Leah Yingling | Lululemon Partnership, Western States 100 Prep, FURTHER Initiative

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🗓️ 24 May 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Leah Yingling returns to the podcast to discuss her new partnership with Lululemon, the FURTHER initiative, as well as her training and expectations heading into the Western States 100. Timestamps: (0:51) - Lululemon partnership announcement and details(2:38) - backstory on how the opportunity came about (6:07) - Lululemon's "whole human" approach to athlete sponsorship(9:51) - rollout week in Vancouver(13:40) - research for women's ultrarunning(19:33) - FURTHER initiative, world record...

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0:00.0	Welcome back or welcome to the Single Track podcast.
0:04.0	I'm your host Finn Melanson and in this episode, Leah Yingling returns to the podcast this time to discuss the details of her new partnership with Lulu Lemon, her training and expectations heading into Western States, as well as some thoughts on UTMB later this summer.
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0:39.2	With that, let's get started.
0:41.4	All right, Leah Yingling.
0:42.7	Typically, we have you on the show to analyze the sport, but we get to share some really
0:47.1	cool news about your professional running career.
0:49.7	What can you say?
0:51.0	Yeah, so I'm joining you from up in Vancouver this week. Been up here since
0:56.7	Saturday. It's been a whirlwind. But yeah, I'm excited to announce a partnership as a global
1:02.2	ambassador with Lulu Lemon as part of a huge project that they're putting together called Further
1:08.4	that we'll see iterated on over this next year.
1:11.9	So but culminating in a huge six-day ultramarathon event on International Women's Day next year.
1:19.4	So this is the first time we're really seeing Lou Lemon come to the ultra world.
1:24.9	And we've got a great team of female athletes that they've compiled about 10 of us
1:30.1	from across the globe and the initiative is just huge it's combining uh science side of things it's combining
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