What's up, fellas? Welcome back to Combos Over Cool Brew with me, your host, Emma Abrahamson.

Today, I'm so excited. We are bringing Grayson Murphy back on the podcast. It's been about, I think, like, over two years since she's been on.

She's been absolutely crushing it in the mountain running and the trail running scene and the roads as well.

Earlier this year, she already qualified to the Olympic trials marathon, so this episode was super fun.

When we talk a lot about, you know, her training, the mountain running in general, how it's different than, like, the elite track world scene.

We talk a little bit about social media and much more, so stay tuned.

All right, Grayson Murphy back on the podcast. I had a look at when the last time you were on was and it was literally April of 2021.

So it's been a lot of time. Yeah, that's a, I didn't realize it'd been that long. I know, me neither. I feel like it's just time has been flying by, so I'm not scary, but you've been crushing it.

I mean, I feel like every time I go on Instagram, it's like, you have a new US title and you're like mountain. So yeah, I can't complain racing up mountains.

Yeah, before we get into all that, do you want to just give us a little bit of a rundown of who you are? What you're about?

Yes, I am Grayson Murphy. I run on lots of different surfaces and I'm at two time world champion mountain.

Lots of different surfaces. That's a good way to put it. Yeah, like, because I know the last time that we talked, it's like you were doing, you were doing it all.

You were doing track, row racing and trail racing and mountain racing. Yeah, I don't even know how you can balance any sort of training with that, but you obviously do a good job.

Are you still doing all of those or have you narrowed it down at all?

I'm pretty much still. I've kind of cut out, well, this year was weird because worlds for mountain running was in June. Normally, it's like November.

So this year, I had to cut out track because just the way the schedules worked, I couldn't do track and mountain running simultaneously.

So this year's been mostly well all road and trail, no track. Why was it in June? I remember because I went world mountain running championships.

I've like, I've never heard times in my... I have pictures of you now that they gave me.

I actually have said that I've been to the world mountain running championships, like too many times for how like, mediocre I did there.

And like, how brief my stint was as a mountain runner.

I remember it was, it was always in like September.

Yeah, yeah, it's usually later. I think because they combined, well, so they used to, they try and piggyback it on like existing races already.

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