Welcome back or welcome to the single track podcast. I'm your host Finn Melanson and in this episode we are talking with John Renary, a professional runner based in Flagstaff, Arizona. John is coming off a 212 marathon performance at the California International Marathon this past December and will be lining up for his debut ultra at the Black Canyon 100K next week.

This episode is the first in our pre-race interview series for the Black Canyon 100K.

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And with that, let's get started. John Ranari, welcome to the single track podcast.

Appreciate it. Thanks for having me on.

I saw one of your recent Instagram posts, which started with the quote,

I find new beginnings are exciting. And it's relating to your entrance into the ultra trail running scene.

And maybe talk about that for it.

Because when I think of somebody of your caliber,

there can be many

reasons for making the switch or at least dabbling it could be because of you know um you've hit

a ceiling at a certain event or you're just curious so I'm curious what's your standpoint in all this

yeah um honestly my mantra for every new season is it's a new beginning it's it's a new opportunity um

whether or not i just ran a marathon or race to marathon or race to half or you know like race a series

of five k's uh for me it's it's always a new beginning it's always a new opportunity to get better

and progress and to

accept new challenges and and you know hopefully to to succeed in the process. For me specifically

though, I mean the ultra was was kind of a no-brainer. I mean I'm exceptionally exceptionally good at going to dark places, and I can go to some

very, very dark places. You know, so for me, it's, it's, I mean, like for me, this is the perfect

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