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

we talk with Buzz Burrell, a co-founder of Fastest Known Time.com, a tracking website that has been

cataloging the modern FKT movement here in the United States and abroad, to my knowledge,

for the better part of the last decade, perhaps even

longer. While there is no governing body for FKT certification, Fastest Known Time.com has filled

the void acting as the informal arbiter of these records. We spend the majority of the conversation

getting into the details about the recent sale of

Fastestown Time.com to Outside Magazine earlier this month.

But there's a lot more to buzz that is interesting that we delve into at various points.

For example, he's been trail and ultra running since the late 1960s and has set a wide array

of fastest times and first attempts at many routes that we consider

classic here in the United States, including the Colorado Trail and the John Muir Trail.

And in addition to his work on the FKT site, he has also been an athlete manager for Las Portiva,

a brand director for Ultimate Direction, and he's

actually joining Ultra Running magazine as a regular columnist, I believe, next month.

If you enjoyed our conversations last year with Mark Daney and Larissa Rivers at Strava,

or our conversation with Jovenary at Fit Insider, I think you will dig this one. Let's get

started. Welcome, Buzz.

Buzz Burrell, welcome to the single track podcast. Thanks very much, Finn. It's nice to meet you, however virtually

and maybe. We will definitely be talking at length about all things fastest known time.com, but there are a few questions I've always wanted to ask you.

And since I have you here, you've been in the sport quite a while and presumably in eras when the sport was not quite as popular as it is now.

And I've always been curious, what's it like to be a part of something during

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