Ryan Ghelfi | Post Sponsorship Athlete Life, Trail Running Teams, UTMB, FKT Scene

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Finn Melanson

Wilderness, Sports, Trail Running, Ultramarathon, Ultra Running, Running, News, Sports News, Mountain Running, Ultrarunning

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🗓️ 28 November 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Ryan Ghelfi is the Founder of Trails and Tarmac, one of the more prominent coaching businesses in our sport. He has also run professionally for Nike and Hoka One One. And he’s a great thinker in our sport, which is the primary reason why I wanted to have him on the podcast. In this episode, we talk about: What the transition looks like after sponsored athlete life endsHis thoughts on team-based ultra runningThe benefits of bringing runners together to do workoutsHis thoughts on UTMB and the b...

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0:00.0	Welcome back or welcome to the single track podcast. I am your host, Finn Malanson.
0:06.5	On today's show, we have one of my favorite people in the entire sport of Mountain Ultra Trail Running,
0:12.4	somebody I owe a lot to when it comes to my own development in the sport as an athlete,
0:18.0	but also just in terms of my interest in the sport. I'm really glad I've
0:22.0	known Ryan for the last five years in various capacities. Yeah, on today's show, we have the man
0:28.3	himself, Ryan Guelphi. Ryan is the founder of Trails and Tarmac, which is one of the more
0:33.2	prominent coaching businesses in our sport. He has also run professionally for Nike and Hoka
0:38.9	ONA ONA in years past. He's also just a great thinker in our sport. And I think I alluded to that
0:43.4	earlier, but it's the primary reason why I've wanted to have him on for a while. We talk about
0:48.6	the Ashland, Oregon running scene where he's based, what the transition looks like after sponsored
0:53.9	athlete life ends,
0:55.7	his thoughts on team-based ultra-running, the benefits of bringing runners together in your community
1:01.5	to do workouts together to reach their full potential. We dig into his thoughts on UTMB in years
1:07.8	past and ultimately the boomerang effect it had on making him want to embed more
1:12.6	here in the American West.
1:14.6	We cover FKT culture and more.
1:16.7	Let's just get right into it.
1:18.2	The audio quality in this one isn't the best, but the content is supreme.
1:22.6	You're going to dig it.
1:24.1	Boom.
1:35.2	Thank you. Boom. All right.
1:36.0	It has been a long time coming.
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