{"id":418,"date":"2015-10-01T15:49:57","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T22:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/?p=418"},"modified":"2015-10-01T15:49:57","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T22:49:57","slug":"catching-up-with-charlie-engle-extreme-ultra-runner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/catching-up-with-charlie-engle-extreme-ultra-runner\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching up with Charlie Engle &#8211; Extreme Ultra Runner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/charlie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-419\" src=\"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/charlie-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"charlie Engle\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>Running<\/strong> 100 miles has become common place among the growing community of <strong>Ultra Runners<\/strong>. Few can say they have run over 4600 miles across the Sahara Desert, to raise awareness of the need for fresh water in Africa for an HBO documentary titled \u201c<strong>Running the Sahara<\/strong>\u201d. Charlie can.\u00a0 He can also talk about his run across the United States or his most recent 7 day stage race in Ecuador that began at an altitude 12,000 ft. and continued with over 155 miles at altitude for the duration of the event.\u00a0 Yes, Charlie Engle is an extremely unique <strong>runner<\/strong> and is always fun to chat with.\u00a0 Listen as we catch up with one of the most colorful <strong>ultra-runners<\/strong> of our time.<\/p>\n<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Catching up with Charlie Engle &amp;#8211; Extreme Ultra Runner\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2015-10-01T15:49:57-07:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT1H07M20S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Few can say they have run over 4600 miles across the Sahara Desert, to raise awareness of the need for fresh water in Africa for an HBO documentary titled \u201cRunning the Sahara\u201d. Charlie can.\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_natural_running_network\/content.blubrry.com\/the_natural_running_network\/charlie.mp3\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"61.7\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9322\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-418-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_natural_running_network\/content.blubrry.com\/the_natural_running_network\/charlie.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_natural_running_network\/content.blubrry.com\/the_natural_running_network\/charlie.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_natural_running_network\/content.blubrry.com\/the_natural_running_network\/charlie.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_natural_running_network\/content.blubrry.com\/the_natural_running_network\/charlie.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/?powerpress_pinw=418-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_natural_running_network\/content.blubrry.com\/the_natural_running_network\/charlie.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"charlie.mp3\">Download<\/a> | <a href=\"#\" class=\"powerpress_link_e\" title=\"Embed\" onclick=\"return powerpress_show_embed('418-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_embed_box\" id=\"powerpress_embed_418-podcast\" style=\"display: none;\"><input id=\"powerpress_embed_418-podcast_t\" type=\"text\" value=\"&lt;iframe width=&quot;320&quot; height=&quot;30&quot; src=&quot;https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/?powerpress_embed=418-podcast&amp;amp;powerpress_player=mediaelement-audio&quot; title=&quot;Blubrry Podcast Player&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; scrolling=&quot;no&quot;&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\" onclick=\"javascript: this.select();\" onfocus=\"javascript: this.select();\" style=\"width: 70%;\" readOnly><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/subscribe-to-podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player--><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Running 100 miles has become common place among the growing community of Ultra Runners. Few can say they have run over 4600 miles across the Sahara Desert, to raise awareness of the need for fresh water in Africa for an HBO documentary titled \u201cRunning the Sahara\u201d. Charlie can.\u00a0 He can also talk about his run&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"btn btn-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/catching-up-with-charlie-engle-extreme-ultra-runner\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[16,18,31,30,19,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":421,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}