Hey folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports Podcast. I'm your host, Mason. Today is a throwback

Thursday episode. Excuse my dog, he's walking in the background. But before we jump in, I wanted to

remind you we have an adventure grant going right now. We're going to close the application

February 22nd. If you or anyone you know is doing an adventure this year and they need some funding,

we're giving away three grants, $1,000, $500,250 plus gear. And, you know, it's for anyone doing an adventure in 2023 have them apply uh we're going to be

giving it away to somebody and you might have a pretty good chance of getting it i'm just going to say

that so uh you know apply submit what you want to do and also uh this episode is great i remember

this being one of the first episodes I edited.

So my editing skills have improved a lot since then.

The sound quality is okay on this one, but I remember Pete being so inspiring because at the time,

I was kind of a part-time stay-at-home dad as well.

And so I got a lot of inspiration from Pete.

And I just loved his name,

Pete Ripmaster. Pretty cool. So let's hear this story. It was so inspiring, so cool. And let's go ahead and jump in. Hey friends, I have an incredible guy with us today.

His name is Peter Ritmaster, and Peter is an ultra-distance runner, but he says he doesn't want to be identified first as just an ultra-distance runner.

He wants to be identified as an adventurer first, just an ultra-distance runner. He wants to be identified as an

adventurer first who does ultra-distance running. But when I say ultra-distance, this is going to blow

your mind. You remember that little dog sled race up in Alaska that's over a thousand miles long?

Did you know that people run that too? Now I'm not talking about a 50 mile or a

hundred mile or we're talking about a thousand mile run. Peter, welcome to the program.

Thank you, Kurt, for having me.

I tell you what, when I first heard that people run the Iditarod, I was blown away.

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