# Ken Rideout: Drug addiction to fastest man over 50

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Podcast: [RunPod](https://stenobird.com/podcast/runpod-989154)
Published: 2026-04-09T23:15:00+00:00
Episode link: https://www.heart.co.uk/podcasts/runpod-jenni-falconer-podcast/
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## Resource

Ken Rideout is the former Wall Street executive, boxer, prison guard and opioid addict who since finding running - has gone onto to break records in endurance running in some of the most challenging races on earth. At 52, he became Masters’ Marathon World Champion , running 2:29:08 in Chicago, and has since won some of the world’s most punishing endurance events, including the 155-mile self-supported Gobi March across the Mongolian desert. Ken’s memoir, Everything You Want Is on the Other Side of Hard, tells the full story. With incredible will power, self belief and mental strength, you can overcome all. Expect to be empowered after lsietening!

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