Scott Dunlap: Adidas Runtastic, Strava “GOAT” Program, Future of Connected Athletes (Sunday Conversation)

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Finn Melanson

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🗓️ 7 October 2022

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Scott Dunlap is the VP of Mobile at Adidas and the GM of Runtastic, a subsidiary of Adidas where he is creating the future of the quote un quote connected athlete. In this conversation, we talk about: being an early voice in the ultrarunning media contributing to the blogging wave of the late 2000s and early 2010s a few of his popular articles including his idea for the Strava GOAT program and whether endurance sports are a luxury goodthe role that technology companies play in p...

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0:00.0	Welcome back or welcome to the Single Track podcast. I'm your host, Finn Melanson, and in this
0:06.1	episode we are talking with Scott Dunlap, the VP of Mobile at Adidas, and the general manager of
0:11.6	Runtastic, a subsidiary of Adidas, where he is creating the feature of the quote-unquote
0:16.8	connected athlete. I wanted to have Scott on the show for many reasons. We talk about being an early voice in the ultra-running media,
0:24.6	contributing to the blogging wave of the late 2000s and early 2010s.
0:28.6	We talk about a few of his popular articles during that time, including his idea for the Strava Goat program
0:34.6	and whether endurance sports are a luxury good. We get into a philosophical
0:39.9	discussion about the role that technology companies can play in promoting and facilitating
0:44.7	more outdoor activity in the future. We talk about the application of Web3 technologies to
0:51.7	the Trail and Ultra World and how athletes and creators stand
0:54.7	to benefit. And we conclude with some of Scott's thoughts on the state of our sport. Before we get
1:01.3	started, this episode is brought to you by gnarly nutrition and Kodiak cakes. Use code single
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1:17.4	With that, let's get started. Welcome Scott.
1:21.3	All right, Scott Dunlap. It is an absolute pleasure to have you on the single track podcast.
1:26.9	It's so fun to be here, Finn. I really enjoyed
1:29.7	the podcast episodes you put together and I was really flattered when you reached out. So yeah,
1:34.9	this is going to be great. The pleasure is all mine. There's so much I want to cover today.
1:40.3	You've had some really interesting takes on the intersection of trail running and philosophy and sort of like
1:46.1	the fate of our globe and our universe and you've talked about web three before and uh you are in a
1:53.0	fascinating position at adidas with runtastic but just in case there are listeners out there that
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