Chris Vargo: Mountain Crusher

Trail Runner Nation

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Sports, Running

4.5 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2013

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

Chris Vargo is relatively new to the trail running scene, but has quickly found his place at the front of the pack; including a 3rd place finish at the 2013 North Face Endurance 50 Mile in San Francisco. You can watch a great video of the 2013 TNF50 lead runners HERE. Chris talks about how he started in trail running, his training including pool runnning, his successes, the TNF50 race, and overcoming his alcoholism.

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0:00.0	The tailwind tip of the trail is brought to you by trail runner-nation.
0:11.8	Nice.
0:12.8	I like the way you do that.
0:15.0	I actually have Sally McCray on the line with us and we're going to talk about speed.
0:21.4	All right.
0:22.4	And this unfortunately happened to me yesterday.
0:26.2	Oh.
0:27.2	I grew up in this ultra running sport with people that had run many more miles than
0:32.4	I had.
0:33.4	And I always heard the phrase speed kills, meaning you don't want to go out there and go too fast.
0:40.3	You don't want to go out there and run speed all the time.
0:42.8	Well, just yesterday I was down in Southern California.
0:46.8	Oh, you like that?
0:47.8	I think it's called SoCal.
0:48.8	SoCal.
0:49.8	SoCal.
0:50.8	SoCal.
0:51.8	SoCal.
0:52.8	And I was with someone and we were done working and we just said, hey, let's go for a run
0:59.5	down on the beach.
1:01.4	And he has legs that are three quarters of his height is from his legs.
1:06.7	And so I took two or three steps for every one stride of his.
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