Free Outside
By Jeff Garmire
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Welcome to "Free Outside," the ultimate podcast for outdoor enthusiasts! Join me, Jeff Garmire, as I blur the lines between trail running, Fastest Known Times (FKTs), thru-hiking, backpacking, and all endurance. With 20 FKTs under my belt, a book, a movie, and plenty of unconventional experiences, I'm here to share my adventures and insights.
Expect engaging interviews and fun interactions with guests who excel in various ways. Whether we're discussing the art of slowly running through forests, the thrill of a challenging hike, or simply an appreciator of beauty and comedy, here we are.
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Before Cocodona 250: Nerves, Training, and the PCT Mindset
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May 03, 2026 |
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Who Wins, Who Falls, and Who Knows: Cocodona 250 Preview Show Ft. Tara and Allison
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May 01, 2026 |
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Walker of the Year: The Secret to Having the Most Fun
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Apr 29, 2026 |
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Sally McRae on Cocodona, Mindset, and What Actually Matters in Ultras
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Apr 27, 2026 |
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Cocodona 250 History: The Stories Beneath the Miles
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Apr 24, 2026 |
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What You Become Before the Finish Line
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Apr 23, 2026 |
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Go Two More
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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Vibe. Grind. Shine. (And Don’t Fall). Carb Maxing to run for Team USA
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Apr 17, 2026 |
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Heritage Square Bound: Cocodona 250 Strategy
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Apr 13, 2026 |
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Salty Boy Training Camp
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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He Trained 9 Miles a Week… Then Became an NCAA Champion. The Eric Jenkins Story
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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What Happens When the Record Slips Away, with Liz Derstine
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Mar 29, 2026 |
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Appalachian Trail FKT Talk, Cocodona Tactics, and the Year of the Fall
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Mar 25, 2026 |
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Brackets Are Cooked. Cocodona Prep Is Heating Up
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Mar 23, 2026 |
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Mike McKnight Is Directing a 200 While Racing Five More
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Mar 19, 2026 |
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Two Guys, One Bracket: Bracketology for Outdoor March Madness
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Mar 15, 2026 |
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Two Larabars, Pepperoni, and 900 Kilometers Unsupported
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Mar 13, 2026 |
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10,000 Miles on Foot, Madison Blagden’s Biggest Year Yet
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Mar 09, 2026 |
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The Wrong Turn That Shook Running
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Mar 06, 2026 |
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From Probation to Podiums - Overcoming
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Mar 02, 2026 |
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High Performance Exerciser Jacob Banta
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Feb 28, 2026 |
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Jeff Galloway’s Legacy: Olympics, Run Walk Run, Meaning, and “Fill Your Dash”
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Feb 26, 2026 |
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Barkley Marathons for Valentines Day
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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Barkley Marathons: A Recap with Allison, Map, Compass, Vert, Repeat
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Feb 21, 2026 |
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Three Minutes of Chaos: Ski Mountaineering’s Olympic Debut, Explained
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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Barkley Marathons Before They Were Famous: With the First Finisher, Frozen Ed Furtaw
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Feb 15, 2026 |
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Barkley Marathons 2026: The race explained, and I’m Running It
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Feb 14, 2026 |
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From Turkey Trot to Black Canyon: The Madison Liechty Story
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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Sub-4 Miler to Black Canyon 100K: The Zach Perrin Story
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Feb 08, 2026 |
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White Mountains Stories and a Retreat Invite
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Feb 06, 2026 |
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Black Canyon 100k Preview: Burritos, Banked Tracks, and Golden Tickets
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Feb 02, 2026 |
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Ben Dhiman: From Sleeping by the River to UTMB
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Jan 30, 2026 |
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Consistency Beats Intensity: Action over Noise
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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Triple Crown, Double Tahoe, One Jeffrey
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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My Mom Got Me a Coach (It Was Hayden Hawks)
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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Dylisms and being REALLY REALLY good at Exercising
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Jan 16, 2026 |
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Olympians Are Winning Trail Races Now, So What Happens Next?
