Ep. 036: Dale Garland - Ultra Distance Mountain Running
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2015
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Ever wonder what it would be like to not only climb mountains, but to have the strength to run over and through mountains for days? There are those who do. Dale Garland began his ultra distance career by running the 400 miles of the Colorado trail. He now serves as the Director of the Hardrock 100.
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| 0:00.0 | the elevation gain and descent is about the same as running from sea level to the top of Mount Everest and back. |
| 0:06.0 | It's about 33,000 feet of ascent and then 33,000 feet of descent. |
| 0:32.7 | Thank you. This is the adventure sports podcast. |
| 0:35.2 | Brought to you by 180 Tack. |
| 0:36.9 | Get out there and have some fun welcome to the adventure sports podcast this is your host kurt linville we have a fun |
| 0:53.9 | show today about distance running, trail running, mountain running, |
| 0:58.2 | ultra-marathoning, and especially about the Hard Rock 100. |
| 1:03.1 | Dale Garland is our guest. |
| 1:05.0 | Dale Garland grew up in Colorado. |
| 1:07.3 | He moved to Durango, Colorado in 1978. |
| 1:14.0 | And since 1992, he has been the director of the Hard Rock 100 race. Dale, welcome to the program. Thanks, Kurt. Glad to be here. So, Dale, take a |
| 1:22.0 | minute to tell us about yourself and a little bit more about your connection to these distance runs. |
| 1:27.1 | Sure. |
| 1:34.4 | Well, as you mentioned, I moved to Durango in 1978 and actually kind of been, |
| 1:37.0 | that was part of the 1970s, you know, running boom. |
| 1:48.8 | And fortunately for me, we had a couple of really ardent and very dedicated runners who kind of took me under their wing and kind of trained me in the shorter distance running. And I grew up in the 10K to marathon kind of sequence. |
| 1:56.8 | And then in the 1980s, I became interested in trail running. |
| 2:04.1 | And it's all kind of started. |
| 2:08.0 | My foray into ultra-distance running started in 1988 when I, with three other guys, planned, |
| 2:15.2 | and then ran the Colorado Trail as part of its opening. |
| 2:18.9 | And that's what kind of opened my eyes to the whole sport of ultra-distance running. |
| 2:22.6 | Wow, the Colorado Trail, for listeners who don't know, that trail goes from Denver to |
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