'What Are You Willing to Give Up?' Engineering geek, Dad and Ultra Runner - Richard McDowell - The Working Athlete Podcast -EP07

<p>In this episode, we talk with Richard McDowell.</p> <p>Richard ran cross-country at school and university then moved more into mountain biking for a few years. Then sport took a back seat for a few years while travelling overseas with work, until getting more into cycling in India. He got into triathlon and participated in a couple of half and full Ironman races. He discovered that while swimming was certainly not a strength, running seemed to be his strength. &nbsp;He ran his first marathon in Hyderabad in 2012 and finished on podium with a sub 3hr finish. After nearly 5 years traveling on work, he returned to the UK in 2015 and started running with more focus and joining an athletics club called Hercules Wimbledon.</p> <p>He raced over a kinds of distances and terrain, from 800m to 126km, track, road and cross-country, with marathon being the most successful distance. PB has dropped over 13 marathons to 2:23:08 finishing 10th amateur at the London Marathon in 2019. He recently started venturing into the ultra-marathon distance. He's married and has 2 children, aged 4 and 1. He juggles training with family duties and work within the engineering sector.</p> <p>In this episode he shares his journey, his progression, his views on nutrition among other things.</p> <p>This episode covers:</p> <p>0:00 Intro</p> <p>0:05:32 &nbsp;Early years in sport</p> <p>0:10:48 &nbsp;Early years on work and life around the globe</p> <p>0:13:03 &nbsp;Time in Hyderabad, India</p> <p>0:16:59 &nbsp;MTB Himalaya experience</p> <p>0:19:47 &nbsp;Tour of Nilgiris 2012 experience</p> <p>0:24:25 &nbsp;Restarting running in Hyderabad</p> <p>0:27:51 &nbsp;First Marathon experience</p> <p>0:32:05 &nbsp;Winning a Duathlon with a broken hand!</p> <p>0:37:40 &nbsp;Triathlon, first 70.3 experience</p> <p>0:43:42 &nbsp;70.3 World Championships in Vegas 2013</p> <p>0:45:58 &nbsp;Transition from 70.3 to Full Ironman distance</p> <p>0:56:09 &nbsp;Moving back to UK in 2015 and focusing on running</p> <p>0:58:34 &nbsp;Running with kid in buggy- 5k in 1