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Is This Wearable About To Revolutionize Ultrarunning? (Long Run Archives #23)

Singletrack

Finn Melanson

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

5897 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2025

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Text us your thoughts about this episode or ideas for future episodes! Finn Melanson and Brett Hornig convene for another edition of the Long Run Archives. They talk about business ideas for trail running, the rise of breathing sensors in training and racing contexts, Grand Slam Track, the continued golden ticket chase at Tarawera, the final year of Pine to Palm, and the Barkley Marathons. Timestamps: (0:00) - business ideas for trail running(17:43) - breathing sensors(35:28) - Grand Slam T...

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0:00.0

We are back with what I believe is the 23rd edition of the Long Run Archives here,

0:05.9

joined as always by co-host, friend, colleague, Brett Hornig.

0:11.9

Brett, you were just telling me that you're getting dollar poppies at your local grocery store,

0:16.7

which we did not have on our list today, but I mean, we should address this because I think it's a fantastic deal.

0:22.5

And if anyone else out there that slams these on a day-to-day basis, if you're watching

0:26.2

on YouTube, 99 cents.

0:28.0

99 cents for a 16-ounce poppy.

0:30.1

We're talking poppy pint cans.

0:32.5

Yeah, my local grocery store, the shopping cart, shouts to the shopping cart. Anyone who's listening who's been there

0:37.9

will be like, yeah, that's the best grocery store on earth. They always have like one item or two

0:44.2

in the grocery store where they just completely blow them out. And I feel like they do it just to get

0:49.4

people in the doors knowing that they're going to find something fun and then they just go and do all

0:54.9

the regular grocery stopping so like the last few weeks there's been 99 cent poppies there so every

0:59.8

time I go I just like throw a few in my cart and they still had a couple palettes of them so I wasn't

1:05.0

worried about hoarding them I feel like it's only a matter of time before they come down to 75 cents so

1:09.0

yeah it's a great find amazing amazing yeah well anyways

1:13.9

we got an awesome show lined up and where I think we should start I we actually added this or I added

1:21.5

this last minute last and I texted you because our mutual friend Zach Howard recently started a nutrition brand in the trail space.

1:29.5

It's called Open Fuel.

1:31.3

And a bunch of us, Zach, included we're having a discussion around just like all the nuances of starting a business in our sport.

1:39.3

And I think you actually texted me the question.

1:41.5

Like, in the case of Open open fuel from a marketing standpoint would

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