Road Dog Podcast

"Open your hearts to the mountains and the people and the lakes and the rivers." Hello From Bhutan is the first podcast to come out of Bhutan ft. everything you should know and did not know you should know from the land of Gross National Happiness. The show is hosted by Bhutanese journalist, Namgay Zam . Listen in as they interview each other and include a chief tourism office member about the vis...

"The neurosurgeon told my girlfriend there was a 90% mortality rate and he said of the 10% that survive…a lot of the time they're vegetables." Adam Chase lives and runs in Boulder CO. and is the president of A.T.R.A. (American Trail Running Association). Adam discusses putting on trail races, being the Trail Run Consigliere for Brooks Running, how to be part of a sponsored running team, and he det...

"I went from being an alpha geek to totally dumping the dependency on technology and embrace nature." Ken the Hobo Runner discusses his health challenges, not using technology, his hit and run bike incident that left him with a brain injury, how he hitchhikes to marathons, his 4-legged running partner, and his profound experience at the Boston Marathon bombing.   Support Road Dog Podcast by:   1....

"There was people with like 100 mile shirts on like curled up under a bush weeping and I'm like, I can't even believe this is legal to do to yourself. This is so cool." John Vanderpot Has More DNFs Than Most People Have Starts. John has completed 238 races in a 10 year span. Learn how he moved from wrestling to running long distances, his life as a high school English teacher, stories from the Bor...

"Less people have done the Snowman Trek than Mount Everest." Clint Welch, Jack Rosenfeld, Tom Reiss, and Chris Clemens all join Luis for this special dual podcast with Beer On The Run. Hear the gang discuss beer, running, Snowman Race, climate change, elevation, wildlife in Bhutan, and drinking yak milk. Support Road Dog Podcast by:   1. Joining the Patreon Community:  https://www.patreon.com/road...

"I realized at that point, that why that purpose that driving force is so deeply important to an individual running these races." Ben Light & Mike McKnight are ultra-trail runners that are out to set an FKT on the 800 mile Arizona Trail. In this episode they discuss brand sponsorship, how they got into ultra-running, what they look for in races, Arizona Trail 800 mile FKT project, Tahoe 200, GPX f...

"Snowman Trek is actually very popular and I would say the most difficult trekking route in the world." Luis flies to the Kingdom of Bhutan to get ready for the Snowman Race. Follow Luis over several weeks as he journeys 222 kilometers through the Bhutanese mountains as he makes all the final arrangements for the Snowman Race. Luis is marking the course, chatting with locals along the way, seeing...

"Snowman race follows the most difficult and the longest trekking trail and track. So, it is approximately 222 kilometers which is 138 miles." Luis flies to the Kingdom of Bhutan to get ready for the Snowman Race. Follow Luis over several weeks as he journeys 222 kilometers through the Bhutanese mountains as he makes all the final arrangements for the Snowman Race. Luis is marking the course, chat...

"I love what I do. It took me a long time to find that career that really fulfilled me in the way that I needed and this is definitely it." Kelsey Gilmore is a wildlife care specialist. More specifically, she is a rhino trainer. Listen to Kelsey describe her running career, doing Ragnar, meeting Luis for the first time at the Born To Run Ultramarathon, and all the amazing knowledge she has around...

"I felt like it was my dharma and my karma to figure all of this out and put it into music." Merrell Fankhauser is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist, who wrote Wipe Out and was most active in the 1960s and 1970s with bands including the Impacts, Merrell & the Exiles, HMS Bounty, Fankhauser-Cassidy Band, and Mu. Luis sits down again with Merrell and discusses the lost continent of Mu, al...

"My mission statement is to get more people moving." David Kilgore is a distance runner who lives in the Bronx. David is sponsored by ON. He discusses the first time he met Luis, some running stories, how to get a sponsorship and general life happenings. Zachary Friedley is an adaptive athlete who is also sponsored by ON. Zachary talks about the amazing experience from the Born To Adapt event and...

"I'm trying to be present in this moment and be in this moment and allow myself to just decompress a little bit and enjoy it. It's so great to be back in the mountains again." Ian Golden is the founder of the Trails Collective and runs the Finger Lakes Running Company. Ian paced Luis to his Hurt 100 win. Recorded up at Western States, Ian discusses being an event director, marking race courses, an...

