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Long Run 242 - Summer Willis - Sexual Assault and Rape Awareness

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Hiking, Ultramarathon, Ultrarunning, Mountaineering, Crosscountry, Running, Marathon, Sports, Track, Improv, Comedy, Trailrunning

51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Join Scotty and Summer Willis for a long run in which they discuss Summer's life in running and her advocacy in the area of sexual assault and rape awareness.  Summer ran 29 marathons in a year to bring attention to her cause and empower herself as a survivor of abuse.  She's also run a marathon carrying a matress and crawled a half marathon on her hands and knees.

She is also a advocate for legislation in the area of rape and sexual abuse.

Learn all about her and connect with her here: https://summerwillis.com/resources/

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0:00.0

All right, you guys, this is going to be a, I don't want to call it a long run.

0:06.1

It's like a medium run.

0:07.0

I know when I say long run, you're thinking long, but this is longer than short, but it's not as short as long.

0:16.0

This is Summer Willis.

0:17.4

I read an article about this woman, Summer Willis, who completed a half marathon by crawling to raise awareness for survivors of sexual assault.

0:29.3

And I was fascinated.

0:31.5

I said, I have to get this story and share this story with you guys because it's a cause that's near and dear to my heart.

0:37.8

Now, trigger warning, we talk a lot about sexual assault and rape.

0:42.1

So if you don't want to hear about that, move on, although you shouldn't because we're raising awareness for it.

0:47.4

So, you know, you should listen.

0:49.3

But just be forewarned.

0:50.7

There's some sensitive topics.

0:52.4

And but just really interesting lady trying to do a

0:55.6

lot of good stuff in the world that's that i think is not controversial and that uh everybody would

1:00.3

agree with and uh so we i booked her right away and i put this up like the next day just because

1:05.9

i wanted to get this out uh because i thought it was such a good thing and tomorrow is uh or or no, two days from now, I think is National Women's Day.

1:14.1

And so anyway, this is me and Summer Willis.

1:17.9

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1:21.0

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1:22.1

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1:23.5

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1:26.7

Get some dry seats.

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