Like a Bigfoot

This week I am chatting with Jason Green, someone I've been wanting to have on the show since the very beginning!! Jason is an adventurer, ultrarunner, genuinely nice human being and a dude who truly seeks the joy in life. He is also the race director for the Yeti Trail Runners which puts on some of the best races on the East Coast. He has forged a trail running community that is positive, uplifti...

What happens to a person when they run 150 miles through one of hottest and most remote regions in the United States in the middle of summer? More importantly, why would anyone do it? The DESERT RATS film aims to find out, following numerous racers as they tackle the notorious 6-day Desert RATS race along the challenging Kokopeli Trail in Utah, documenting all the blow-ups, epiphanies, lost toe na...

This week we chat with ultrarunner, mom and all around awesome person Amanda Rasmussen!! Amanda just raced at the potawomi 200 where she faced torrential downpours, crazy muddy trails and the longest distance she has ever stepped up to! She completed 150 miles of the event, which is inspirational to me as she just began her running journey a few years ago. In this episode we talk all about her rec...

This week we welcome Magnus Brisman to the show! Magnus is a traveling salesman in Sweden who, after driving all around and quickly approaching age 50, decided he was going to run a half marathon through every one of the country's the thirty national parks. This week we chat all about this adventure! Magnus shares stories of extremely cold half marathons to having to take helicopters and boats int...

This week we are chatting with Kathy Adams, an amazing human being and an ultrarunner! Over the last few years Kathy has completed all of Candice Burt's 200 milers- The Bigfoot 200 in Washington, Tahoe 200, and Moab 240!!! In this episode we discuss all that it takes to complete a gigantic task like training for and running a 200 miler. She also shares stories from her races, compares the three, a...

This week we are sitting down to chat with two of my favorite guests from the last year of podcasting- Brittany Charboneau and Rob Steger. We last talked with Brittany right after she finished 13th in the Olympic Trials and since then she has added "accomplished trail runner" to her resume by winning the Pikes Peak Marathon and setting some big time trail FKTs. Rob Steger of Training For Ultra is...

This week we are welcoming Calvin Johannsen back to the show!! This week we chat about a bunch of different topics. We start off hearing about his adventure hiking most of the way up Lone Eagle Peak, one of the most beautiful spots in Colorado. (Anytime Calvin's on we have to geek out about mountains!) Then we dive into his recent adventures into contracting and remodeling houses and the importanc...

When faced with a challenge you have three options: Persist, Pivot, or Concede. This past year has presented a seemingly endless stream of challenges. With each one we are faced with this choice. Today's guest, Kyla Claudell, exemplifies the mindset sharpened through adventure. Always persisting and pivoting and only conceding in extreme rare circumstances. Kyla is one of the race directors organi...

Scott Stark and Katherine Thomas are two of the most adventure seeking people I know! They have been taking on some of Colorado's biggest hikes, skis, mountain bike rides, amongst the plethora of incredible outdoor experiences to be found out here in the West. In this episode we talk all about building a relationship through adventures (and misadventures) in the outdoors, how seeking out times in...

This week we are welcoming back my friend and running buddy Tim Barr!! In this episode we chat about "All Things Trail Running", which is his new Youtube channel in which engages the Trail Running community to create unique and creative videos about this lovely sport! We also dig into a whole bunch of different topics and events including the virtual Continental Divide Challenge which kept us moti...

What is it like to run across the ENTIRETY of the Sahara Desert, the Atacama, the Gobi, to the South Pole, across frozen wastelands in the Yukon and Siberia?? What drives someone to take on major, life changing adventures and expeditions? And what would one discover about theirselves, their mind, and the vast world around them? I am honored and excited to share this week's episode with world trave...

This week we are chatting with Matt Allred about his journey in taking control of his health, how he rediscovered fitness, how to maintain mental health, the importance of creativity in his life and the challenges of parenthood. Matt is an OB-GYN based out of Idaho who balances his own personal fitness and health with a busy career life and life as a husband and father. In this episode, Matt share...

This week we are sitting down with writer and runner Dylan Roche to chat about how his journey through running has affected his journey as a writer! Running has given Dylan the confidence to quit his job in pursuit of writing, something he has always been passionate about. This journey has changed his life and has set him on a more passionate life. In this episode we chat all about how he got into...

