Gordy Ainsleigh: Trail Running Makes Me Happy
Trail Runner Nation
Trail Runner Nation
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🗓️ 28 March 2014
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
"One of the most wonderful things that has happened to the world is Trail Running", says Gordy Ainsleigh in a face to face conversation we recently enjoyed. Gordy talks about where ultra trail running has gone and his thoughts on where is is going. He talks about his passion for the sport and his secret to life-long running. He answers some of the Nation Members' questions too. Find out why Gordy believes in cotton t-shirts, grape juice and beards - even in the summer months.
Gordy has finished Western States 100 twenty-two times, most recently in June, 2007, though he unofficially completed the race in just over 30 hours (the official cuttoff) in 2010. his fastest time is 20:55 in 1984, after starting 8 minutes late.
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| 0:00.0 | And today's podcast has brought to you in part by VASC footwear, we're going to do a |
| 0:14.0 | course in review today, course in review by none other live and in person, then speed |
| 0:18.8 | goat Carl. Carl, we're talking about the speed goat 50k, is that right? |
| 0:23.0 | That's right, speed goat 50k. Okay, so you're the rules, Carl, if you're not not familiar |
| 0:27.6 | with the rules, you have two minutes, I have a timer set. We're going to ask you a |
| 0:32.0 | series of questions about the course. If your answer is long, we will cut you off. |
| 0:37.8 | Well, and we do a good pace. Yeah, we do it only out of love, making sure we get to the |
| 0:43.0 | final question. So it's not rude, it's not even that fact that all the details aren't important. |
| 0:47.8 | Sometimes you need to get out of that aid station. So when I did this, I only got through |
| 0:51.4 | question number two and then I took it. All right, bring it on. So who's going first? |
| 0:57.2 | I'll go first. Okay, get the timer started. Ready, go. Where is the speed goat 50k located, Carl? |
| 1:03.6 | Speed goat 50k is located at Snowbridge, ski resort on July 19th. What is the race distance? |
| 1:10.4 | The race distance is 50k, roughly. I just started the eyeball that. Yeah, 12,000 feet of climb. |
| 1:18.9 | It's a really hard climb on the race and it's all at altitude between 7,900 and 11,051 feet. |
| 1:25.4 | What is the percentage or trail versus pavement? It's 100%. Well, it's 100% dirt. |
| 1:32.4 | There is zero pavement. Some of it is service roads and some of it is nasty creek beds. |
| 1:38.0 | Some of it is cross country on a 40 degree slope at 11,000 feet. Some of it is beautiful, |
| 1:43.1 | single track. Most of it is all in the wildflowers and it's as hard as I could possibly make it. |
| 1:48.9 | What kind of temperatures do we expect in July 19th? |
| 1:53.6 | Tempts in the morning are roughly about 50 degrees, maybe even a little warmer, 75 during the day. |
| 1:59.6 | Typically thunderstorms are coming in the afternoon and usually doesn't rain, so you |
| 2:05.2 | tell us pretty dry. So it's been good for eight years in a row already. How far apart are the |
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