EP 427: HOKA's 100K World Record Challenge Announcement!!

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🗓️ 2 May 2019

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Hoka One One may have kept the worlds best running secret for the world record attempt May 4th 2019.

When a company like Hoka looks for the perfect race venue and finds calendar doesn't meet the criteria, they build their own event.

Join us as we talk with the Senior Sports Marketing Manager, Mike McMannis and Head Product Designer Matt Head about the details behind the event and the new CARBON X shoe.

You can join the event LIVE by logging into the Hoka One One FaceBook page and watch the event go down. Hoka has provided professional videographers and 4 professional commentators to give you the best seat in the house.

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0:00.0	RunRagnar.com slash TRN, that's where you can find out about the Ragnar Trail series.
0:09.6	Scott, you know what I think of when I pull up to a traffic signal?
0:12.2	No, I think of Ragnar Trail because there's three colors, green, yellow and red.
0:17.8	Those are the three colors of the loops.
0:21.0	There's three ways to compete in this Ragnar.
0:23.5	One is get seven of your favorite friends, so a team of eight go out and you start running
0:28.6	the green loop, which is the easiest loop.
0:31.2	Then you have someone do the yellow loop, which is more difficult, and then you have someone
0:35.6	run the red loop, which is most difficult.
0:38.4	Then you do that over and over and over until all eight people have run all three loops,
0:44.2	the green, yellow and the red.
0:45.8	I got it.
0:46.8	So what's the second way, Scott?
0:47.8	The second way is you can get an ultra team together.
0:52.2	This is half as many runners, so three of your favorite friends, four people, they do
0:56.6	the same thing, except it's just with four people, so you're running more loops.
1:01.2	That sounds altered to me.
1:02.6	Now here's the key.
1:04.3	New for 2019 is the black loop, and this is for the ultra runners.
1:10.6	What you do is you get your best friend, and it's a team of two.
1:14.7	You go out together and you run the green loop.
1:18.1	You have to finish it together, then you have about an hour rest.
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