Welcome back or welcome to the single track podcast. I'm your host Finn Melanson, and in this episode,

we are talking with Jason Schlarb, a professional runner for Norton and Ultimate Direction based in Durango,

Colorado. If there were an all-decade's team in American Ultronning, Jason would probably be

one of the starters on the 2010's version with wins in that decade at races like hard rock

and run rabbit run a top five performance at UTMB among many other notable finishes but you know deep

into his 40s i think jason is 46 now he's still registering top notch performances earlier this year

for example he was the top american at tDS in Hard Rock, finishing ninth and third

respectively at those races. In this conversation, we are all over the place, but in the most

organic way. The best way to describe it, if you listen to our episodes with Michael Versteig or

Anton Kruppichka or even Scott Jurek earlier this year, this one kind of flows in a similar laidback, but still very valuable manner.

I'm going to waste no more time.

Let's get into it.

Jason, thank you so much for your time.

Jason Schlarb, it's been way too long.

I'm stoked to finally have you on the single track podcast.

How are you doing today?

I'm doing fantastic. Enjoying the super warm

October weather and post run bliss outside. So I'm good, man. It's great to talk to you. I know

we've been working to get together and it's great to do it finally. I was going to say too,

and this is probably only for people that watch the show on

YouTube, but you are definitely in the top five for most memorable or coolest ambiance settings

for this recording. So where does this podcast find you? Oh, man, there's actually a buck walking by the other direction here. It is pretty,

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