Don't Give a Voice to Your Suffering with Gary Robbins
Trail Runner Nation
Trail Runner Nation
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2016
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Gary Robbins has won the HURT 100-mile trail race 3 times and many other races. He is also a coach and race director. Gary joins The Nation to talk about
- his experience at Barkley Marathons
- "scraping"
- his "10 essentials for safe backcountry adventures, trail running style"
- pacing and fueling
- "fade-rate"
Check out
- Gary's coaching site
- Gary's Coast Mountain Trail Series
- The Squamish 50
- The Red Bull 400 m at Whistler
photo credit Brian McCurdy
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Ultra running magazine. You know, it's the invisible glue that binds our community together. |
| 0:07.0 | You know, you're absolutely right, Don. I'm laughing, but I'm laughing because it's true. |
| 0:18.0 | And I surprised you with what I was going to say. You had no idea. You did. And you kind of made a face when you said it. |
| 0:24.0 | You know, I just got my November issue. Right. Me too. Do you know what's on the cover? |
| 0:28.0 | It's wrapped in plastic because it should be because if you're not a member of this community, you shouldn't be thumbing your fingers through it. |
| 0:34.0 | That's why it's wrapped. It's to keep the keep the ref wrap out is to keep the road runners out. |
| 0:40.0 | The November issue has a cover of a, you know, I don't even know who it is. And you'll come on Scott. |
| 0:45.0 | People probably go on Scott. Come on. You don't know who that is. Well, it's a runner. That's all I know. |
| 0:50.0 | It's a runner running a race. And he's holding it looks like his son. I'm making assumptions. Right. |
| 0:55.0 | And they're looking at each other's eyes. And I can see a communication from the father to the son saying, you know what? |
| 1:01.0 | You can do hard things in this life. Yeah. That's what I got out of that. Yeah. Yeah. That's awesome. |
| 1:06.0 | And that's part of the invisible glue that I'm talking about. It is, it is what binds us. |
| 1:11.0 | And the cover's not the best part, Mr. Freeman. Yeah. Well, tell me, you know, there's lots of stuff in there. They have done a really, |
| 1:17.0 | really good job of breaking it up and making themes. They have regular contributors. |
| 1:23.0 | You know, and Trace and as a regular contributor, Ellie Greenwood is regular Joe Yuhan, who we just interviewed is, is, is a regular contributor. |
| 1:32.0 | One that's coming up. Gary Dudney is a regular contributor. Matt Lay. We've had him on here. Right. |
| 1:38.0 | Maybe we work for ultra running magazine. I don't know. Maybe we do. Maybe we're not coming up with these guests at all. Maybe we're just thumbing through the pages. |
| 1:45.0 | Maybe they need to sue us for plagiarism. I don't know. We asked if we could do it. Anyway, you shouldn't have, you should not go another month without one. |
| 1:54.0 | If you don't have a subscription, get a subscription, go to a trailrunnernation.com, click on the partners page, click on the subscribe. You get $20 off a subscription. |
| 2:04.0 | And it goes to $29.95 for a full year subscription to ultra running magazine. You'd be silly. You would be in a, in a, in a state of a bonk if you didn't go and get a gears. |
| 2:16.0 | A subscription. This episode is brought to you in part by HelloFresh. HelloFresh.com. HelloFresh. We came across. It is a meal in a box. |
| 2:28.0 | But it's not any meal, Scott. Good food in a box. Good food. They, they were kind enough to send Don and I, a meal plan had three meals. |
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