#436: Kris King on Exploring The World Through Ultra Marathons - The Ice Ultra in the Arctic, Jungle Ultras in the Amazon Rainforest To The Deserts of Africa and Mountain Ranges of Kyrgyzstan!
5 June 2023 - 52 minsKris is an athlete known for being an expedition leader, ultra-runner, and storyteller.
He is associated with organizations such as Beyond the Ultimate and the Spine Race.
Beyond the Ultimate is a company that organizes extreme ultra-marathons in various locations around the world. Locations that include the Amazon jungle, the arctic (the 230km race I completed in 2019), the desert and their new race in the mountain in Kyrgyzstan (which I’ll be doing in July of this year)
Here are some of the things we talked about in today’s podcast:
The growth of adventure races vs standard marathons and ultra-marathons The conception of BTU and designing races in some of the worlds coole...