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Jimmy Daly | Social Media, Content Creation, Branding For Trail Runners

Singletrack

Finn Melanson

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

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Jimmy Daly joins the podcast to talk about how pro trail runners currently handle social media obligations, what can be improved, how they can measure their ROI to brands they work with, and how those brands can better support athlete content creation efforts. We riff on a constant theme in this show - how to grow the sport of Mountain Ultra Trail Running. And finally, we have a ton of fun going back and forth on some business ideas we'd like to see take shape in our sport. Support th...

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0:00.0

Hey, welcome back or welcome to the single track podcast. I apologize for the hiatus too.

0:09.6

Normally this show is on a weekly cadence, but I spent the last week of August in Chamonie, France,

0:15.6

soaking in the experience of what seemed like, honest to God, the entire world of trail running coming together

0:22.4

and racing events like CCC and UTMB and OCC and TDS.

0:28.8

It was magical.

0:30.4

And I'm back, but I always think I've somehow beaten jet lag and there's a lot of it on this trip, but it typically

0:39.2

rears its ugly head about two days post travel. And it has, I admit, taken some time to recover,

0:45.0

but I feel like I'm finally almost there, at least with enough energy to do this podcast thing.

0:52.3

So yeah, I think what sparked today's episode,

0:56.5

honestly, I was listening to Corinne Malcolm earlier today on the Pillars podcast while she was

1:00.5

doing a recap of her own UTMB experience. And I thought she described the impression

1:05.8

the week had on a lot of athletes perfectly, how it validated so much about why we love this sport, how it left

1:13.3

you wanted to take this whole thing more seriously to go even further in, to do more. Amen.

1:20.0

I'll just say that for now. I am fired up, as I've said before, to be a part of this community

1:25.3

and to continue contributing any which way I can.

1:29.5

I've said that before, Shamani, I'm saying it with even greater fire and intensity now.

1:35.8

So hold me to that. Anyway, back to the podcast.

1:41.6

Today's conversation is one that I have been anxious to have for months. Our guest is

1:46.5

Jimmy Daly. Now, you may not be familiar, but he is one of our own. Based in Ville, Colorado,

1:52.5

Jimmy is a two-time finisher of the Leadville 100. He is also the founder of Superpath, which is an online

1:58.9

community explicitly designed for content marketers

2:01.8

to get better at their craft, to network, to grow their careers. And his perspective is

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