Welcome back or welcome to the single track podcast.

I'm your host, Finn Melanson, and in our last episode of 2022, we are talking with Dan Kurtz,

a professional trail runner based in Norwich, Vermont.

This is a wide-ranging conversation where we talk about the disillusionment that can often come about in the collegiate and post-collegiate track and road running worlds,

how Dan landed in the sub ultra trail racing scene, building a running team in the Northeast and the pros and cons of being an aspiring pro trail runner in this part of the country,

the highs and the lows that Dan went through this past year and the

lessons learned trying to make it in the sport, and a lot more. Before we get started, this

episode is brought to you by gnarly nutrition and Kodiak cakes. Use code single track 20 for 20%

off gnarly nutrition products and use code single track 15 for 15% off codiac cakes products. With that,

let's get started. Dan Kurtz, great to finally have you on the single track podcast.

Yeah, Finn, thank you very much. I'm excited to be on here. We were talking offline, I think, in the last four or five

months alone, we've had five or six fairly long phone conversations and got a good group

chat going with a mutual friend, Jack Kenzel. And I think they've been fairly substantial

conversations, not just about like your own athletic career, but just general curiosity

about where the sports headed and all the nuts and bolts of the athlete sponsor relationship,

stuff like that. I have a whole list of things I want to cover in this episode. I'm sure we'll get

to a lot of it, but just to set the table for any folks that aren't familiar with you, can you give like an elevator pitch about

Like what your specialty is in the trail and old running scene and how you got into it?

Well, well, Finn, yeah, thanks for having me on like I said like you said, I think it's been a little while in the making now.

But as far as my specialty in the trail world goes, I'm not sure I have one yet.

I don't know what it is.

Yeah, a little elevator pitch.

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