120. Mountain Runner Peter Maksimow on Public Lands, Urban Trails, Plogging, & IPA's
The Strength Running Podcast
Jason Fitzgerald
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2019
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
I first met Peter at the US Trail Running Conference in Estes Park, CO. We sat together at lunch, had a great conversation, and I'm excited to bring his perspectives to the Strength Running Podcast.
Peter is on the podcast today to discuss a wide-ranging set of issues that affect runners:
- What counts as "trail running" (especially if you live in a city)
- How you can get involved with trail maintenance in your area
- Plogging and how we can leave spaces better than we found them
- His favorite type of race
- The ATRA trail race calendar
Show Links & Resources:
- The ATRA "Find a Trail" tool
- Strength Running's Trail Running Resource Page
- Follow Peter on Instagram
- Trail maintenance opportunities
- How to become a competitive trail runner (with pro Abby Levene)
- How Anna Mae Flynn trains for trail ultras
Please be sure to say hi to Peter on social media and thank him for coming on the podcast!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Ready, set go. |
| 0:04.7 | This is episode 120 with elite trailrunner, |
| 0:07.8 | member of the 2015 silver medal winning team |
| 0:11.2 | at the world long distance mountain running championships and the outreach |
| 0:15.0 | specialist for the American Trail Running Association I'm your host Jason Fitzgerald. It's my job to bring you industry leaders in the |
| 0:35.0 | running community to help you improve your training, broaden your horizons about the |
| 0:39.9 | sport and get more from running. Our guest today is fun, he's fast and he loves |
| 0:45.1 | running up steep mountains. Mr. Peter Maximo is deeply embedded in the |
| 0:49.8 | mountain ultra and trail running scenes as a youth coach elite athlete himself a former race director and the outreach and partnership specialists for the American Trail running Association also known as Atra. |
| 1:04.1 | I met Peter in October while I was at the U.S. Trail Running Conference up in Estes Park, |
| 1:09.1 | Colorado to speak on a coaching panel, and he was representing the Trail Association and I was fortunate enough |
| 1:15.5 | that he decided to sit at my table at lunch and we were able to talk more about what Atra does, |
| 1:22.3 | public lands issues and what I do, helping runners with their |
| 1:25.9 | training and their mindset about running. |
| 1:28.5 | I wanted to bring Peter on the podcast to talk more about the many issues that us runners rarely think about. |
| 1:35.5 | Everything from trail maintenance, public lands conservation, plogging the history of the |
| 1:41.1 | New England hazy IPA, which is actually quite fascinating, his reason |
| 1:45.4 | for dressing like a pirate for Halloween and a lot more. |
| 1:48.6 | This interview is an excerpt from our full conversation that's available for team strength running members. |
| 1:54.2 | If you're not sure what team strength running is, |
| 1:56.2 | head on over to strength running.com slash TSR to find out. |
| 2:00.6 | I think you're gonna love it. |
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