"If I can figure out how to highlight amazing people and link those with causes and start having long term impact, that's a road I want to travel down." Rob Decou  is the Executive Producer and Co-Founder at Lux Virtual. He is also a ultra-endurance athlete. Rob details his grueling and rewarding experience of completing the Uberman Ultra, Everesting Gibraltar Challenge, travelling to the Copper C...

"Hey, I can still live the life that I love and I just have to do it in a sightly different way." Ian Mackay is a World Record holder quadriplegic athlete with enduring spirit. Ian chats about his non profit Ian's Ride and the group ride he puts on each yaer. Hear how Ian broke the World Record for greatest distance covered in 24 hours by a motorized wheelchair, his mentoring, and other amazing st...

"It's lots of nuts actually. Pounds of nuts. I probably had one pound of nuts a day." Joe McConaughy is a professional trail runner sponsored by Brooks. Hear Joe talk about his high school track career, the current state of trial running, winning the Cocodona 250, the PCT FKT, the Long Trail, AT unsupported FKT, and the types of runners he likes to coach. Support Road Dog Podcast by:   1. Joining...

"I was dead set on winning the 2006 race almost because I didn't want to embarrass or disappoint Jurek." Brian Morrison is the operating partner for Fleet Feet Seattle. Brian describes how a running shoe should fit, his run camps, how he got into running, how Scott Jurek trained him for the 2006 Western States endurance run and his retelling of how he won Western States but got disqualified just f...

"So I came here with the idea to help. To find people who shared my values of wanting to protect the environment and to respect the indigenous peoples, the native peoples that live there." Randall Gingrich is an environmental and geological engineer who founded Tierra Natavia. Randall lives down in Chihuahua and advocates for the Busureliami which is a cultural education program for Tarahumara chi...

"It's just a matter of knowing my body and how much pain I can tolerate for a giving activity." Sam Reynoso deals with an autoimmune disease and still manages to get out there and compete in OCR and trail running. Hear Sam's extraordinary story of how he turned his life around from pain killers to exercise. Support Road Dog Podcast by:   1. Joining the Patreon Community:  https://www.patreon.com/r...

"As soon as it got dark I ate shit a couple of times and then I kind of death marched it into the end. I think I finished 4 th or 5 th place." Patrick Sweeney runs us through his childhood, how he got into running, his minimalist lifestyle, fundraising efforts, his run across the country and why he likes to be naked. Kara Lubin is the CEO/founder of the 100 Mile Club. The 100 Mile Club presents st...

"Years later Quentin Tarantino picked a song out that we recorded called Comanche and it got in Pulp Fiction, the movie." Merrell Fankhauser is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist, who wrote Wipe Out and was most active in the 1960s and 1970s with bands including the Impacts, Merrell & the Exiles, HMS Bounty, Fankhauser-Cassidy Band, and Mu. Merrell discusses making music, playing guitar,...

"The only way we can introduce change is to do things differently." Terry Chiplin is the Director of American Trail Running Association and host of the US Trail Running Conference. Terry lives in Estes Park, Colorado where he coaches and organizes trail running camps for athletes for all ages and ability levels. Hear all about Terry's past and all the exciting things to come for the Trail Conferen...

"We have the Tevis Cup ride and ultimately concluding with the Western States endurance run. The 47 or 48 years of history capsulated right here in a display." Hal Hall is a 30 time finisher and 3 time winner of the Tevis Cup. He is also a founding member of the upcoming Western States Trail Museum. Hear all about the museum and the rich history of the trail. Also Hal describes what it takes to be...

"I told enough people I was going to finish it just to hold myself accountable. If I had to crawl across the finish line, man I was going to crawl across that damn finish line." Aaron Stacy works for the California Highway Patrol and is a distance runner. Hear about the unique runs he has been on as well as his first 100 mile race at the Rio Del Lago. Aaron is working on a fundraiser called 100 Mi...

"The knowledge is a 72 year old wins the Tevis Cup and it's all gravy. The truth is your only 72 and it's not all gravy." Potato is a horse rider and breeder. He has rode the Tevis Cup 31 times with 22 finishes and 3 wins. He most recently won it in 2015 at the ripe age of 72. Potato is the author of 2 books titled Ride Like Potato and Truth vs. Knowledge . Luis visits Potato on his ranch and unco...

"We got 5 generations that all stood in this very living room. So that's pretty cool stuff I think." Jim Glines is a former banker from Santa Maria. In this episode Jim gives Luis a history lesson about the Santa Maria area, banking and being an auctioneer. Luis interviews Jim on his old family ranch and hears many amazing stories about Jim, the land they are on and the ins and outs of being at a...