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This week we are talking with ultra runner Dreama Walton! Dreama recently has become the subject of a documentary called "Dreama Team" that follows her journey through Western States. The film also highlights the challenges she has faced in life and explores how pushing her limits in ultra running has helped her process them. The film is absolutely wonderful and I will share more information when...

Recorded a few days before flying to South America to join Ray Zahab on a KapiK1 Expedition!! Pre-Expedition nervousness before we head to cross the Atacama Desert. Why do we step outside our comfort zones? What are we hoping to discover?

This week we are joined by "a mountain sort playing mountain sports" Scotty Dobbo!! Scotty moved out to Colorado and fell completely in love with the sport of speed flying. A sport that combines paragliding and parachuting in which a person zooms a down mountain at incredible speeds. This episode is about passion, dedication, and flight. Scotty is endlessly interesting and awesome!! Cannot wait fo...

#356: Emily Wanless 2 -- Leadville, High Lonesome, Bloody Knees, Educating Through Ultrarunning by Chris Ward

This week's episode is ultrarunner Jen Tischler!!! I met Jen at the Booneville Backroads Ultra back in 2020 and ran many of my most difficult miles with her. It was 98 degrees, no shade, 50 miles into the day and we were drinking hot water and my brain was shutting down. Jen was the most positive person I had ever ran with and I'm truly not sure I would have made it had it not been for her optimis...

What does training and competing in mountain biking bring to our lives? What does it mean to have our "why" be "just because..."? How can we discover space and meaning through our breath? What is it like when you are "in the soup" and not "thinking about or judging the soup"? This week's episode is with the incredibly insightful mountain biker, filmmaker, all around AWESOME human being James Adams...

This week we are talking with Matthew Hengst about him and his girlfriend Jen's summer adventure paddling down the entire Mississippi River from it's Source in Minnesota to the sea down in Louisiana!! This one is EPIC!! Through their adventure they battled giant oil ships, river alligators, lightning storms, flooding campsites, and much much more!! As someone who grew up in a town on the banks of...

This week we are beyond honored to once again be chatting with the incredible Eszter Horanyi!!! She recently set the unsupported FKT on Nolan’s 14 (an approximate 100 mile route that takes you up and over FOURTEEN of the Colorado 14ers, mostly off trail!!!) It’s an incredibly difficult, near impossible challenge even when you have a support crew. Eszter did it by herself. Completely unsupported. A...

What does it take to summit the iconic Mt Ranier TWICE while also running the 93 mile Wonderland Trail around? Mountain guides and all around AMAZING athletes, Abby Westling and Kiira Antenucci found out when after 3 days, 22 hours, 19 minutes and 38 seconds they had not only set the new FKT but had an adventure of a lifetime! This episode is all about that experience! We talk about the ups and do...

Celebrating 7 years and 350 episodes of the podcast with my wife Lindsey Ward and one of my best friends Brady Manriquez!! In this episode we talk about everything from Lindsey's second half marathon (and subsequent injury) to Brady's recent foray into camping. This was an absolute blast to record with lots of laughs! Hope you enjoy!

This week we are chatting with bikepacker, adventurer, and "pro mountain shuffler" Eliza Sampey! Eliza recently set the FKT at the self supported GCOR bikepacking race through the Olympic mountains. It took her an incredibly fast 3 days, 5 hours, 13 minutes to travel the 450 miles. But in reality this accomplishment took much, much longer to achieve. 33 months ago Eliza had a terrible fall on her...

This week I am honored to bring you another conversation with the one and only Bruce Kittle! Bruce is one of the wisest people I know and I’m always very honored to be able for time to sit down and learn from him. He is a man of many talents with passions for teaching mindset training with professional athletes, coaching all levels of football, guiding meditations and hosting his fantastic podcast...

"The secret to living is mastering the art of dancing with your fears..." This is a quote from Dyana Carmella's absolutely wonderful book "A Walk Thru Neverland" which is an incredibly insightful and entertaining story of her journey taking on the seldom thru-hiked Pacific Northwest Trail. More importantly, it's a story of self discovery through adventure. It's about a person seeking fulfillment,...

