Long Run 203 - Sherpa John LaCroix

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🗓️ 15 September 2023

⏱️ 170 minutes

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Join Scotty and Sherpa John LaCroix for a long run in which they discuss his life in running, changes in the sport, race directing, his podcast, life, and much much more!

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0:00.0	Right, you guys, this is going to be a long-wind episode of me and Sherpa, John, LaCroix.
0:09.0	You may know him, you may know of him, you may have heard things about him.
0:12.6	A lot of people have a lot of strong opinions.
0:15.2	From time to time, I've had him, but he's a race director who's been around the sport
0:20.3	for a really long time.
0:21.3	There's a really a lot of opinions and a lot of things that he's doing with his race
0:27.2	company that are different and set it apart.
0:30.2	So we explore a whole bunch of topics.
0:32.8	He did a state of his company-type podcast that really struck a few chords with me and
0:38.3	I thought, you know what, I think he and I would have a lot of interesting things to talk
0:42.0	about.
0:43.0	So we did, it's definitely some hot takes.
0:48.5	So if you're looking for a run where you're going to disagree with people strongly or
0:53.0	agree with people strongly, this might be the one to do.
0:57.0	I'll say this, I know a lot of people that have done a lot of his races and they all enjoyed
1:01.9	them and although from time to time he gets in some heated arguments or has some strong
1:08.0	differences of opinions with people, I feel like his intention is to benefit the sport
1:14.3	as he sees it.
1:15.3	So I think that at the end of the day it's a very good intention and we'll see what you
1:21.3	like.
1:22.3	If you don't like it, let me know.
1:25.1	If you love it, let me know that too.
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