Hey, fam, welcome to the free trial podcast. Of course, I'm your host Dylan Bowman. And today we welcome Tommy runs to the show,

a creator in the running industry who has a very interesting and inspiring personal story.

The theme of this podcast is one of personal transformation for many years. Tommy struggled

with alcohol addiction, getting sober over eight years ago and discovering running

around that time, launching him onto a new path of health and fitness and also seemingly

a new career path where he appears to be thriving. Most recently, after focusing on running

road marathons for several years, Tommy did the solo speed

project this spring, a 340 mile endurance run from Santa Monica, California to Las Vegas, Nevada.

Evidently, Tommy was listening to the free trail podcast while he was out there, leading to a great opportunity

to have him here on the show, to hear all about it from the man himself. I have to say,

I am now a huge fan of Tommy's so much so that as soon as we got off the podcast, I invited him

to come be a speaker at TrailCon. And I hope to stay in touch and collaborate with him a lot more in the future.

I think you'll all feel the same after hearing his story.

Some topics we discussed today, discovering alcohol and falling into addiction.

We talk about Tommy's rock bottom moment, getting sober and the ingredients of self-transformation. We talk about discovering

running and investing in his health. We talk about his experience running all six

world marathon majors in a single calendar year. We talk about the magic, the essence of the

speed project. Tommy's experience running those 340 miles in five days, the finishing

line there in Las Vegas. We talk about Tommy's fundraiser for release recovery, which

free trail donated to and which I linked to in the show notes in case you feel inspired to give

yourself and a lot more. Before we get to it, make sure you go

register for TrailCon. We're building a bridge, or at least hoping to, between Broken Arrow and

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