Drafting The Ultrarunning Dream Team

Singletrack

Finn Melanson

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

5 • 897 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Text us your thoughts about this episode or ideas for future episodes! In this clip from the latest edition of the Long Run Archives on the Singletrack Podcast, Finn Melanson, Brett Hornig, and Jeff Colt discuss a fascinating hypothetical scenario: If you were starting a brand-new ultrarunning company (whether shoes, gear, nutrition, or anything else), and every athlete in the market was a free agent, which four would you prioritize adding to your team, and why? The trio explores the s...

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0:00.0	Welcome back or welcome to the single track podcast. I'm your host, Finn Melanson, and wow,
0:06.7	life has been interesting to say the least over the last few months. There is a lot to update you on.
0:12.9	We did a year ahead episode. This was back in January, sort of plotting out where we wanted to be
0:17.9	at the end of this year, even midway. I wanted to do some sort of
0:22.6	mid-year review episode at the end of last month, but with Western States, twisted fork,
0:28.6	heading back to New York to see family for a few weeks, just didn't get around to it. That said,
0:35.6	in that same time frame, I did put out a call on our Instagram channel for some Ask Me Anything material and many of you sent over some really good prompts. So I think in addition to doing a review of where we're at, which I think could be fun. I'll also address some of those questions as well. I head back to
0:55.5	Maine this Sunday, August 3rd, and a few days after that, I'm taking another crack at the 100-mile
1:02.9	wilderness section of the Maine Appalachian Trail, or as Myron Avery, and I like to call it the
1:08.6	Silver Isle. And maybe in that in-between period,
1:12.4	I'll record it there and we'll get it out, you know, sometime before UTMB. So stay tuned.
1:18.1	In this episode, we are doing something unique. Maybe it's cool. Maybe it's sacrilegious.
1:24.7	Maybe it's the future. Maybe we never do it again. But I love to experiment,
1:28.1	and I've been thinking about this for a while. We recorded a classic long run archives episode
1:33.9	a few days ago. It was myself, Brett Hornig, Jeff Colt. And instead of publishing the full thing
1:40.5	here, I'm dripping sections of it one at a time and I think we're going to end up
1:45.2	publishing five to six total. Really curious to see what you guys think of these shorter episodes
1:50.7	versus longer episodes. We do it all the time on YouTube. Sometimes I never publish the full
1:54.6	episode there and I just do clips because that platform I think is just amenable to that.
2:01.1	But yeah, really curious to see what you guys think.
2:03.4	Do you like consuming the segments one by one?
2:05.1	Are the shorter episodes interesting?
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