Okay, this is Billy Simpson right here. All right? You ready for this? Let's do it. I'm Hey Billy, how are you?

How are you?

I'm good.

How are you?

I'm going to do like a short one minute intro just to what we're talking about and then we

will write into it there's really no warm-up or anything all right?

Sounds good to me. Okay, hey everybody this is the second long run of the 10 Chuck Miles long run interviews and as I said in the last one if you're looking for the normal 10 minute funny segments and you're not interested in a long form interview, just go ahead and delete this episode and move on to the next one.

But I think that would be a big mistake.

As I said, the long runs are very, very narcissistic interviews done by me of people that I'm

interested in and what I did is I pick some people in ultra running that I would like to go for a long

run with and talk to and today what I'm talking to is Billy Simpson who is a 10 time hard rock finisher

a long time trail runner, a veteran and elder of the sport, and a

fascinating guy that I've just always wanted to meet and always wanted to run with.

So welcome to the show, Billy.

Well, thank you, Scott.

It's good to talk to you, get to know you better.

It's great seeing you at three days of Silimo.

Yeah, we just got done doing the three days of Silimo together and we really wanted to talk

to each other there, but I think this is probably even better because I got to sit down with Jim Sweat and talk for 10 minutes and it was kind of distracting being there around all the people.

Yeah, I hear you. Now are you back home in Tennessee or?

I am back home in Memphis. Yeah, yeah, just back home for a

while. I spend, you know, the winters here and then try to travel a lot in summers but I get out of

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