Eat Half, Walk Double

Tom Hooper from SIX03 Endurance joins the show. In a fairly short period of time his group in general, and Tom in particular, has become the new face of mountain, ultra, and trail racing here in New Hampshire. But a combination of an emerging pedigree of hosting national championships and his own travels racing in other part of the country the word is out both regionally and nationally.

Paul Kirsch is the most recognizable figure in New England mountain running for very good reason. Not only is he the USATF-NE Mountain/Trail Running Chairman, but he’s been hosting races in New Hampshire for several decades. But as you’ll learn, he was most certainly not born and raised in the white peaks of the Granite State.

Super excited to sit down with my good friend and colleague Kale Poland. We share a lot of things in common including our love for a specific breed of dogs, our chosen profession, and our contribution to the trail and mountain running scene here in New England. But one thing we don’t share is an endurance racing resume. Kale’s exploits as an ultra ultra endurance athlete have been very well docume...

Sarah Sallade & Ri Fahnestock are two of the original members of acidotic RACING. They are also the creators and directors of the Exeter Trail Race. These two longtime friends join the show as we chat about their early racing with aR, what they’re both up to now, their greatest collective racing success together, and all of the details of the Exeter Trail Race you never knew (like why they started...

My friend Josh Ferenc is a fascinating character study and one of the most dominant figure in US mountain, ultra, trail racing. You don’t believe me? Just ask him. And yet he refuses to be defined linearly. To steal a line from Winston Churchill, he’s a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma that which is so dense and secretive as to be totally indecipherable or impossible to foretell. The...

My friend Marcy Schwam is one of the most decorated and accomplished ultradistance runners of all time. A true pioneer in the sport her list of “firsts” is nearly as long as her list of World Records. Six World Records by the way. And the funny thing is, running wasn’t “her thing” as kid. A tennis prodigy at an early age she nearly became a professional tennis player. In this wide ranging conversa...

On today’s show I continue the conversation with my Pop Jim Dunn. We talk about how he got into running including a great story about the Mt. Washington Road Race and the first time he was beaten by a women in a race. Spolier alert...she would eventually become an Olympic Champion.  The chat then shifts to his transition into hiking with stories about his experiences above 14,000 feet on some the...

In the first part of a two part series I talk to the greatest coach, teacher, leader, and mentor I've ever known...my dad Jim Dunn.  From his first coaching job at Dover High School in 1969 to his last game as a Spaulding Red Raider in 2021, we talk about his philosophy on coaching, his career, and what he considers the greatest teams and players he ever coached (and coached against).  We also tal...