The New Now of Me with Tony Riddle

The Outdoor Journal Podcast

One man, three peaks, 9 days, and only nine toes.
Tony Riddle has just completed a record run by reaching the three highest peaks of Scotland, England, and Wales, barefoot. Most runners drive the 460 miles between each peak in a 24-hour challenge, but Tony completed the full route on foot.
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He ran the 485-mile distance in nine days, seven hours, and 18 minutes. beating the previous time by four hours and 31 minutes.
The father-of-four successfully ran more than 17 marathons barefoot to raise funds for Survival International to help protect indigenous communities around the world, who currently preserve 80% of the planet’s global biodiversity.
To break the men's running record, Tony committed to a week of 4 am starts. And he did it all with a broken toe, which caused a cascade of other injuries as the body naturally compensated for that missing support.
In his day job as a natural lifestyle coach, Tony helps people choose ways of living that are more in synch with human biology. Tony is also an extreme ultra-marathon runner, who also ran the nation running the length of the UK barefoot last September.
This is Tony’s second visit to The Outdoor Journal podcast. So if you’re interested in learning more about ways to rewild, reboot, and reconnect yourself with natural practices, check out Episode 1, which to date is still our most popular episode.
In this episode, Tony discusses the mental and physical challenges he had to endure on the challenge and the natural recovery techniques he used to overcome them, the role of his family in supporting his goal, his personal connection to the route, the significance of raising awareness for Indigenous peoples and the threats they are facing, and the feeling of being reborn a new man.
This episode originally aired lived on Instagram, so Tony fields some live questions, including one from a very special guest.
Alright, let’s go!
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