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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Do the Stupid Thing (Why Fun Matters More Than Optimization)
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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Make It Make Sense: World Cross Country, Burrito League, and Running Media Losing the Plot
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Jan 09, 2026 |
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Before You Set Your Next Big Goal
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Jan 05, 2026 |
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FKT of the Year Acceptance Speech
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Jan 02, 2026 |
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The Jeffrey Awards: FKTs, Controversy, and Absolute Chaos
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Dec 31, 2025 |
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Rebuilding the Jeff Brand: Tights, Treehouses, Technical Chaos, and The Mahoosuc Traverse
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Dec 28, 2025 |
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Roadside America With Ordinary Jeff: Prairie Chickens, Hot Dogs, and Teddy Roosevelt
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Dec 26, 2025 |
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Ultra Running Then vs Now: Jeff Browning vs Jeff Garmire
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Dec 22, 2025 |
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From “Someday” to “Now”: Jeffs of the Appalachian Trail
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Dec 19, 2025 |
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Operation Hiking Home: 122 Laps on the Manitou Incline
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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Filming While Racing, The Jeff Pelletier Method
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Dec 14, 2025 |
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The Jeff Behind Your Running Shoe Reviews
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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Barefoot Jeff, The Origin Story of Jeff Mogavero
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Dec 08, 2025 |
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Olympics, Community, and Jeffing - The Jeff Galloway Way
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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Hot Peppers, Fast Legs, and Crotch Pots
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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The Gear That Actually Worked This Year
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Nov 28, 2025 |
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The Adventure I Wish I Was Still On: The Great Western Loop
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Nov 27, 2025 |
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Above the Plateau
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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Purpose, Pardons, and Trail TMZ
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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The Ultra Wisdom Episode: Best of the Free Outside Show
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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When Everything Feels Loud and Messy
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Nov 09, 2025 |
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Do Simple Better: Will Murray on winning Javelina 100
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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Adult Cross Country, Halloween Chaos, and Santa Sees Javelina 100
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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Will Power: Javelina 100 Recap, Molly Seidel News and the rest of 2025
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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Tech on the Trail: The Good, the Bad, and the Data-Obsessed
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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When the Goal Is Over, but the Feelings Aren’t
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Oct 24, 2025 |
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Javelina Jundred Preview Show Chaos
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Oct 19, 2025 |
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Love Letter to the Wasatch: Millwood 100
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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Chicago marathon Meets Local News
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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Exulansis: When No One Gets It But You
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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The SCAR Maker and the AT Record Breaker
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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A+ Suffering, B+ Sanity: My Self-Graded Appalachian Trail FKT
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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The A-T(eam): How We Actually Pulled Off The Appalachian Trail Record
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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Southbound and Stubborn: Unpacking the Appalachian Trail FKT
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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[While I Suffer] My Top 5 Hallucinations Ranked
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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Homeless by Choice: Redefining My Why
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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Inside the Appalachian Trail FKT: Tara Dower’s Record-Breaking Journey [Replay]
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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AT FKT Strategy: Why I’m Going Southbound
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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The Bitter Truth: World Records, Super Shoes, and Science
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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The Gear That Might Break Me Or Break The Appalachian Trail Record
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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Vote Jeff Garmire: Against Botulism, For the People, and the Appalachian Trail
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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Obsess. Break Yourself. Repeat: Joey Camps on the Art of Suffering
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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The Tempo of the Trail: Warren Doyle on History, Hiking, and Heart
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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The White Mountains Will Eat Your Shoes: Andrew Drummond on the Direttissima
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Aug 15, 2025 |
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The Wonderland Trail: A 90-Mile Crash Course in Backpacking
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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Failure, Resilience, and a Record: Raven’s Oregon Coast Trail FKT
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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No Home, All Heart: The AT FKT Begins
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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John Kelly vs. the Appalachian Trail: Lessons from the Edge
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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What Is an FKT? The Rules, Styles, and My Appalachian Trail Attempt Explained with Allison Mercer
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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Circle of Hell Champion: Bryce Brooks on Running Through Fire
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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Am I ready for an FKT yet? THE APPALACHIAN TRAIL FKT?
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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Pro Runners vs Influencers: Who’s Really Shaping Trail Running?
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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Live from a Hotel Room: AT Training Camp Diaries
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Jul 18, 2025 |
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In Defense of Being a Fan (And Why It’s Not Cringe)
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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Appalachian Trail Record Training Camp: Alive From Bangor, Maine
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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From Bowhunting to Cocodona 250: Cam Hanes Unfiltered
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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Lavaredo, Chasing Courtney, and Hot Takes with Alyssa Clark
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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Western States Gets an Award Show: The Westees
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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The One Where We Fix Western States (ft. Allison Mercer)
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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Big Horn 100: No Pacers, No Headphones, All Delusions, and a Hardrock Qualifier
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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Therapist Out of Office, AT FKT Coming Up
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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Golden Hour Grit
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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What is THE WHY? Of doing hard things...
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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Racing (and winning) after Kids with Kate Pallardy
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Jun 09, 2025 |
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I’m Going for the Appalachian Trail Record: Here’s the Plan
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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A Cinematic Cocodona 250 Race Recap
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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Trail TMZ: Unbreakable 2 is Broken? Western States Drama & Trail Running Chaos
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May 30, 2025 |
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From DNF to Done: Coree Woltering's Cocodona 250 Story
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May 26, 2025 |
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The Cocodona Cult and Trail TMZ
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May 23, 2025 |
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Board Games and Blisters: Kevin Russ on Cocodona and Creativity
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May 19, 2025 |
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Cocodona Mom: Running 250 miles with your kids
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May 16, 2025 |
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Should you run Cocodona 250?