This week we are bringing back John Petersen, rower, family man, principal, and one of my favorite guests from 2020! At the end of 2019 John had a very unique adventure as he joined a team of five other guys to complete "The Impossible Row". The first completely manpowered row of the treacherous Drake Passage from Chile to Antarctica. In the last episode we talked right after this event and I want...

This week we are chatting with someone new into the ultrarunning world Nic Chiri!! Nic is from a small river town in southern Iowa and after years of searching for something to be really passionate about, he put on some running shoes and fell in love with the sport! This episode is all about his journey from deciding to run a 10K, a seemingly impossible distance at the time, in 2018 to running his...

This week Candice Burt, one of my favorite guests ever, returns to the show! In this episode we talk about all of the ups and downs she faced over the last year including pulling the plug on her Arizona Trail FKT attempt due to the COVID shutdowns last March, creating the awesome East Coast vs. West Coast Challenge with Jason Green, and organizing and directing the monumental Moab 240! We also div...

This week we are bringing back Darius Sam an incredible young ultrarunner who has combined his love of the sport and his passion for serving his community. Last summer 19 year old Darius came on the podcast to talk about his first attempt at a 100 miler in which, by pushing his body to its absolute limits, he was able to raise over $90,000 for his local food bank. During that run he collapsed near...

This week we are welcoming ultrarunner, mountain athlete, and coach Kaitlyn Yonke! Kaitlyn recently set the Fastest Known Time on the iconic White Rim Road in Canyonlands National Park near Moab, Utah. She also has raced extremely well a few times at the Leadville 100. In this episode we talk all about her FKT, the power of service and her reasons for raising awareness for Multiple Sclerosis, the...

(Photo Credit: Nate Ptacek) Happy 2021!! Here's to a blank slate full of possibilities, happiness, and all the awesome goals we've set! I am very honored to chat with National Geographic's 2014 Adventurer's of the Year, environmentalists, explorers, and educators Dave and Amy Freeman! "Since 2001 they have traveled over 30,000 miles by kayak, canoe, and dogsled through some of the world's wildest...

As we reflect on this past year we should all be immensely proud at the sheer humanity discovered in digging deep and pushing through. 2020 really tested our fortitude and patience as we, in the wise words of my buddy Paul Scheuring, "perpetually soldiered on despite the unknown." Here's to you for enduring 2020 and all its ups and downs, twists and turns, good times and bad. You were strong, resi...

Adapt. That's what we as athletes and humans do. When life throws us obstacles we transform to meet them head on. Today's guest exemplifies this. In 2014, Sherown Campbell, a lifelong athlete, father, and all around incredible human being, was paralyzed from the shoulders down. The injury classified him as a quadriplegic. The years following have seen Sherown persistently and patiently taking on h...

This week I am very excited to bring you an episode with Emma Kittle and her dad Bruce Kittle!! In this episode we chat all about athletic performance, the power of using alter egos, why we need to shoot for the sun and melt our wings of wax, how to combat our own limiting beliefs, and we share some stories from hiking the Colorado 14ers! Emma and Bruce are the founders of Thunderbird Performance...

About a month ago, Kait Boyle and her teammate Kurt Refsnider individually set a women's and men's Fastest Known Time on the iconic 137 mile Kokopelli Trail. Biking faster than anybody they climbed nearly 15,000 feet, traversed the La Sal Mountains and endured the deep canyons of the desert completely self supported. This was another huge accomplishment for Kait in a career of elite ultra mountain...

Oh boy...this is a good one! Let's be honest, 2020 has been super stressful lately and for my own happiness I needed an hour or two of laughing with two of my best friends about some pointless stuff that we are way too knowledgeable about! So this week we are sitting down with Travis Steffen and Brandon Swett, two bonafide sports movie geniuses to dive deep into all things SPORTS MOVIES!!! Speeche...

Rue Mckenrick is a backpacker with a long list of accomplishments, "Triple Crowner, Long Trailer, JMTer", and thousands upon thousands of miles hiked. Inspired by all of these hikes, he is now stepping up to his biggest challenge, creating and hiking the approximately 12,000 mile American Perimeter Trail, a loop that will circumnavigate the continental United States. In this episode we talk about...