EP 490: The Rise of the UltraRunners

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🗓️ 25 September 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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One of the many conversations we enjoy on the trail is how each of us were introduced to trail and ultra running. Each of us has our own story. Although each of these stories are unique, there are some relatable common threads. In the book, The Rise of the Ultra Runners - A Journey to the Edge of Human Endurance, Author Adharananad Finn explores these stories as he walks through his journey into ultra running with the final destination of running the Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc (UTMB), a 106-mile race through the French Alps.

Check out Adharanand's web site: The Way of the Runner and his podcast

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0:00.0	And I was at the, in the office in London, at the, the water cooler, you know, the tea point.
0:05.8	And this guy comes over to me and he says, oh, you run ultra-marathons, don't you?
0:10.3	And I was like, at that point, I hadn't, I think this made it being before, or I didn't consider myself
0:15.2	on ultra-marathons. Anyways, I said, no, no, no, no. He said, oh, triatholons. And I was like, no,
0:20.6	no, no, no. He said, what, just marathons. And so that really got me thinking, I thought, yeah,
0:26.8	we're really in this age now where marathons are not a big deal. We're in the just marathons era.
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1:27.6	The other day, I pulled on a pair of exoskin socks. I wasn't wearing them for running. I was just
1:32.0	wearing them every day wear. And I thought, these are my favorite socks. I don't have it
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