to say thanks for your support.
1:10.4	And of course, we love all of our members so thank you guys for studying and learning with us
1:16.2	and supporting the work that we do here at Kuleps. Speaking of Kuleps membership if you are a Kuleps
1:22.4	member then I want to let you know about this week's upcoming small group conversation classes.
1:29.2	We have speaking classes here that we offer at Kuleps and the idea is first you listen to one of
1:35.3	our podcasts and then after listening to that podcast we discuss it as a small
1:40.2	group over Zoom so it's really awesome I've been hosting some of these small small group
1:45.0	conversation classes and also our other staff Indiana and
1:49.0	and they do this as well
1:51.0	and it's just a great way to gather different Q-Leb members from around the globe and
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