EP 520: State of The Nation
Trail Runner Nation
Trail Runner Nation
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2021
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
This past year has broken from the normal and thrown some curveballs, challenges and outright disappointments to our lives inside trail running. We thought it would be a good discussion to talk about the state of The Nation, the trail running community that we all enjoy and love.
Andy Jones-Wilkins joins us to talk about some of the changes and what that may mean to our sport.
Links of interest:
Ultrarunner Magazine's article from 2017 written by 9 important races in the US, "Why We Won't Pay: UTMB, ITRA and the 'Pay For Points' Racket"
AJW's Taproom article, "Forty-One Years at the American River 50 Mile: The Longevity of Tim Twietmeyer
Hire Andy as a coach! or check out his weekly Tap Room at iRunFar
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The guy's got a lot going on. |
| 0:08.1 | No matter what happens, no matter what's coming at him, he stops everything and runs |
| 0:12.5 | the AR50 for 41 consecutive years. |
| 0:17.6 | I mean, I can't think of anything except for maybe going to the bathroom that I've done |
| 0:22.7 | for 41 consecutive years. |
| 0:27.3 | Before we get into the state of the nation, we want to share with you one of our favorite |
| 0:33.7 | gear partners. |
| 0:35.1 | And when we decide to partner with somebody, it's because we absolutely believe in it. |
| 0:39.4 | And we're excited to tell you about this innovative shoe lacing system that will give |
| 0:43.8 | you the best fit ever for your shoes. |
| 0:46.8 | If you have a good fitting shoe, it's going to reduce blisters and it's going to improve |
| 0:50.6 | your performance. |
| 0:52.2 | And Fini, who's a biomechanics guy from Bow of Fit Systems, is with us to tell us how |
| 0:57.2 | this works. |
| 0:58.2 | Dan, how can the Bow of Fit System prevent blisters? |
| 1:02.1 | So if you are getting some sort of big blister, it means that your shoe has some sort of |
| 1:05.6 | mismatch to the dimensions of your foot. |
| 1:08.3 | And that's really what we're about measuring is within our lab, we'll say what variables |
| 1:12.4 | are sensitive to fit. |
| 1:14.4 | And we see that if we improve the fit of a shoe, we improve these variables. |
| 1:18.0 | You're most likely not going to get a blister because your shoe is fitting better. |
| 1:22.0 | But what's even more interesting is we can find some other improvements like more efficient |
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