Des Linden: Is Her Trail Running Chapter Just Beginning?

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Finn Melanson

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

5 • 897 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Text us your thoughts about this episode or ideas for future episodes! Des Linden joins us live in Olympic Valley the week before the 2025 Western States 100 for a wide-ranging conversation about her deepening relationship with the trail and ultrarunning scene. In this episode, we dig into Des's recent adventures off-road — from training with Ruth Croft in New Zealand, to participating in the Western States Training Camp last month, to her pacing duties this year for Joe McConaughy. With eac...

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0:00.0	All right, we are back. This is day four of single tracks, 2025, Western States 100, pre-race coverage.
0:07.9	Today we're talking with both Des Lyndon and Scott Jurek.
0:11.3	A little bit of station ID. A quick thanks to our partners, Norda, Gore, Nack, and Raid for making all of this coverage possible.
0:20.6	Des, great time you're here today.
0:23.4	Thanks for having me.
0:24.1	You're in Olympic Valley.
0:24.9	I know.
0:25.4	It's exciting.
0:27.1	Welcome up somewhere beautiful today.
0:29.4	It was a long haul to get here, but I'm excited.
0:31.8	Cool.
0:33.0	I think the first question I have for you,
0:35.9	and we'll probably touch on a lot of topics
0:37.5	today, I was reading a Runner's World article from December of last year, and you were noted
0:42.5	as going independent, no longer having an agent.
0:46.7	And this is a hot topic in our space right now.
0:49.0	Like a lot of people are contemplating, do I get representation?
0:51.7	Do I not?
0:52.7	Is there enough money in the sport for it to be possible?
0:55.0	What do I do? You had an agent for 13 years. Can you talk about sort of like the pros and the
0:59.8	cons and why you went the way you did? It's a big question. But yeah, I mean, I think there's a place
1:05.8	and time for all of it. Early in my career, like I didn't know the ropes, didn't have the connections,
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