Welcome back or welcome to the single track podcast. I'm your host, Finn Melanson, and in this episode, we are talking with Josh Eberley, a professional trail runner for Adidas Terricks and the head coach of the trail running team at Western Colorado University, which is the focus of our conversation. We get into the details of how the team has been built, how it's structured, how they train,

how and where they compete in the Trail in Ultra World.

For example, they just had six of their athletes competing over in Austria at the Tarex Infinite Trails Race,

what it's going to take to expand this model to other colleges and universities across the country,

and much, much more.

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single track for 20% off their products. With that, let's get started. Josh, Iberle, it is an

absolute pleasure to have you on the single track podcast. Thank you for having me. Good opportunity to share some stories and

advice, maybe. I don't want to bury the lead, which is the fact that you coach a college

trail running team, and we're going to get into all the details about that, but I do think it's

important to provide some backdrop for how you

got into this position, your influences, your philosophies. And I was listening to a podcast you did

a couple years back, and you mentioned being on the Hansen's Brooks running team. And for any folks

that aren't familiar, because this is a primarily trail running audience can you talk

about what that team is and what they do and then how that experience influenced what you're doing now

at western yeah funny that you mentioned that because i uh i just i just listened to your interview

with desi and uh it was. I was just trying to remember.

I remember I was on the team when she first came and joined the Hansons.

And I was just remembering a little Desi coming from Arizona, you know, getting her feet wet.

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