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The Freetrail Podcast with Dylan Bowman

Justin Grunewald | Dry January, Sponsorship Landscape, & Tarawera

The Freetrail Podcast with Dylan Bowman

Dylan Bowman

Running, Sports

4.8 • 866 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2024

⏱️ 82 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Justin Grunewald is a professional runner and physician, living in Boulder, CO. At the end of January, Justin posted about his experience giving up alcohol for a month and how it impacted his running and personal health. His post resonated with me and created a great opportunity to finally have Justin on the podcast. Topics covered:

  • Dry January
  • Justin's observation of alcoholism as a physician
  • How giving up alcohol impacted his training, relationships, and mood
  • The importance of moderation
  • The sponsorship landscape in trail running
  • Agents in pro trail running
  • Justin's training for Tarawera and goals for the season
  • A lot more!

Sponsors:

Freetrail Links: Website | Freetrail Pro | Patreon | Instagram | YouTube | Freetrail Experts

 

Dylan Links: Instagram | Twitter | LinkedIn | Strava

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, fam, welcome to the free trail podcast, of course. I'm your loving host, Dylan Bowman, here today with Justin

0:21.1

Groenwald, the pro trail runner and physician living in Boulder, Colorado. At the end of January,

0:27.2

Justin put up a post on Instagram that really resonated with me that gave us the perfect opportunity

0:32.7

to finally set up a podcast episode in the post I'm referencing.

0:42.8

Justin talks about his experience participating in dry January for the first time and how abstaining from alcohol consumption for a month impacted his personal health and his athletic

0:49.4

performance.

0:50.7

I've been doing dry January for almost a decade now and my own alcohol consumption is something that I have thought about for a while.

0:58.4

And in the last few years, I've increasingly wrestled with where it fits in my life.

1:03.4

So Justin's Post spoke to me and, you know, was synchronous with my internal dialogue.

1:10.7

So I felt like it was a valuable conversation to have here on the podcast.

1:15.1

Clearly judging from the comment section and engagement on Justin's post, there's a lot of other people who are experiencing similar feelings.

1:22.6

So hopefully talking about these sorts of things here on the podcast will have a broader positive

1:29.5

impact. In addition to dry January and alcohol consumption, we also talk a lot about the sponsorship

1:35.6

landscape in the sport, the relationship between pro athletes and agents, and, you know, a lot of other

1:41.9

things that were on Justin's mind that were fun to talk about.

1:45.2

We also, of course, look ahead to Justin's running of the Tara Ware 100K in New Zealand this coming weekend at the end of the podcast.

1:52.0

So a big good luck to Justin as he gets ready to open his season.

1:57.9

Before we get to the episode, a reminder that next week is the Big Alta Week,

2:02.2

February 24th and 25th, the inaugural running of our new race in my neighborhood here in Marinwood,

2:09.8

California. Cannot wait to greet all of our runners here next weekend. We'll be doing full live

2:15.5

streams of both races, the 50K on Saturday and the 28K on

2:20.4

Sunday in partnership with our friends over at Mountain Outpost. So make sure you tune in to the

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