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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

5897 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2022

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

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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