Long Run 75 - Runnerman Dan (Dan Owings)

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

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🗓️ 29 March 2019

⏱️ 156 minutes

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Scotty catches up with old friend Dan Owings (a/k/a/ Runnerman Dan) who is an old running friend that he has lost touch with. Dan is incredibly interesting guy, train conductor and inventor of interesting challenges. They discuss his life and running, the challenges he's faced, the destructive role of social media, the Chicago Ultrarunning scene and much much more.

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0:00.0	this is going to be a long run of runner man Dan. Now who is runner man Dan. His name is Dan Owings. He's 48. He lives in the, you know, suburbs of Chicago. And when I first started ultra running this dude was everywhere.
0:14.3	He was a really cool guy who I would see it races all the time and he was in a lot of
0:21.7	races with me, he has kind of an interesting personality, and he was just like this fixture in the ultra running world.
0:28.0	Brother Man Dan, you know, where were you win? Runner Man Dan.
0:30.0	He was in New Leave.
0:31.0	He was runner man Dan.
0:32.0	And then one day I just stopped seeing him around and you know he
0:39.0	and I were not close friends but we kept in touch over the years we've been to lunch together you know hey
0:45.3	what's going on with you and stuff like that but I have no idea what he's been up to no idea
0:50.3	where he's been and no idea what happened to him and so he sent me an email out of the blue he's like hey let's
0:55.0	catch up and I said let's do it on the microphone so I don't know what he's going to say I don't
0:59.8	know what the story is I don't know where he's been. I think it's going to be cool. Here's
1:04.3	runner man Dan and this episode is brought to you by Trail Toe. Trail Toe's
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1:28.9	around your feet and they'll take care of it. So here is Render Man Dan.
1:34.0	He's not even here.
1:43.0	He's not even here.
1:44.0	He's going to show up.
1:48.0	So I'm going to hit pause.
1:50.0	You're going to go get him, and then a boat.
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