Rod Farvard | Western States 100 Runner Up
The Freetrail Podcast with Dylan Bowman
Dylan Bowman
5 • 773 Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2024
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
Rod Farvard is a professional trail runner from Mammoth Lakes, CA. This season, Rod has had two world-class, breakout performances - a Golden Ticket win at the Canyons 100k, and a 2nd place finish at Western States, running the 2nd fastest time in history. This is his first long form appearance on the podcast.
Topics discussed:
- The value of taking chances
- Rod’s analytical approach to training
- The 2023 UTMB and the learnings from the race
- Rod’s coach and their long-term multi-sport relationship
- An nutritional epiphany after Black Canyon
- Super shoes on the trails
- Rod’s win at Canyons 100k
- Deep dive on the WS performance
- Recent examples of Rod betting on himself
- Where he’s racing next
- A lot more!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey fam. Welcome to the free trail podcast. Of course, I am your host Dylan Bowman back after a month on the road |
| 0:21.7 | for just a couple days before leaving again for Speedgoat this weekend. We are in the thick of |
| 0:27.3 | racing season and it has been so fun to be consumed in a whirlwind of positive trail running |
| 0:33.5 | energy. And one of the people whom I have been most inspired by this spring and summer |
| 0:39.2 | is our guest today. Mr. Rod Farvard has put together two of the top performances of the |
| 0:45.8 | season. Unquestionably, a massive golden ticket win at the Canaan's 100K and April in a face |
| 0:52.2 | melting second place at Western States running the second |
| 0:55.3 | fastest time in the storied 51 year history of the race. This is the first time Rod has been on |
| 1:02.4 | the pod to go long form and it turned out to be an amazing conversation packed with insights |
| 1:08.4 | from this young superstar. Some topics we discussed, the value of taking chances. |
| 1:14.8 | We talk about Rod's analytical approach to training. We talk about the 2023 UTMB and the |
| 1:20.4 | learnings from that race. We talk about Rod's coach and their long-term multi-sport relationship. |
| 1:26.7 | We talk about a nutritional epiphany that he had after Black Canyon. |
| 1:31.3 | We talk about super shoes in the trail running context. |
| 1:34.3 | We talk about Rod's win at the Canyon's 100K. |
| 1:37.3 | Of course, we do a deep dive on the Western States 100 performance. |
| 1:41.3 | We talk about some recent examples of rod betting on himself, where he's |
| 1:46.3 | racing next, and a lot more. I hope you all enjoy the conversation. As always, major thanks to our |
| 1:52.2 | presenting sponsor, The Feed, and also our supporting sponsor, Speedland, Narlay Nutrition, |
| 1:58.1 | Osprey and Ketone IQ. Make sure you check out the show notes for links and discount codes to use on these brands |
| 2:04.0 | and they're great products. |
| 2:06.2 | Also, if you enjoy FreeTrail, would like to support us directly, please visit Freetrail.com |
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