Hey, welcome back to the single track.

On the pod with us today, we are fortunate to have one of the most important, most influential people in the sport of mountain ultra trail running.

We get to figuratively sit down with Dylan Bowman.

Now, his list of athletic accolades make up a seemingly never-ending scroll-down ultrasound.

He's won the San Diego 100.

He's won the Ultra Trail Mount Fuji and Tara Weera.

He's been a podium finisher at Western States.

He put together a seventh place finish at the 2017 UTMB, which I think most pundits recognize as probably the most competitive

ultra of all time in the history of our sport. And most recently, he's coming off a second

place finish at the 2021 Hard Rock 100, where he ran the fastest time ever by an American athlete.

So he is still at the top of his game from a

performance standpoint. But as you will find in this conversation, Dylan is on another mission now

too. And that's to shepherd this sport into its next iteration, the next generation. We talk about

this new role in a number of different ways. We start with his new business pillars,

his opportunity to take on a broadcasting rule, providing live coverage at the 2021 Western

States 100 and upcoming at the 2021 UTMB. We talk about his thoughts on being a pro athlete in the

sport and what can be done in the future to create more opportunity

and sustainability there. We talk about the future of this sport in general and what it might

look like a decade from now and how we're going to get there. And finally, we even wax philosophical

as Dylan talks about being a creator and a change maker in the sport and his strategies for confronting

and overcoming

the inevitable resistance. In addition to being well-spoken, I think what inspires me the most about

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