Grand Slam Track Files For Bankruptcy, We’re Owed $272K + Athing Mu Switches Coaches, Sinclaire Johnson Nearly Breaks The Road Mile WR (Bonus: Interview w/ Ben Rosario On The Marathon Project)
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4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2025
⏱️ 143 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode, Chris, Mac and Preet discuss:
– Grand Slam Track declares for bankruptcy
– Our partnership with them and being owed $272K
– The impact of the bankruptcy declaration and the athletes
– Recapping the European Cross Country Championships
– Athing Mu has parted ways with coach Bobby Kersee
– Highlights from the Merrie Mile and Honolulu Marathon weekend
– Interview with Ben Rosario ahead of the Marathon Project this weekend (1:35:34)
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Hosts: Chris Chavez | @chris_j_chavez on Instagram + Mac Fleet | @macfleet on Instagram + Preet Majithia | @preet_athletics on Instagram
Produced by: Jasmine Fehr | @jasminefehr on Instagram
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| 0:00.0 | All right, all right, all right. It is December 17th. I'm Chris Chavez. I'm Prit McGithier. |
| 0:11.7 | And I'm Mack Fleet. |
| 0:13.6 | Yeah, Mac, it's been a while, I guess, since you've been on the show. |
| 0:17.8 | Brought you on because you and I just spent some fun days in Hawaii for the Merry Mile |
| 0:24.6 | and the Honolulu Marathon. |
| 0:26.6 | So we will be talking about that. |
| 0:28.6 | We were on Island Time, which was a time zone that I was just not used to to be back five hours of everyone else on the East Coast. |
| 0:41.7 | Welcome to my world, Chris. I'm always back five hours of you. Yeah. Well, it's just so interesting |
| 0:47.0 | to wake up and people are halfway through their day or on the other side of things. Once it rolls |
| 0:53.8 | around to be like 5 p.m., no one texts you at |
| 0:57.7 | all because everyone's like asleep. I guess, Mack, that's sort of what it's like for you when |
| 1:01.7 | we're on the East Coast, right? Yeah, but I mean, I live on East Coast time because that's just |
| 1:08.7 | how everything operates. So, yeah, I guess it was kind of nice, though, |
| 1:12.1 | being in the late afternoon in Honolulu |
| 1:14.1 | and just having your phone be dead. |
| 1:16.7 | It was been fantastic. |
| 1:18.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:19.2 | Preet, what did we miss in the news? |
| 1:22.5 | Well, I think the big news that came out this week, |
| 1:25.6 | and it admittedly wasn't entirely unexpected, |
| 1:28.8 | was that Grand Slam Track filed for bankruptcy. Now, this was Chapter 11 bankruptcy. So that doesn't mean, |
| 1:38.1 | for those people that aren't familiar with US bankruptcy process, it doesn't mean that Grand Slam |
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