Hello everyone and welcome to The Well. I'm your host, Dylan Bowman. This is going to be a podcast

about outdoor and non-traditional sport among many other things. And for those listening, I'm assuming

most of you either know me or found this podcast through some kind of connection to ultra running.

And while I imagine the show will be

disproportionately running, or at least endurance related, it won't be exclusively so. And the reason

is I've just been a lifelong fan of sport and I've always been incredibly interested in the

stories of athletes and industry people across all competitive disciplines.

So as such, I'll be sitting down with interesting people with compelling stories from outside the world of endurance,

as well as people with parallel experiences in other walks of life.

So, for example, I have conversations recorded with two of my extremely interesting and well-accomplished friends,

one who's a master Smolier, who went from a tough childhood in Washington, D.C. to become one of

the youngest master Psalms in history, and who is now president and CEO of one of the most

respected wineries in Napa Valley. I also talked with a childhood friend of mine who became a really successful

business person when we were still in high school and who now runs a very well-performing venture

capital firm in Boulder, Colorado. And while neither of these guys have ever been professional

athletes, obviously both know what it means to go to the well in service to their goals. And

both have dealt with success and failure.

And I just see a lot of parallel between what we do as athletes and what these guys do

professionally as well.

But that being said, of course, I'm an ultra runner and I think ultra running is the

greatest sport in the world.

And I intend to use this podcast to shout that from the rooftops of the internet with

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