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Singletrack

Tara Dower on Life After the AT, Black Canyon, and Western States

Singletrack

Finn Melanson

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

5897 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Text us your thoughts about this episode or ideas for future episodes! Tara Dower returns to the show to talk about life after setting the fastest known time on the Appalachian Trail, re-signing with Altra, building a high-performance team to support her ultrarunning goals, the Black Canyon 100K experience, and her outlook on this year’s Western States 100. Timestamps 01:12 Setting Ambitious Goals04:05 The Grind of The Black Canyon 100K07:12 Bouncing Back from the AT10:25 Building a High-Pe...

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0:00.0

Hey folks, welcome back to the single track podcast. Host Finn Melanson here. We have an excellent

0:05.3

conversation with Tara Dauer on deck. But before we get started, I wanted to take a moment to

0:11.5

more formally introduce the newest partner to sort of the single track media ecosystem.

0:18.0

And that is Norda. They are going to be our footwear category partner for

0:21.7

at least the next three years. I'm a really big fan of their founding team, Willa and Nick,

0:27.2

their vision for the brand, the level of craft that they bring to their products, and their

0:31.9

general love of the sport. That really shines through in basically every conversation that I've

0:36.8

ever had with them.

0:42.2

I'm going to be rocking their latest model, the 005 at TransGran Canary later this month.

0:44.8

I've put over 200 miles on this particular shoe.

0:45.8

It's fantastic.

0:46.5

It's durable.

0:53.0

Yeah, head over to their website, norda run.com to check out what they have going on and stay tuned because we will have more to

0:56.7

roll out, especially on social media. It may be through the podcast as well in the coming

1:01.7

weeks and months around this partnership. But I'm really excited and looking forward to doing

1:07.5

great things together in the months and years to come. With that, let's get to

1:11.5

this conversation with Tara. Tara Dauer, great to have you back on the single track podcast.

1:16.7

And yeah, there's a lot to celebrate. But first and foremost, how are you doing today?

1:21.0

I'm doing well. Thanks for having me back. I'm always happy to chat with you.

1:26.0

I guess the first question I have, and I think we should talk about Black Canyon first,

1:30.8

is just around goal setting.

1:33.1

And I know there's a lot of hard work that is behind the scenes of all of these accolades,

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