Long Run Archives #3 | Betting In Ultrarunning, Next Great Trail Running Towns, Golden Ticket Series Ideas

Singletrack

Finn Melanson

Wilderness, Trail Running, Sports, Sports News, Mountain Running, Running, Ultrarunning, Ultra Running, News, Ultramarathon

5 • 897 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2022

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Text us your thoughts about this episode or ideas for future episodes!Timestamps:(1:45) - greatest seasons ever in ultrarunning (Ann Trason, 1998)(5:13) - grand slam, what used to be competitively important in ultrarunning(9:19) - states with the least and most golden ticket winners(15:48) - easier to make money in ultrarunning during the Montrail Cup years?(24:35) - how and where the golden ticket series should be expanded(28:36) - improvements in ultrarunning media coverage(38:55) - hot tak...

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0:00.0	Welcome back or welcome to the Single Track podcast.
0:04.2	I'm your host Finn Melanson and this is another episode of the Long Run Archives.
0:08.9	With my co-host Brett Hornick, we discuss whether betting in ultra-running is a good idea for the sport,
0:14.5	where the next great trail running towns will be in the 2020s,
0:18.2	interesting data and ideas for the Western States Golden Ticket Series, and much more.
0:22.6	Let's dig in.
0:23.6	We just missed the opening of the can before I hit the record button, such a bummer.
0:30.6	Such like a classic sound.
0:32.6	Maybe that can be the intro sound.
0:36.6	We'll have to get all of our favorite beverages that are canned and open them all up in front of a microphone, see which one makes the best noise.
0:45.6	There's this concept called sonic branding in marketing where people get used to hearing a certain sound associated with a product that they're being marketed to,
0:54.7	advertisements, all that kind of stuff.
0:56.7	Whenever I hear the kch of a can, I just associate that with like refreshing and freshness.
1:03.8	So maybe we're bringing some fresh content here today.
1:06.6	Maybe that's a good thing.
1:07.2	Yeah, might set the right tone.
1:09.8	Let me just preview what we have to talk about here today.
1:13.4	This is the third long run archive with my partner in crime, Brett Hornig.
1:18.0	We're going to be talking again about some of the greatest seasons ever in ultra running.
1:22.5	Some interesting golden ticket and old Montreal Cup data that'll be interesting to you.
1:28.1	We're going to talk about what else could be a golden ticket race, and this is inspired by the
1:32.5	recent revival of the Gorge Waterfalls 100K.
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