4.8 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2017
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Tim Tollefson based out of Mammoth Lakes, CA stumbled into the mountain ultra trail scene in 2014 after a couple of frustrating years on the road marathon circuit and hasn't looked back since. His ever growing resume includes many top ultra finishes including being the top American at the past two UTMB's.
During our discussion we talk:
> story of Nike Trail Team
> the business side of being a professional mountain athlete
> losing his friend Gabe Proctor to depression
> ...and much much more
Mont Blanc: https://youtu.be/wUpRzyUrrlw
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0:00.0 | You know you should make the most of it and live it the way you want do what makes you happy and |
0:07.2 | Knowing that it is this one shot makes that life all the more worth living for and there's a Strombella song that I really like the line is I don't want a never ending life but I want to be alive while I'm here and it's kind kind of like, yeah, I think that's very true. |
0:23.6 | Like you should aim to just live a bright life |
0:26.6 | and impact those around you while you have the opportunity. Greetings all you lovely people and welcome back to yet another |
0:47.0 | episode of the Billyang Podcast. I am your ever so grateful hostang, and this is basically a space where I plan to interview |
0:55.7 | one-on-one in-person, athletes, creatives, and entrepreneurs who are doing great things in the time |
1:01.0 | that they are above Terra Firma. |
1:03.6 | For my second such guest, I am excited to bring on Tim Tolipsin. |
1:09.1 | And what can I say about Tim Tolipsin? |
1:11.3 | Well, the first thing that comes to mind is his pure zeal and joy for running. |
1:16.7 | He's been running since about high school from everything cross country and the steeple chase and now of course in the mountains |
1:25.6 | where he regularly puts in big miles in Fert. He has a very impressive resume including |
1:30.4 | two U.S. Olympic trial qualifiers, a win at the Ultra Trail Australia 100K, |
1:35.0 | finished on the podium in third place as the top American in the past two Ultra Trail |
1:39.0 | Dumont Blanks, arguably the biggest and most competitive 100 mile race in the sport, but really probably best known for having the best head of hair this side of the Mississippi. |
1:49.0 | He currently calls Mammoth Lakes home where he is married to the charmingly Mercurial |
1:53.9 | Lindsay Tolson, works as a PT, a physical therapist, as a day job, and is a Hoka |
2:00.2 | one one, excuse me, h-One-A athlete whenever he sheds its cities for a jaunt in the mountains. |
2:08.4 | Okay, without further ado, here is my chat with my good buddy, Mountain athlete, Tim Tollefson. I'm curious if you can guess you know how on Google there's like the |
2:29.5 | predictive search for instance it'll say say Tim Tollison Blank, Tim Tollison Blank. So the obvious are like your |
2:38.0 | social media handles, right? It'll fill in with Tim Tollopson Strava, Tim Tollops in Twitter, Tim Tollips in Instagram. in nothing. I don't know. |
2:53.0 | Okay. I mean, they're not necessarily sexy answers, but... |
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