Jeff Garmire, ultrarunner and Colorado Trail record holder

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Payson McElveen

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4.9 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Jeff Garmire is an ultrarunner and thru-hiker who holds the unsupported running FKT for the Colorado Trail, which he completed in nine days earlier this year. He specializes in unsupported efforts, carrying all the food and supplies he needs from beginning to end, including any trash he generates along the way. He has also held the FKTs on the Arizona Trail, the Long Trail, and the Pinhoti Trail. In this interview, he talks to Payson about his unusual trajectory to ultrarunning, having starte...

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0:00.0	That day, I had avalanche debris to crawl through.
0:04.0	I had a couple 4,000 foot climbs.
0:07.0	I was dry heaving.
0:09.0	My body couldn't process anything.
0:12.0	This is a day two of a nine-day effort.
0:15.0	It just made me think, like, what have I gotten myself into?
0:18.0	I don't know how I can do this for a full another week.
0:22.6	It's showtime, everybody.
0:24.8	Showtime!
0:27.5	You've been living in the dream world, Neil.
0:31.2	This is the world as it exists today.
0:36.1	Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while.
0:40.3	You could miss it.
0:42.3	Listen, we're talking about practice.
0:46.3	Repeat on the dude's room.
0:48.3	Donnie, you're out of your element.
0:50.3	I see, you think this has nothing to do with you.
0:57.6	Don't ever trash talk black Jesus.
1:02.6	This is the Adventure Stash with Payson McAlvin.
1:05.8	Howdy, welcome back. We have the Colorado Trail record holder for running unsupported this week, Jeff Garmeyer.
1:14.8	Anything Colorado Trail these days usually gets me interested. I was also really curious about
1:20.6	the whole dynamic of unsupported versus self-supported versus supported because in the running
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