Cameron Hanes Aims for 240 Miles
Trail Runner Nation
Trail Runner Nation
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🗓️ 29 September 2017
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Outdoorsman, best-selling author, adventurer and runner, Cameron Hanes joins The Nation to talk about his passions: bow hunting big game around the world and endurance running. He completed the Bigfoot 200 in 2016 and is a couple weeks away from the start of the inaugural Moab 240 mile endurance run. He has a unique complimentary sport of bowhunting. We ask him to compare the two sports and what he has learned from participating at a high level.
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| 0:20.6 | carried them for a three plus days on a on a long trail run you bet and the name of this |
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| 0:35.3 | done I've been aware of Lakey polls for probably 30 years because I used to be a skier and they |
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| 0:51.2 | gotten into trail running and they have great trail running polls and you may ask yourself |
| 0:57.3 | so what the heck you know I've been running for years without polls and I think polls are |
| 1:01.8 | reserved for people that can't run and maybe need polls but my goodness if you look at some |
| 1:07.2 | of these races like hard rock and and Bigfoot and and a long list of other races where there's |
| 1:12.6 | lots of climbing polls allow you to become a more efficient athlete unbelievable how much |
| 1:20.4 | using your arms helps you move up that hill it's incredible you know ever since trying out the |
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| 1:34.7 | have used those polls and I have fallen in love with trekking polls well speaking use word |
| 1:40.9 | fall and that's one of the things it's helped me prevent is a fall right when I catch a toe |
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| 1:56.8 | a second you need to get that foot placed so that you don't face place onto the trail yourself so |
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