Jeff Browning

[laughs] Amazing.

Um, did you hear about, obviously you would've heard about, um, what happened with, um, Jeff Browning, Bronco Billy?

Yes.

That was, um, it was r- that was really s- it was really odd, wasn't it? 'Cause I, I remember seeing, like, in sort of real time, seeing the video that was posted of him where he was in the, he was in the checkpoint, and he'd s- and he'd lost his glasses.

Um, it was came as, like, a bit of a revelation to, to Finn who was interviewing him.

And, but I, it made me just think of, like, the old school approach for people that did, that were doing, like, low carb because that was always the thing, wasn't it? That you were...

Uh, you know, I remember listening to interviews with, like, Jeff Browning and Zach Bitter, where they talked about the fact that they would, for the first hour, they would only have, like, water because they wanted the body to stay in fat burning mode for the, the, and spare their glycogen for as long as possible.

And I thought, is this, as a subject for the, for the, uh...

You know, to circle back to the very beginning when you were talking about, you know, all the things you were asked to do as you were preparing to run your race overseas there.

You know, and it is a lot, but it, you know, makes me think about, you know, what happened to Jeff Browning, you know, when he was running TDS and where he had a medical event and they had to airbag him out of there.

They brought him basically in the aid station.

They brought him back to life and airbagged him out.

Absolutely, John.

Yes.

And thank you for bringing up the Jeff Browning situation.

Obviously, I was out there when it happened in Chamonix when we found out And the details were unclear at the point of where he had collapsed as far as on the course.

Well, and just, like, access.

So Jeff Browning, who just went through a really big thing-

Yeah

... at UTMB-

And I don't know sometimes if there's a, I remember thinking with that Bronco Billy thing, if there is a comfort in, and I reject totally when people, you know, and I'm glad he didn't pass and be, I'm glad no one wrote, oh, he died doing what he loved because you can't make, that's about you, man.

That's not about Jeff Browning.

That's about you managing your distress around the situation.

But you're so right.

And I watched it, then commented on Jeff's page.

But what I just, I just, if you don't love Jeff Browning, you should fucking find something else to do.

he's like the most beloved athlete in ultra and you can tell how emotional he is and how much he loves just the community just by you know he gets choked up and it's like just because it means so much and it and it wouldn't mean that much like after health scare anyway but he gets choked up just talking about experiences or what that clip from Dylan's film, The Chase, where he's like, you know, this isn't necessarily what I wanted, but it's what I needed where he got reeled in at the end.

So this guy, his heart's on his sleeve.

I understand there's growing pains.

But at the end of the day, man, it's such... it's such a beautiful community.

And I think the Jeff Browning, uh, experience has kind of showed that, that I just really want, I want that to get, be featured, not the, not the growing pains.

No, totally.

We've got so much good stuff to bring you in this episode, and it was an absolutely huge week in running for many reasons.

But before we kick off, I just need to talk about Jeff Browning.

And many of you probably heard last week, in fact, in social media age, this is old news now, that Jeff suffered a heart attack during the TDS.

And this happened the day that our podcast with him came out to church.

And it's probably a good place to leave it.

But we're going to go and celebrate life and celebrate history.

amazing human beings and celebrate the um you know the example that they set and and like you said that's exactly right and i think that also you know jeff browning and all that sort of thing you can you don't know what's around the corner so just grab it with both hands

And Matt Pridham kind of spoke about how the climb has always been about that kind of mateship and having a drink and having a laugh and having, you know, the dark humour.