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Anatomy of a DNF - TdG 2018

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Ultramarathon, Fitness, Running, Community, Health & Fitness, Trail, Endurance, Trails, Sports

4.51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2018

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Days after the conclusion of the Tor Des Geánts 2018 race, Don sits down with AJW, ECEP, and Scott to talk about this amazing experience.

  • Description of the Tor
  • Course description
  • Community
  • Communication between runners despite the language barrier
  • Trail culture - a tribe without borders
  • Mountain Running vs. trail running
  • DNF - what does it really mean

Video of what the Tor is really like.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

The pathprojects.com go there and you can get some great trail running gear.

0:12.3

It's true Scott because I just as you're going to hear in this upcoming podcast ran well

0:18.0

a good portion of tour to Johns and that is a 220 mile race with 90,000 feet of climbing

0:25.9

and I ran it in path projects and so did Norbert.

0:30.0

Who's Norbert?

0:31.0

You ask?

0:32.0

It was a gentleman I was standing next to in the waiting corral, 930 runners.

0:37.5

I look over.

0:38.5

He's carrying a set of Lakey poles and wearing pathproject shorts and says, yes, I listened

0:44.1

to TRN and I love my pathproject shorts.

0:48.3

Me too.

0:49.3

I said, we ran the whole race, chafery feeling fantastic in that gear.

0:54.6

And I also saw some post race photos where you're doing a little sightseeing and I think

0:59.3

I saw you wearing a pathprojects t-shirt.

1:02.1

Well and a hoodie as well.

1:04.7

I'm a path man on and off the course.

1:08.9

That hoodie is so good.

1:09.9

I'm wearing it right now.

1:10.9

I don't know if you noticed that but I'm wearing a pathprojects hoodie.

1:13.8

It is so comfortable and it is just the right thickness.

1:18.3

And it works and it is soft and comfortable and that's one of the great things that the

1:22.1

material moves with you and not against you and that's why I think it's chafery.

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