Ann Trason | BYP 009
Billy Yang Podcast
Billy Yang
4.8 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2018
⏱️ 111 minutes
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Summary
Join in on this conversation with Ann Trason, one of the greatest ultrarunners of all time. A 14-time winner at the historic Western States 100 who has also won Comrades Marathon twice, and still own's the women's course record at the Leadville 100. Featured in the bestselling book "Born to Run", Ann discusses some of her recent travels, how she's managed to remain a participant in the sport despite various injury and illness, and her thoughts on how she was depicted in the now famous running book.
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| 0:00.0 | It was another one of those spiritual events. I just, and I was going to marry mad. I was going to go to PhD program and I was going to marry mad. I was going to go to PhD program and on 30 miles I decided in 30 miles I'd quit my job |
| 0:18.7 | not get married and I was going to dedicate my life to the Western States trial. |
| 0:25.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to episode number nine of the Bill Yang |
| 0:31.0 | podcast. I of course in your host Bill Yang and today what a show we have |
| 0:36.0 | ultra-running legend and Tracin who I have been trying to get on the show for a while now |
| 0:42.0 | but she can prove to be quite elusive at times |
| 0:45.4 | but we did it we sat down finally made it happen but before we really dive into Antrace and the runner in person, a little bit of news. |
| 0:56.2 | I have, if you follow me on my social channels, you may have heard that I finally launched |
| 1:01.4 | a Patreon page. |
| 1:03.0 | Now what is Patreon you may ask? |
| 1:05.0 | Well, Patreon, think of Patreon as like a sort of a monthly quid pro quo |
| 1:10.0 | between a creator and the respective audience. |
| 1:13.0 | And for me, it's something that I've been sort of having and hawing |
| 1:18.0 | and really thinking about for the longest time. |
| 1:21.0 | And I thought, and how it's mainly worked in the past for me is that a lot of my business and how I earn a living was through client work, right? |
| 1:30.0 | So working with different brands and I would say about a third of my actual work work was dedicated towards running content |
| 1:37.9 | the stuff that you guys actually feel most engaged and connected with and hopefully inspired by. But my bandwidth was such that I just had to do this other work to be able to pay the bills, keep the lights on, so on and so forth. |
| 1:55.6 | But what I really wanted to do in this new year and moving forward was to do more of the |
| 2:01.1 | stuff that I feel like can be more impactful to you my dear |
| 2:06.3 | audience and to new upcrop of would-be runners in the future so to be able to put out the kind of quality work that I really want to do as far as a |
| 2:17.1 | podcast is concerned, it's on my own insistence that I do these in person, which adds a little more difficult level of actually |
| 2:26.5 | getting face-to-face with someone traveling moving all the equipment around |
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