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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...

The best way to truly embrace and experience a place on earth is to travel it by foot. By slowly wandering through an area rather than speeding by you get to see it and appreciate it for what it is. This week's guest wanted to immerse himself into his home state of Iowa. So he decided to run across it. As someone who grew up in Des Moines who "avoided running a full mile until three years ago" Tay...

This week we are welcoming Angus Peacock back to the show for a third time! Angus is an executive coach and Director, a creative thought pioneer, and a performance specialist. He's also just a wonderfully introspective dude and one of my favorite people to feature on the podcast! For years, in both the rugby world and the corporate world, Angus has had the opportunity to study notions of leadershi...

Today I am honored to welcome rower, award winning author, motivational speaker and activist Arshay Cooper to the show!! From his website: "Arshay grew up on the West Side of Chicago, witnessing family and friends become products of their environment. But a chance encounter changed Arshay’s life. In 1997, he joined (and later became captain of) the first African-American high school rowing team at...

This week we are chatting with ultrarunner, school librarian, and awesome all around person Lindsey Weaver!! Lindsey just completed her quest to set the Fastest Known Time on the C & O canal, a 184.5 mile trail along the Potomac river from Cumberland, Maryland to Washington D.C. With summer races cancelled, she wanted to put all her training to good use and stepped far outside of her comfort zone...

This week's episode is with adventurer, polar explorer, environmentalist, Minnesotan, and wonderfully nice guy Paul Schurke!! Paul is a legend in the adventure world- completing multiple expeditions to the North Pole (including an unsupported trip in the 80s), dogsledding across Siberia (to convince the US and Soviet Union to open the Bering Strait to help out Inuit families), following in the foo...

Brady Manriquez and Phil Pinti join the show to chat all things 50 milers, Virtual Races and climbing 14ers!!! Phil ran a 50 miler through my favorite area in Virginia and is preparing to tackle the virtual Marine Corps 50k. Brady came out to Colorado and had a great week of trail running, exploring and he was able to summit his very first 14er. In this episode they both share adventures, stories,...

This week I am very excited to welcome the fantastic runner Alyssa Clark to the podcast! Alyssa has one of the most outstanding stories I've heard in a long time. Once Covid locked her down in Italy, she decided that she was going to run a marathon every day for a few weeks. Well.....being an ultrarunner (which gives you that extra dash of lunacy) a few weeks became a month which became two months...