Episode 17: Richard Jones - From Rookie to Ultra Machine

All right.

Episode 17, Pills for Hills podcast.

We are back.

Come on.

With none other

than Mr.

Chips.

Mr.

Chips and Mr. Wales.

Richard Jones.

Yeah, I meant to say Mr.

Wales, but I fucked that up.

Mr.

Chips.

Mr.

Chips.

We've been here for two hours already trying to get the mic sorted and all that, man.

I know, I know.

But we're back.

We're in a new location, as you can tell.

Yeah, we

are.

Look at that.

Can you see up there? Can you see the background?

Jojo Abba Tower.

Pretty

shitty city.

Yeah.

So we're at

fucking 228.

Up in the gods.

So we've not only upgraded the cam...

Up

in the gobs? Up in the...

Up in the gods.

Up in the gods.

So we've not only upgraded the cameras with Scotty D's nine million quid's worth of fucking kit, but we've...

That's not working.

But we are up on top of the page.

I can't find a

payment right now.

Welcome back, Rich.

Thanks for having me back

on, boys.

You were on with Lee last, weren't you, in the middle of the slam?

No, only after the Can-Am.

Fuck, was that

after the Can-Am? Yeah, we did the Can-Am.

We just started the slam.

And obviously, a lot has

changed.

You've done a 100-miler.

We've done it after your 100-miler, though, didn't we?

No. Oh, shit, didn't we? No, we did it after the first one of the slam last year.

Oh, wow.

OK. We've got loads to catch up on.

So at

that point, I had done two ultramarathons.

One, obviously, the first one, and then the first race of the slam.

Mm-hmm.

Since then, it's kind of all...

Couch to

ultra.

How

many have you done now? Lost count.

Ultras.

So 20 now? Yeah, it's over 20.

He's beaten me to a cunt.

Yeah, it's

over.

I mean, I've been doing this shit for fucking seven years.

He's overtaken me in a year.

Yeah, it's over 20 and there's a 100 miler and obviously recently did Wild Horse.

Hold it to the camera.

Yeah, hold this one.

Hold it to each camera.

Can you get up there? And that one.

And the

dinner plate.

Show them all, man.

Camera over there.

Camera one, camera two, camera three.

Yeah.

So what do you want to

know? Fucking hell, let's go back to...

What do you want to tell us? Yeah.

Tell us the filth.

The

filth.

I

don't even know where to start.

Yeah.

Right.

Actually, tell you what, let's roll it back then, right? So obviously...

Actually, tell you what, if nobody has listened to the first podcast... brief thing of your like background story maybe something like that and your journey the journey into ultras and stuff like that and then we'll talk well go into the most recent ones you're in