Long Run 45 - Joe Prusaitis

Ten Junk Miles

Hiking, Ultramarathon, Ultrarunning, Mountaineering, Crosscountry, Running, Marathon, Sports, Track, Improv, Comedy, Trailrunning

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🗓️ 30 December 2017

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Join Scotty and coach, former RD and ultra legend Joe Prusaitis for a one on one discussion of his life and running, changes to the spot over the years. And much much more. It’s a rare glimpse into a in depth talk between two good friends on the road.

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0:00.0	10.
0:05.4	10.5.
0:06.4	10. Ten miles
0:23.6	Ten miles
0:26.6	I don't know
0:27.6	miles
0:29.6	I don't think Larry liked a 100 mile there, but then one year he ran the 100, basically, so he could get his 1,000 or 500-mile jacket and get the fuck done with it.
0:52.3	Nice.
0:53.3	So how did you first get into Ultrua? I was a roadrunner. Ran, run a lot of road races in
1:05.2	Austin, Texas. And my wife and I both were doing that.
1:13.6	We were running just about everything.
1:15.6	And then I saw a flyer one time, a back page cover for an ad for a race called Sun Mart 50 Mile
1:25.6	that I didn't know what it was, didn't know anything about it.
1:30.7	But it was like a back flyer and I read it just out of curiosity and it talked about a
1:36.7	race off road in a park which to me sounded awesome.
1:44.5	I mean, I liked camping and hiking.
1:47.4	So I saw this flyer for a race, which I'd never heard of, off-road.
1:53.0	So I just point-blank signed up for the 50-mile race.
1:58.8	Did you have any background running, like high school, college, anything like that?
2:02.1	Nah, I grew up a baseball player.
2:04.9	My running was between bases.
2:08.5	So you see this flyer and then you go and you do your first trail race and is that like set the hook and put you into the culture?
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