Joey Campanelli | Nolan's 14 FKT Holder
The Freetrail Podcast with Dylan Bowman
Dylan Bowman
4.8 • 866 Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2020
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
On July 2nd 2020 Joey Campanelli set a new speed record for Colorado's legendary Nolan's 14 -- a burly route involving summiting fourteen different 14k' peaks in a single push. He managed to break the record by more than five hours, changing the paradigm of what's possible on the route. Even more impressively, he did the record completely unsupported. Hear the story of this insane performance from Joey in his own words.
Joey's IG: https://www.instagram.com/joey.camps/?hl=en
Joey's blog writeup: https://joeycamps.blogspot.com/2020/07/nolans-41.html
Joey's interview with iRF: https://www.irunfar.com/2020/07/joey-campanelli-post-nolans-14-unsupported-and-overall-fastest-known-time-interview.html
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, welcome back to the well. |
| 0:17.6 | I am, of course, your host, Dylan Bowman. |
| 0:20.1 | And today we're speaking to Joey Campanelli, |
| 0:23.3 | a.k.a. Flash. It was at the beginning of this month, July of 2020, that I was in Mammoth Lakes, |
| 0:32.4 | California, doing some running myself, some adventuring. And I noticed a tweet come across my timeline from |
| 0:39.2 | I Run Far, reporting that the Nolan's 14 record had just been decimated. And like a lot of people, |
| 0:48.5 | I'm sure, who received that notification, they wondered, who the heck is Joey Campanelli. I am now a new fan, a new follower of |
| 0:56.9 | joey's. It was great to be able to sit down with him and chat about his recent accomplishment |
| 1:02.9 | in the Sawwatch range of Colorado. Of course, we talk about this in the podcast, but for those who |
| 1:10.3 | are unaware, uninitiated, not as familiar with ultra running, the Nolan's 14 is a historic or, I guess, legendary route in the Sawwatch range of Western Colorado between Buena Vista and Leadville. |
| 1:28.3 | It's basically a logical chain of 14 different 14,000 foot peaks. |
| 1:36.3 | And the challenge is, of course, to do them all in one push, |
| 1:41.3 | as is our propensity as deranged mountain sport athletes and Joey was able to do this record |
| 1:51.4 | or do this route in an astonishing record time he did it unsupported but was able to break the |
| 1:59.8 | overall record uh in other words break the overall record. In other words, break the supported |
| 2:03.5 | record as well, which is held by Alex Nichols, one of the truly great ultra runners of our generation, |
| 2:09.1 | by more than five hours. He also, of course, broke the unsupported record by, I think about |
| 2:15.6 | eight hours, which is held by Joe Grant. So it was an |
| 2:20.3 | absolutely stupefying performance. And when I saw that tweet from I Run Far, I was eager to chat |
| 2:27.4 | with this gentleman from Alta, Utah. I won't bore you with any more details here. We go into all of it in the podcast, but if you do |
| 2:37.8 | enjoy, please give Joey a follow. You can find his social in the show notes. Let him know if you |
| 2:44.2 | enjoyed the podcast. If you do enjoy it, I'd also, of course, appreciate it. If you share it on your |
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