

I can offer a 25% discount on Ultrarunning Magazine subscriptions and renewals. I’ve joined a partnership with Ultrarunning Magazine. So I grew up in a hostile environment.” He spent much of his childhood with his grandparents who were strong disciplinarians.

My mother was uneducated and instead of nurturing me she fought me even more. For that reason, he used to lash out on me. When I was born, my father thought I was not his own, he was of course wrong. Kouros explained, “I had a misfortune in my family. Sports was also a refuge from his family trouble. He could not afford to go to the movies so he went to a stadium to run for fun. They did not always have enough food, requiring Yiannis to perform his first manual laboring at the age of five. His father was a carpenter and the family lived in poverty. Yiannis Kouros was born on Februin Tripoli, Greece, a city of about 20,000 people at that time. One of his competitors, Trishal Cherns of Canada, said, “There’s the elite, the world class, then there’s Yiannis.” Every ultrarunner needs to know about Yiannis Kouros and his accomplishments. The late “Stubborn Scotsman,” Don Ritchie, is certainly in the conversation, Some can try arguing for certain mountain trail ultrarunners, but what Kouros accomplished, dominating for more than a 20-year period, and setting world records that have lasted for decades is nothing but mind-boggling. That is a bold statement, but there are few that dispute this statement. Yiannis Kouros from Greece is considered by most, as the greatest ultrarunner of all time. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | Pandora | iHeartRadio | Stitcher | JioSaavn | Podcast Index | Email | TuneIn | RSS | More By Davy Crockett Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:20 - 33.2MB)
