LA Marathon Experience / Gear Recap + Future of Conversational Pace Chatter

Singletrack

Finn Melanson

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

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🗓️ 10 March 2026

⏱️ 67 minutes

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This is a crossover episode from Conversational Pace. Brett Hornig interviews me about my LA Marathon experience + we speculate a bit in the second half about the future of CP. Partners: Precision Fuel and Hydration - use code SINGLETRACK at checkout for 15% off your next orderNorda - check out the 005: the lightest, fastest, most stable trail racing shoe ever madeRaide - Making equipment for efficient human-powered movement in the mountains Janji - premium trail running apparelKod...

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0:00.0	Welcome back or welcome to the Single Track Podcast.
0:03.0	I'm your host, Finn Melanson, and this is a special crossover episode of the show.
0:08.0	The other day I joined friend of the podcast, Brett Horning, on his program conversational pace for a rundown of my LA marathon experience, and we're putting it in the feed here too.
0:19.0	Do me a favor. If you're not already subbed to his channel on YouTube, go do that right now.
0:23.6	He is doing the Lord's work on the gear review front and hosting interviews with top athletes on related topics.
0:29.9	Anyways, I am well aware that my marathon times are amateur at best, but this is a fun conversation.
0:37.3	Maybe you take a few things from it for
0:39.1	your own training. We also do some fun live brainstorming for future CP content. So, yeah,
0:46.3	without further ado, here's the conversation with Brett Hornick. Before we get started,
0:51.5	Kodiak Cakes is back. Funny enough, I was reflecting on this recently. I believe they are one of the OG partners of the show dating back to 22, about four years ago. We've worked on and off together over the years. Well, we're working together again this time for the next 12 months. I am really stoked about it. They're going to be the official breakfast partner of Single Track. What more to say? I use this stuff on a
1:11.7	daily basis specifically really enjoying their peak oatmeal packets. All great flavors. Personally,
1:17.4	though, my go-to is banana nut. Each one has 20 grams of protein per serving, which I keep in my car
1:24.2	post-run. It's like my post post run immediate fuel. All legit ingredients,
1:29.8	whole grains, no GMOs, go check them out. Codiacakes.com.
1:35.1	2.3929.
1:39.8	Finn, congratulations on a big LA Marathon PR.
1:50.3	I'm not, yeah, I'm not going to do the whole, like, wait till the end of the episode to see what Finn ran.
1:52.6	I mean, you could just go look it up and see on Estrava.
1:58.8	So we're just going to dive right into it because you've been training for this marathon for a while.
2:04.0	And at the time, it's Monday, March 9th, you ran yesterday.
2:09.2	So this is like, this is well still in the mind.
2:12.4	How are you doing?
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