Welcome back or welcome to the Single Track podcast.

I'm your host of Finn Melanson and in this episode we talk with Ryan Atkins,

a professional multi-endurance sport world champion based in Sutton, Quebec.

Perhaps best known for his success in obstacle course racing,

Ryan has also demonstrated incredible range with success on the mountain biking circuit

and in our world of ultra trail running on the FKT scene,

just to name a few other disciplines as well.

This conversation is broken up into four categories.

First, we go deep into what it's like being a full-time endurance athlete,

then we transition into a conversation about the optical course racing scene.

We go into his philosophy on multi-sport training.

We also talk about his experience and thoughts on the FKT scene in our sport before closing out

with some miscellaneous questions.

With that, let's get started.

Brian Atkins, welcome to the single track podcast.

Yeah, thanks for having me.

Excited to be here.

So you only recently came on my radar, even though you've been in the ultra-endurance game

in many different circumstances for years.

This is primarily a mountain ultra-trail-running audience, so could you give us just a little bit

of background on how you got into this scene and like how you've progressed over the years and

like where your interests have taken you yeah totally actually um i guess it would date back to

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