EP 492 Allow Your Happiness to Run Wild: Zoë Rom
Trail Runner Nation
Trail Runner Nation
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Zoë Rom had a great birthday this year. She woke up and set out to run the 17-mile, 5400' ascent to Capitol Peak. Capitol Peak is one of the infamous "14ers" (peaks in Colorado over 14,000' elevation). It is a class 4 climb that is rated "high" in exposure, rockfall potential, and Route-finding. It is also know for the "knife edge" near the top. She had a good day and ended up setting the supported FKT in 5 hours 37 minutes.
Zoë is also the assistant editor at Trail Runner Magazine, runner, climber, coach and host of the new Trail Runner Magazine in-house podcast called DNF.
We talk to Zoë about her FKT and about how DNFs are successes that propel us to become better.
Check out Zoë's coaching website
Photos by TJ David
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| 0:00.0 | Failure wasn't a speed bump on the way to success. Failure was the stair step to success. And I thought that that was a totally new |
| 0:09.2 | Approach for me like it was a totally new way of framing the process of getting to where I want to be as a person and athlete |
| 0:18.3 | Hey, Don. Let's talk about some John G running gear. You've been running around in that five inch AFO middle short. Haven't you? |
| 0:25.8 | I have and I'm excited to talk about it because there are hyper light weight |
| 0:30.0 | Fast drying and moisture wicking brief liner and that's what counts |
| 0:34.3 | You need that moisture wicking brief liner and there are eight cool colors |
| 0:37.6 | And you've been running in the men's runtera sst |
| 0:41.2 | Yeah, that t-shirt is it's become one of my favorite t-shirts because it's just soft and it looks like it's very durable |
| 0:48.8 | You can run multiple times in between washes because it has this volcanic ash embedded into the fabric |
| 0:55.8 | And it saves water because you don't have to wash it every time you run |
| 0:59.7 | Hey, the men's running rain runner pack jacket |
| 1:03.3 | We're looking both looking forward to a rainy season because it has a great fitting hood |
| 1:07.2 | It's as you open up a rain jacket |
| 1:09.4 | You know if it's got the right stuff and it really keeps water out and this one has the right materials |
| 1:14.6 | And it packs within itself. It's lightweight. You can take it on a run even if it's not going to rain at least you have it |
| 1:21.0 | So if you want to check out the John G gear go to trail runner nation go on in the deals section |
| 1:26.6 | Click on the banner go directly to their website or go to johng.com |
| 1:30.9 | Make sure you use the code trn 15 you'll get 15% off |
| 1:35.0 | Good or sunglasses will not make you run faster |
| 1:38.0 | But they will make you look good or |
| 1:40.5 | I am excited to be partnered with good because I bought my first pair of good or sunglasses probably about three years ago |
| 1:46.4 | I heard about them went to their website found these really cool looking sunglasses |
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