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May 12, 2025 |
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Cocodona 250: Hallucinations, Hailstorms, and a Five-Time Finish
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May 09, 2025 |
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Predicting How Cocodona 250 is Going, while running it. Im going out aggressive
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May 05, 2025 |
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Cocodona 250 Deep Dive: Strategy, Forecasts, and How to Beat Courtney Dauwalter
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May 02, 2025 |
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Cocodona 250 Preview and 100 Men vs. a Gorilla
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May 02, 2025 |
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Drew Darby’s Career Glow-Up and how to film Ultramarathons
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Apr 28, 2025 |
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Behind the Yellow Gate: Inside the 2024 Barkley Marathons with Hiker Trash Radio’s Doc
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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From the CDT to Content Creation: The Thru Hikers Tim & Renee’s Outdoor Adventures
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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Arizona Monster Victory and How Pete Mortimer still slept 8 hours
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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Gorge Waterfalls 100k, Course Records, And a Stabbing
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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Calendar Year Triple Crown with Jackrabbit: 8,000 Miles, One Year, Zero Mushroom Knorr
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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Mantras, Marathons & the Mental side of Hard Things with Alyssa Clark
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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Trail TMZ, Why we need it!
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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Voicing the Pain Cave with Chris Worden
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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Jeffing Everything: My Evolution from the PCT to Barkley and Cocodona 250
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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Fastpacking, Filmmaking, Adventuring, Running and Just Being Chad
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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The Barkley Marathons: A Race Like No Other
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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I Ran for 12 Hours Straight – Here's What Happened... Training For Cocodona
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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Hollywood, Hiking, and Meals - The Trail Goods Co. Story
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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Bears, Moose & Mountain Lions—My Wildest Animal Encounters on Trail
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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How to train for anything - Including Cocodona 250
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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Hallucinations and Storytelling Chaos with Joe "Stringbean" McConaughy
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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If You Love Public Lands, It’s Time to Pay Attention
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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How to turn down a golden ticket with glitter, ft. Helen Mino Faulkner
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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Preparing to thru hike the Calendar Year Triple Crown with Stella
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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From the Classroom to the Golden Ticket – Will Murray’s Road to Western States
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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Fueling the Dream: How Kelly Newlon Merges Cooking, Trail Running, and Athlete Representation
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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Should You Sit in a Sauna or Just Run Faster? And other common running questions
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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The Black Canyon 100K Preview: Rivalries, Predictions & Outlandish Advice
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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Trail Magic to Course Records: Grant Barnette’s Evolution
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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The Ultimate Chipotle Showdown: Jamil vs. Kevin
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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2025 Predictions, Hot Takes, and Stories with Ken Seals of The Ultra Minute
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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Sodium Secrets: Sweat Science and Mastering Endurance Nutrition
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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What is a Back Yard Ultra? With Shep
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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California Burning: Wildfires, Climate, and Communities with Pete Deneen
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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Big Bend National Park Adventures, Ultra Training, Backpacking, and My 2025 Plans
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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Ideas - Goals - Plans... and the Appalachian Trail Record
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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Hot and Cold: The Science of Heat Training and Cold Plunging For Runners
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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Overcoming FKT Tragedy on The Pacific Crest Trail
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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The Jeffrey Awards 2024: Highlighting the Best & Worst of Trail Running in 2024
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Dec 30, 2024 |
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Lost, Scratched, and Soaked: Backpacking Los Padres
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Dec 27, 2024 |
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Manifesting Adventure with Professional Traveler Jeff Jenkins
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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1980 vs. 2010: Two Generations of John Muir Trail Adventures with Jeff Hester
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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Fast Packing and Filmmaking: Jeff Pelletier's Dual Journey on Trail and Screen
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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Bronco Billy Rides: The Story of Jeff Browning’s Ultra Career, Chaffing and All
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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Ultra Running, Comedy, and the PCT: Jeffrey Binney’s Life Lessons
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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Jeff Colt: Talking Burritos, Golden Tickets, and The White Mountains...with a bit of Trail Running
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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Jeff Mogavero, Taylor Swift, Trail Running, and Skiing
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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Gear of the Year - My Ramble on the Best Trail Running, Thru Hiking, and Backpacking items of 2024
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Nov 28, 2024 |
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David Sinclair's JFK 50 Mile Course Record - Performance of the Year? And Breaking News
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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Lessons From The Pros: Fueling, Mindset, and Pushing Limits
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Nov 25, 2024 |
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Breaking Records: Nick Fowler's Arizona Trail FKT
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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David Roche and Setting Records with Science and Running Economy
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Nov 17, 2024 |
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Dean Karnazes: The Ultramarathon Man
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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From Thru Hiking to Ultrarunning: My Evolution, from the PB And Mountains Podcast
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Nov 11, 2024 |
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Tara Dower: And the Art of the Appalachian Trail FKT
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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Mastering the Backyard Ultra with Frank Gielen
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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What is Wrong with Award Season in Ultrarunning and FKTs?