Cussing out rocks, controlling the outcome of your 24 hours, battling through extremely difficult 100 milers, and greeting it all with focus and enthusiasm with the "Canadian Berserker" himself Noel Thomson! I met Noel while on a hike with my 4 year old around Mud Lake in Nederland, Colorado. Noel was fresh off completing the Boulder Ironman and after chatting about endurance sports for a bit I kn...

This week we are chatting with Marianne Hogan about her phenomenal 2022 racing season and Rob Steger about what it was like to capture this experience for their new film "Marianne Runs". Marianne put it all out on the line and finished 3rd place Western States and 2nd place UTMB back in 2022. In this episode we chat all about what this experience was like from both the athlete and the filmmaker pe...

This week we are chatting with extremely fast elite runner Jeff Colt!! Jeff is fresh off an 8th place male finish at the Western States 100 (one of the fastest and most competitive 100s in the US)!! In this episode he shares tales from that race- what it was like to compete with the best of the best, what he learned about himself by pushing his limits and going "all in", and how he balances the co...

This week we are joined by Cortney Haile a wonderful and crazy fast ultra runner living in Golden, Colorado! Cortney was the winner of the 2022 Desert RATS Stage Race (where I first met her) and recently took on the incredibly difficult Keys 100. In this episode, we hear stories from these two races plus dive into how she started ultra running doing a very challenging stage race through the jungle...

In this episode we chat with returning guest and AWESOME runner Tim Barr about his experience running the Western States 100 miler!! Tim has worked for years and years to get drawn from the lottery and this experience truly expressed his love and passion for the sport of ultrarunning! This one was really fun to record and I'm very honored to share Tim's story (with special appearance from his son...

This week we are chatting with founder and president of MS Run the US Ashley Schneider!! In 2010, Ashley ran across the United States from San Francisco to New York City, becoming only the 16th female at the time to complete such a feat. Through that journey she discovered a lot about herself, the country, and what it takes to not only run the length of the country but to successfully fundraise. T...

This week we have a fantastic conversation with legendary ultra runner Junko Kazukawa!! Junko is an athlete out here in Colorado. She's been life long athlete and coach who is a staple in the ultrarunning community. Not only battling such big endurance feats such as taking on the Leadville Trail Series and The Grand Slam of Ultrarunning in the same year, Junko also is a two time breast cancer surv...

This week we are once again joined by adventurer, ultra endurance athlete, explorer and educator Jason Hardrath! Jason recently started a gigantic quest he is calling "Journey to Infinity". Through this adventure he is seeking to do an infinity loop on the tallest volcanoes on each 7 continents. An infinity loop consists of creating an "infinity symbol" up and around a mountain, which means, in or...

Sally McRae is an absolutely incredible ultra runner who has taken on and excelled at some of the biggest races in the sport!! She has recently released her first book "Choose Strong" which is a raw and vulnerable memoir about the challenges she faced through the first 18 years of her life and how her perception of strength evolved along the way. In this episode we talk about the power of vulnerab...

On November 5th today's guest Candice Burt stepped outside her door and began putting one foot in front of the other for 32 miles. The next day she did it again. And again. And again. On and on and on for TWO HUNDRED straight days!! Through this challenge she faced every challenge imaginable- extreme cold, snow, thunderstorms, 100 plus degrees, pretty much every type of weather out there. More cha...

This week we are chatting with one of my best friends Chris Cornejo about his experience taking on his second ever 50K! He also shares stories from his days working in Yosemite National Park and talks about what it takes to recover from an achilles tear. Hope you all enjoy this episode as much as I did!

This week is a very special episode for me as I finally bring my mom on the show to talk all about the meaning of adventure in her life, how cycling gave her community, her mom's life and the ripple effects of love! I truly hope you all enjoy this one!! To all the moms out there- Happy Mother's Day!! You are doing the most difficult and most important job on the planet!!