Golden Ticket Talks | Jonathan Rea, Bandera 100K 1st Place Male

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Finn Melanson

Wilderness, Trail Running, Sports, Sports News, Mountain Running, Running, Ultrarunning, Ultra Running, News, Ultramarathon

5 • 897 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Text us your thoughts about this episode or ideas for future episodes!Welcome back to another episode of the Golden Ticket Talks in which we meet with the overall winner of the Bandera 100K, Jonathan Rea. Jonathan is currently unsponsored athlete - maybe that will change soon - based in Boulder, Colorado.In addition to race preparation, analysis, and aftermath, Jonathan and I talk about some of the parallels between trail running and his first love of baseball, the mindset and community-based...

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0:00.0	Welcome back or welcome to the single track podcast. I am your host, Finn Melanson, and this is another episode of the Golden Ticket Talks, where we meet with the overall winner of the Bandera 100K, John Ray.
0:13.2	John is currently an unsponsored athlete, maybe that will change soon, based in Boulder, Colorado. In addition to race preparation analysis and aftermath, John and I talk about some of the
0:24.7	parallels between trail running and his first love of baseball, the mindset and community-based
0:29.7	strategies he leverages to execute good race performances, how his work on environmental
0:34.9	policy influences his involvement in our sport, thoughts on
0:38.7	competition and sponsorship in a relatively niche sport, and much more. John strikes me as one of the
0:44.9	more cool, calm, and collected runners I've ever come across in our sport. It's a personality
0:50.1	that I think bodes well for consistently good performances. So, yeah, be on the lookout for a top 10 performance at Western States in June.
0:59.3	It would not surprise me one bit.
1:01.6	With that, let's get started.
1:04.4	John Ray, welcome to the single track podcast.
1:08.2	Hey, Ben. Thanks for having me.
1:10.5	I'm excited to introduce myself to your listeners and have a
1:13.9	fun chat about trail running. And I should also say congrats on winning the Bandera 100K.
1:21.3	Yeah, thanks. It was a really big step for me above any other race performances. I've had my coach responded to the result by saying
1:31.8	welcome to the big leagues. And so that's what it feels like right now. I love that. I know that you're not
1:38.9	really active on social media. And maybe we'll talk about that later in the conversation. But I put out a
1:43.9	message to the followers saying, you know, I'm having later in the conversation. But I put out a message to the
1:44.6	followers saying, you know, I'm having John on the podcast. Do you have any questions for him? And I got a
1:50.0	bunch of responses, but like three of them said, who is this guy? So I think some introductions are
1:55.9	in order. I'm sure that you're locally known in the Boulderoulder scene, but maybe I'll just start by asking
2:01.5	how did you get into trail running?
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