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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The Unique Atmosphere of Javelina Jundred
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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Why People Quit So Much More Now
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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The Journey of a Race Director
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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Capturing the Essence of Trail Running through Photography
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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The Ego Trap: Lessons from recent controversies
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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Hypothermia and the PCT Yo-Yo with Jon Shwarze
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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Appalachian Trail FKT, The WURL, and Catching up on Records
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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2nd Place: Recap of The Grand to Grand Stage Race Recap
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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The Benefits of Quitting
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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Questions: The Ones You Asked
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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Allison Powell, and the Divide 200 mile Victory
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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How to plan for a stage race: Grand to Grand
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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Epically Crewing Divide 200 miler
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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The Best Interview Yet. (It's me)
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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FAIL at Wasatch 100, When I couldn't trust my body
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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How to Run 100 miles, with Joe Corcione
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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How to Taper for an Ultramarathon
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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Ruby Crest Trail Yo-Yo Recap
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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Wonderful World of Wag Bags
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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Hallucinating in the Philippines, Race Directing, and Trail Running with Aaron Barber
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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A Record, Ongoing FKTs, and a Moose while Trail Running
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Aug 19, 2024 |
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How to get faster, How to train your body, and How to Get Sponsored
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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Working in the Industry, Carb Revolution, Creating Routes, and Failing at FKTs
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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A Beer Mile, Dropping out of a Race, Olympics, Trump in Bozeman, and a JMT FKT attempt
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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Hitchhiking, The Olympics, and The Lost Princess Anastasia
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Aug 05, 2024 |
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Setting the Record on the Oregon Coast Trail and Running Houda Trail with Jameson Collins
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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Short and Fast, the Other Side of Trail Running with Morgan Elliot
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Jul 29, 2024 |
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Failing Epically at the Tahoe Rim Trail FKT
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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Montana Meltdown Race, Scummy, and an FKT attempt upcoming
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Jul 22, 2024 |
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Huge News and Mika Thewes! We are talking 200 mile races and a new event
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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Crazy Animal Encounters with Grizzly, Moose, Goats, Coyotes, and Mountain Lions
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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Everything About Outdoor and Backpacking Content Creation and YouTubing with Devin Ashby
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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Failing Forward: An FKT Attempt on Costa Rica's Tallest Mountain
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Jul 08, 2024 |
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The Calendar Year Triple Crown with Brandon Weis
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Jul 05, 2024 |
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How we made a movie? The Free Outside FKT Story
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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Trail Runner Shelby Farrell's Epic FKTs: Adventures, Costumes, and Van Life with Cats
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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Breaking the JMT Record: My Journey to the Fastest Known Time on the John Muir Trail. Inside FKTs
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Jun 24, 2024 |
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Walk with Cal, Tahoe 200, and Talking Backpacking, Thru Hiking and FKTs with Cal Swartzentruber
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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Pedestrianism to The Rise of 200 mile running races, and other long-distance ultramarathons
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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Fill Out Your Dash and Talking Balancing Running and Music: Liz Derstine's Story
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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Interviewed by a Robot. Thru Hiking, Ultrarunning, Backpacking: Artificial Intelligence interview me
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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Cottage Brands in the Outdoors with Lloyd Vogel of Garage Grown Gear
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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Pursuit of Happiness: Mental Health Journey with Ultrarunning, FKTs, Thru Hiking, and Trail Running
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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Crocs, Eclipses, Trail Running Contracts, Bear Encounters, and thru hiking the Pangea Traverse with Lil Buddha
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May 31, 2024 |
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Doping, FKTs, Cocodona, UTMB, Trail Running, and Ugly Rocks in this solocast
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May 27, 2024 |
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Setting Guiness World Records Running on the Treadmill with Don Reichelt
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May 24, 2024 |
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Hallucinations on the Trails
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May 20, 2024 |
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Setting the PCT Record with Nick Fowler, the FKT extraordinaire
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May 17, 2024 |
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Recap of the Cocodona 250
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May 14, 2024 |
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Cocodona Episode: Trail Running, Thru Hiking, and FKTs are all the same
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May 06, 2024 |