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The Outlier Health Podcast

6 Rules to Follow for Your First Trail Run

The Outlier Health Podcast

Matt Frazier

Fitness, Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2015

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Trail running is intimidating. There's no way around it. You could get lost or hurt. You have to deal with uneven footing and steep climbs. It's dirty, wet, and exposed. But for co-host Doug, it's the only reason he's still running at all. And all those factors I listed earlier? They're much less of an issue that most beginner's think. Doug runs almost exclusively on mountain trails, is the author of the Trail Runner's System, and gets more pleasure from playing in the woods than anyone I know. When we decided to record an episode on trail running for beginners, it seemed like a no-brainer to follow his lead. In today's episode, I ask Doug to share the 6 most important rules new trail runners should follow to stay safe and easily transition from the roads to the trails.

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0:00.0

Hi this is Hope.

0:03.0

This is Kagan.

0:04.0

This is Katie from Washington, D.C. and Mirror Left and No Meats.

0:08.0

Radio. Hey Matt, have you ever been paddleboarding?

0:15.0

I have never been paddleboarding.

0:18.0

Do you want to? I mean does it sound fun to?

0:23.0

Is this like a trick? You gonna like corner me into having to do it something?

0:28.0

No, I don't like that sort of thing.

0:31.0

I don't like nature type things.

0:34.0

That seems boring to me.

0:36.0

All right, fair enough.

0:38.0

Well, I used to not think that paddleboarding would be all that fun.

0:41.0

I've actually done it one time before and I enjoyed it but

0:43.2

it seems like floating very slowly on a big body of body water. Like kayaking, canoeing,

0:50.8

on like a lake. Kayaking on a river seems a lot more fun to me.

0:55.1

Except this you're, how old you're standing up right?

0:58.0

Right. So it's even more power.

1:00.0

Right.

1:01.0

But I went out the other day, so I was out visiting some friends in Vermont,

1:05.0

and they live on a lake, on a small lake, and really no one else lives around there.

1:12.0

So there aren't other boats and that kind of thing

1:14.1

but it rained all morning and the rain had just stopped and the sun came out and I

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