I am Finn Melanson and you are listening to the single track podcast.

In this episode, we talk with Sam Parsons.

Sam is one of the co-founders of Tin Man Elite, a pro running team based in Boulder, Colorado.

As regular listeners of the show know, we often facilitate a discussion on this podcast

about the potential for pro trail running teams in the sport.

And that is why I was so excited to have Samlon. We spend the

vast majority of this episode going through the playbook for how to build that team in the world of

Mountain Ultra Trail Running. For Salt Lake Area listeners, you know we have tried this before.

And for fans of the sport, you know we've had forms of this before, like with the Coconino Cowboys, but really, in my opinion, only for a fleeting moment.

I will say this conversation left me quite fired up to try again.

I know if you've studied entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship in general, you know that it often takes two, three, four,

five at bats to getting a winning idea off the ground.

So for anyone that wants to try this again, count me in.

Let's get into this conversation with Sam, though.

If his experience with Tin Man Elite and his messages don't get you fired up, I'd be shocked.

Sam Parsons, welcome't get you fired up. I'd be shocked. Sam Parsons,

welcome to the single track podcast. Thanks for having me. So I got to put a disclaimer out there.

This is primarily a mountain ultra trail running audience. So I think it's fair to spend roughly five to 10 minutes just glossing over the beginnings of 10 man elite and how it got started, the purpose,

where it's at now, stuff like that. So take it from there. Yeah. Yeah, we're a professional

running team in Boulder, Colorado, born out of just like an idea that just running fast

wasn't quite enough for us and that we all were a bunch of just kids with like really big

dreams. And we just happened to have this, I'd say, perfect storm of like read being read a marathon

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