Supershoe Debates, Athlete Pipeline Wars, and ACG’s Trail Reception (Long Run Archives #38)
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Finn Melanson
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🗓️ 24 April 2026
⏱️ 86 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We are back. This is another edition of the Long Run Archives. I'm joined by friends, colleagues, Brett Hornig, Jeff Colt. |
| 0:08.4 | What's up? |
| 0:09.5 | Hello. Jeff, coming out hot. What's up with you? What's new? |
| 0:13.7 | Things are good, man. Mountain running season. Things are starting to dry out. I got my first taste of the easy access trail running that Salt Lake City has to offer |
| 0:23.0 | last week while I was there for work. Truly remarkable. What's the letter grade? A plus. I mean, |
| 0:30.4 | honestly, I was thinking about the best places I've ever been for mountain running and like, |
| 0:34.7 | Mallorca was up there from a trip I did earlier this year, and Salt Lake |
| 0:38.0 | is definitely up there. It's so crazy how much vert there is and like how easy the trailheads |
| 0:44.5 | are to access and stuff. Like, I was shook. And I went up Olympus and it's like super fun |
| 0:52.2 | technical trails toward the top of, you know, top of the climb up to the saddle there. |
| 0:57.4 | I had a great time. It was even like snowing and windy and terrible weather. And I was like, this is where I want to be. |
| 1:04.1 | It's like, it's like one of the truest definitions of door to trail. |
| 1:08.6 | And the Bonneville shoreline trail is just like, what a concept. |
| 1:13.2 | I'm like looking around. |
| 1:14.3 | I'm like, can we just build a trail all the way across all the mountains around here? |
| 1:17.7 | But private ranchers and stuff might have a differing opinion on that one. |
| 1:24.3 | Where Caleb Wilson lives in Suncrest, it's like the southeast corner. |
| 1:28.0 | What's his address? |
| 1:31.7 | We're going to keep that off the airwaves, but he lives in the southeast corner of the Salt Lake Valley, |
| 1:36.9 | and he has basically every single option and discipline for trail running outside his door. |
| 1:44.8 | He can do Black Canyon, Canyon style training, Western States. |
| 1:48.9 | His front door, like amazing Western States training, but then he can jog three miles and |
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