Welcome back or welcome to the Single Track Podcast. I'm your host Finn Melanson and in this episode

we are talking with Andy Wacker, a professional trail runner for Solomon based in Boulder, Colorado.

The focus of our conversation is on Andy's new organization called the Trail Team, which is supporting

and developing rising American athletes into the best

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in the coming weeks. With that, let's get started. Andy Wacker, it's great to finally have you on

the single track podcast. Nice to be here. A lot of cool stuff to cover in this conversation.

I think you have pretty significant name recognition in the sport,

but for folks that aren't familiar with you, can you give a quick elevator description of your

background, like how you got involved, what you specialize in, and where you're at now in terms

of career? Yeah, sure. I am a pro trail and sometimes road runner for Solomon right now.

I've been on 17, I think, U.S. teams, and I ran at the University of Colorado.

So kind of have a little background doing a little bit of everything, doing track and cross-country and you name it with running.

One of the cool things about you is one of the many cool things is you've seemingly kept tabs

on what it takes to be a pro runner in the sport, what it takes to be successful from like

a career standpoint.

And I think it would be, before we get to what you've recently created, I think it'd be

interesting to paint a picture of what the opportunities looked like for you when you were first coming

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