I guess my ultimate takeaway would be everyone should just relax and not worry about stuff too much, but that's not going to sell the magazines, right?

So let me give you the longer version of the story.

Welcome to the trailhead of a trail runner nation where we go on virtual trail runs with interesting guests that tell some great stories and help us become better runners and hopefully better human beings.

This is your first time we welcome you to the trail we are a welcoming community we're glad you could join us lace up your shoes and here we go.

We're running with Alex Hutchinson today and we all know Alex because he's been on this podcast before or if you've opened up outside magazine or read his book and we're talking about some of his favorite articles and we're going to open our minds and learn a little bit today Scott.

Lakey is a sponsor of ours and we're loving it because we love polls we reached out to our patreon subscribers and said is there anybody out there that hasn't used polls before and would like to try to use polls and Lakey was generous enough to supply a pair of polls to one of our patreon subscribers.

We wanted to get your first impressions brief what was your first big aha when you tried on some of these polls.

My favorite thing about it is that the grips were small enough for my hands I have really small hands and they fit really comfortably clicking in and out of the polls was super easy I was pleasantly surprised with how easy that was to figure out and not trip myself while I was doing it.

That's right they have all new styles and colors that they just released here in 2022 make sure you get a pair and you can get yourself a pair of Lakey polls by going to our website to the deals page and clicking on their link.

And finding out all the details of how you can run with polls as well.

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Welcome to another edition of trail runner nation my name is Don Freeman and I'm Scott war and today's episode we have Alex Hutchinson he is a best selling author one of our favorite running books and if you could look at the shelf behind me I have a lot of running

books that we've accumulated over the years and this is one of our favorite the title of the book is called endure mine body and the curiously elastic limits of human performance if that title didn't catch you.

Nothing should it is a great book you need to have it on your bookshelf it's a great book you need to join in he's also a frequent contributor to outside online with his articles and today we're going to talk to him about some of the recent articles he's published.

Don and I were just talking about how fortunate we are to have a best selling author like Alex Hutchinson on and if you go back into the archives of trail runner nation he actually agreed to come on and I just laugh when I even think this come on to one of our game show episodes what the heck Don what we were we even thinking when we asked without well Alex could come on he would be a great guest for a game show.

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