Welcome back or welcome to the Single Track Podcast. I am your host Finn Melanson and in this episode

we meet with Sarah Kais. Sarah is an ultra runner, race director, and trail running community

organizer among many other roles based in Saranac Lake in New York. We talk about the trail

running and overall mountain sports seen in the Adirondack Mountains, her role as race director

of the White Face Mountain events, her role at ITRA, how to get more involved in the sport

beyond training and racing, and much more.

One thing to note, there is a bit of background noise in the episode at times, but stick with

it.

The conversation is great.

With that, let's get started.

Welcome Sarah. Sarah Kise,

welcome to the single track podcast. Yeah, thanks for having me. There's a lot that I want to talk

about in the conversation today because we met a couple of days ago and very similar to Mike

foot actually, who I recently had on the podcast,

you are involved in our sport in so many different ways, whether it's on the community engagement

front, athlete side of things, race directing side of things. We'll cover it all. But maybe the first

place we can start is just, I'd love to get a little bit of your background in the sport, like how you

got into Mountain Ultra Trail Run. Sure. Let's see. So I started my first Ultramarathon was the Wakely Dam

Ultra, which takes place here in the Adirondex. It's on the Northville Placid Trail. And that was in,

I want to say it was 2014, I think, was my first. There's no aid stations for that, right?

It's like a unique race.

Correct.

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