Rob Krar's Beard
Trail Runner Nation
Trail Runner Nation
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2014
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Ultrarunner of the year, Rob Krar, drops in to discuss
- How he got started
- How to juggle training and racing with a demanding job and family
- His training philosophy and how it has changed
- Plans for the future
- His beard, of course!
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| 0:00.0 | And this podcast brought to you in part by Petzl. |
| 0:12.0 | Our friends at Petzl, Scott, they make the best head torches in the world, hands down. |
| 0:18.0 | There's not even another manufacturer that's even close. |
| 0:20.7 | Look at the fast people. |
| 0:21.7 | They're all wearing Petzl. |
| 0:22.7 | Yep. |
| 0:23.7 | Scott, the days are getting shorter and there's no way to get your training volume in. |
| 0:26.7 | If you're training for a big race and not have some sort of light source, we were running |
| 0:32.5 | like you said the other day. |
| 0:34.3 | And coming in, it was just daybreak at the end of our run and we said, it seems like |
| 0:39.2 | the sun should be up by now. |
| 0:41.2 | And then we made the observation, perhaps it's because we were both wearing Petzls. |
| 0:45.2 | It was intimidated. |
| 0:46.5 | The sun was intimidated. |
| 0:47.5 | It felt maybe it was his day off, right, or her day off that everybody needs a rest. |
| 0:53.0 | And Petzl was going to take care of the light for the planet that day, but to the consistency |
| 0:59.7 | of the sun is amazing because it did finally rise. |
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| 1:08.4 | torch. |
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| 1:15.3 | and look around. |
| 1:16.9 | They're wearing Petzl and asking what they think. |
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