Candice Burt: 200 Mile Racing Scene, Athlete Sponsorship Models, Long Distance FKTs (Sunday Conversation)

Singletrack

Finn Melanson

Sports, Wilderness, Ultramarathon, Sports News, Trail Running, Running, Ultra Running, News, Mountain Running, Ultrarunning

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Candice Burt is the Founder of Destination Trail, a trail running events company that puts on popular races like the Moab 240, Tahoe 200, and Bigfoot 200. Timestamps: 1:37 - Arizona Trail, interest in long trail FKT scene, remarking on Heather Anderson’s recent unsupported FKT23:15 - athlete sponsorship discussion, working with brands, content angles on the social platforms, spring energy comments45:30 - being a female business owner in the ultra community, evolution of the 200 mile scene, r...

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0:00.0	Welcome back or welcome to the Single Track Podcast. I'm your host, Finn Melanson. In this time around,
0:05.6	we are chatting with someone I have wanted to have on the show for a while, Candice Burt. For regular
0:10.5	listeners of the show, we are coming off a three-and-a-half-hour conversation with Michael Versteegg.
0:14.9	And honestly, I kind of wish we had that here. There's just so much I wanted to ask Candice,
0:20.1	in retrospect, especially
0:21.3	around the mechanics of race directing and the state of the events industry in general.
0:26.8	Just means that we have to do around two in the future. In this particular conversation,
0:31.3	we cover her interest in the Arizona Trail, her experience as a sponsored athlete and
0:36.1	taking on partnerships as an event director,
0:39.0	being a female business owner in the ultra community, and the evolution of the 200-mile
0:44.1	racing scene.
0:46.2	Candice Burt, it is a pleasure to have you on the single track podcast. How are you doing today?
0:50.4	I'm doing great. Thanks for having me on.
0:53.2	Yeah, I'm really excited to have you here. I was telling you
0:56.0	offline there are so many topics that I want to cover with you. I'm not sure we'll get to all of
0:59.6	them, but hopefully a bunch. The first, you know, we talk a lot on this show about long distance
1:05.4	trails and FKT attempts and just like the aura around a lot of these things like the PCT and the A.T.
1:12.3	And the Colorado Trail.
1:14.0	I know that the Arizona Trail has meant a lot to you.
1:17.0	It's something that's really only coming on my radar as that area of the country becomes
1:22.1	more interesting to me.
1:23.8	Talk about what attracted you to that trail to begin with it and what makes it worth you
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