I am Finn Melanson, and you are listening to the single track podcast. We don't always do

emergency podcasts, but when we do, it's because something big has happened in the ultra-running

world. And in this episode, we talk with Nick Curry. Nick is less than 48 hours removed

from setting the American 24-hour running

record of 173 miles in change at the Desert Solstice event down in Arizona. Now, while the

intention of this episode going in was to do a deep dive on Nick's record performance there,

we actually only touch on it briefly.

Early on in this conversation, we started following a thread on Nick's unique philosophy

of setting himself up to negative split ultras.

And then that led to going down another rabbit hole into the backstory of Aera Vipa running and Nick's

contributions to that famous events organization in our sport. I mentioned it towards the end of the

episode, but honestly, I'm so glad the episode went the way it did. We went in with this intention

of creating sort of a spur of the moment

topical episode. I think this one's actually going to stay pretty evergreen. Nick delivers so

much value in this conversation when it comes to training philosophy. Likewise, if you've ever been

curious about the history of Air Viper running and all of his contributions there.

You know, he helped build it with his brother, Jamil.

We spend a lot of time talking about that too.

I hope you enjoy this one.

I'm already a huge fan of Nick.

This made me a bigger fan.

Let's get right to it.

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