On today's Run to the Top Podcast.

What I mostly noticed was that your mind sort of turns everything you see into something else.

So you see a rock and it looks like a house or a car or a tent.

You see a stick on the ground and it looks like it's moving like a snake.

Welcome to the Run to the Top podcast from Runners Connect,

where it's all about learning from the best and most inspiring minds in the sport.

Together, we can train a smarter, healthier, and faster running community.

Now here's your host, Stephanie Kay Atwood.

Welcome. This is Stephanie K Atwood, Boston Marathon Qualifier, coach, and host for the Wren to the

top podcast. On today's podcast coach and host host for the Wren to the Top Podcast.

On today's podcast, our guest and a personal friend of mine

is Alan Corano, an avid trail runner who starts where most of us stop. Alan Wren, his first race. a

trail runner who starts where most of us stop. Alan ran his first race ever a 50K in 2010.

Since then he has run a few more 50Ks as well as the North Face 50-miler in Marin, the Miwok 100 k, and the Wasat's

front 100 mile and Tahoe Rim 100 mile trail races.

And Alan is one of a handful of people who have attempted to run the

entire John Muir Trail, a 211 mile section of the Pacific Crest Trail, unsupported

and non-stop. A movie was made in 2016 of The Crazies who have actually

attempted this feat. Before we get to listen to more of Alan's story, let's pause for a brief word from one of our sponsors.

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