Welcome back or welcome to the Single Track podcast.

I'm your host to Finna Lanssen and in this episode we meet with David Kilgore.

David serves as the trail and ultra running athlete manager for on running and in this conversation we talk about how he got his role at the company, his advice for navigating the negotiation process as a potential sponsored athlete, whether athletes

can focus on both performance and social media in their careers, and also whether the time is

ripe for the formation of brand-sponsored trail running teams, among many other topics.

I know that David wears many hats in the running world. It's

impressive, it's fascinating, but this was an awesome chance to zero in on his role at on running.

And just to talk about a topic that, as regular listeners of the show, know we have been

kind of obsessed about the last few weeks and that is

the evolution and current state of the athlete sponsor relationship so I think you'll enjoy this

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I'm super stoked about this partnership.

Almost as stoked, I would say, as Chris Mocko when he secured a similar

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