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EP 508: Front v. Back of the Pack with Richard Kresser & Will Fortin

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Fitness, Sports, Running, Health & Fitness

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

What are the differences when you are racing at the front of the pack v. back? Richard Kresser and Will Fortin join us to help us understand. Richard finished 1st in the 2016 Bigfoot 200 and then turned around the next month and swept the Tahoe 200 course with good friend Will Fortin. We discuss each experience and which he enjoyed more. Will adds an additional perspective as an aid station captain at Bigfoot where they have to stay open for over 50 hours!

Check out the 2 previous episodes with Richard: How to Race in -25° and Snow and Chasing Volcanoes

Here is the video of Richard's Tour de Volcanoes. Richard also puts on skim races in Washington State HERE

Cover Photo by Howe Stern

Transcript

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I'll add something to that because it's, you know, Richard had mentioned before some

0:09.0

of the mental energy you spend out on the trails and how difficult it is to have the pressure

0:14.8

of being in first place in that worry, right?

0:17.4

And of course, there's a physical aspect, but, you know, we're social creatures.

0:21.6

So there's also a social aspect and I think part of why I think neither of us ever had

0:26.5

a great worry is it's so easy to get along with Richard and we have such a good time together,

0:33.6

beer or no beer. He's a great person to hang out with. It's fun to like shoot stories around with

0:38.4

him and that is a great lightness when you're out there for that long. And I think other people

0:44.2

who have run 200s will say the same thing times when they run with somebody else are remembered

0:48.8

very fondly and the deep darks alone are difficult.

0:56.4

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1:01.8

That's why they call it exoskin. I finally got it Freeman. That's why they call it exoskin.

1:07.3

That's right. And some people look and they say, I don't even like to drive that far when they

1:12.6

talk about running. Well, some of this stuff is only possible from secret weapons like exoskin.

1:18.1

Wrapping those socks around your feet or in your case, Scott, your new favorite item.

1:22.4

I've probably worn these every run for the last three months or two months that I've had them.

1:30.4

And that's the arm sleeves. They make some compression arm sleeves that feel good,

1:35.8

they move and they're just great feeling. They just make me feel like Superman. And I've got to say,

1:41.4

you look a lot like Superman in those. They're very cool, Scott. The arm sleeves, let me tell you what's

1:46.2

great about them is not only they look good and feel good, but man, they're bulletproof.

1:51.8

They look the same quality as the day I took them out of the package.

1:56.4

And that's exoskin. They don't stop with arm sleeves. They have compression shorts. They have socks,

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