Hey, everybody. How is it going? Welcome to Pillars. It is always great to have you here. Of course, I am your host, Dylan Bowman, and today I am very excited to be joined by my North Face teammates and the long trail multi-day ultra phenom that is Corey

Woltering.

Corey has been in the sport for a long time now.

I'm sure most of you know who he is.

But recently he has been making waves in the fastest known time movement that has been gaining a lot of steam, especially during

COVID times.

He, of course, set the speed record on the 1,200-mile Ice Hage Trail back in 2020.

And then just a couple of weeks ago, he had another amazing run setting a new standard on the 350-mile

Pin Hodi Trail down in Alabama. I have been around the Ultra World for more than a decade

now, and though I've never done this stuff myself, I am just so impressed and intrigued by what it

takes to get through these huge multi-day and sometimes multi-week journeys that are becoming

increasingly popular for athletes in the sport, both as personal projects and now sometimes even as

races with the rise of 200 plus mile events. And Corey has proven himself to be quite good at

these epic undertakings. So he was a great person to talk to about what it takes, how to prepare, how to manage sleep

and gear and crew support and all the other complicated logistics necessary to make

these heroic missions a little bit more approachable and a little bit less

daunting. I plan to put this episode out this week because Corey was following up his

Pin Hode FKT effort with a run at the brand new Kokadona 250 mile race in Arizona,

which was a very ambitious back-to-back effort

that proved to be just a little bit too much for Corey

in too close of a succession.

Corey posted on his Instagram yesterday that he was forced to withdraw from the

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