Welcome back or welcome to the Single Track Podcast.

I'm your host, Finn Melanson, and this is another edition of the Long Run Archives,

although I must say up front we are format experimenting again.

No, I promise we are not doing the clip version that we did back in July and August of this year.

But this episode is two separate, great conversations built into one giant episode.

So first off, Tim Tullifson returns to the program.

Tim, as you likely know, was very recently a guest on the free trail podcast for an episode of Rest Day.

He and Dylan covered many interesting topics.

One that stuck out to me was their discussion on the state of

independent events and the incentives at play for pro runners who are in tandem building out

their annual race calendars. I felt like there was a lot to follow up on here. And I've always felt

like November, December, January, you know, where we're at right now in the calendar,

these are the months to really engage

deeper into the business of the sport and the most pressing, directional, you know, world-building

questions of the moment. So Tim and I chat on that for about 80 minutes. After that, I'm joined

by Alyssa Clark. Alyssa is a pro runner for On. She also works as a coach.

She works in many media capacities and in a support capacity to agents like Kelly

Newland in our sport.

So her perspective is quite diversified.

She joins the show to riff on a bunch of really fun trail-related business news and ideas.

As a sidebar, I am really looking forward to having Alyssa on the show for many future

episodes of the Long Run Archives.

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