I think, you know, in a lot of ways suffering is glorified, you know, because I don't like suffering.

I don't, you know, but it's inherent to living and being on this planet.

And, you know, puking for three days, shuffling on the trail, connoisseurs.

Hello, and welcome to Trailrunner Nation. This week, we welcome Black Diamond

athlete Joe Grant. Joe has run and raced around the world from Italy's

Tour de Giants to creative local adventures in his home state of Colorado.

He's smart, thoughtful, and generally, and all around wonderful and

introspective guy talking with him this week will be our special guest hosts and a frost

and Stephanie Howell. That's all coming up in just a moment.

Another company we strongly believe in is Path Projects, and we recently received a tag

tweet from Joshua Schlag. And here's what he said, I've heard we are nation talk about path

projects for a while now. I finally bought a pair of shorts last month, and I wish I had done it

sooner. Big old pockets in the back for the gigantic phone. Scott, you're always talking about

that. Plus, be smaller one for nutrition, dog poop bags, and they look great dog poop bags.

I never thought of using that pocket in the front for dog poop bags. Path Projects makes great

shirts, shorts, bass liners, hats. They make great products with supremely good technical fabrics

for an affordable price. Go to pathprojects.com and pick up your pair. And the thing is, Joshua

doesn't even have a dog. I think they're very ill. Hey everyone, welcome to trail runner nation

podcast. You have a takeover with myself and a frost and Stephanie Howell. Today we locked Scott

and Don out of the house and set them on a run with a met and the wrong direction. So we have

plenty of time to speak to our new guest today, who's Joe Grant. Yeah, so you're in for a tree

today. Along with myself, we have Anna Frost, who is probably one of the most well-known female

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