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Ultra Trail Running Culture - Bob Crowley - Part 1

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Trail Runner Nation

Fitness, Sports, Running, Health & Fitness

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2014

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Ultra Trail Running is distinctly different in culture and mental preparation than other running or endurance sports.  Veteran Trail Ultra Runner, Bob Crowley, visits with the Nation about what is unique about this sports culture.

  • Is there a difference between "doing" an ultra run and "being" an ultra runner?
  • What are some of the tenets of the trail running culture?
  • Are we losing the ultra trail running culture with the mass appeal and participation recently?
  • How can we keep the culture?
  • How does this culture helps us prepare mentally for the experiences that accompany a long trail race

An interesting perspective from Geoff Roes in his article, "Ultrarunning is Dead"

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Today's podcast is brought to you in part by Tailwind Nutrition and today's Tailwind

0:16.2

Tip is brought to you by one of the founders, Jenny.

0:22.6

And if you've gotten any tailwind, you've gotten a personal note from Jenny.

0:26.2

We'll pack that package with not only Tailwind to get you down the trail, a coca-pele and

0:30.8

often a personalized note.

0:33.6

Jenny, thanks for joining us.

0:35.6

Hey, you're welcome.

0:36.6

It's great to be here.

0:37.9

We wanted to catch up with you and grab on to this wind of tail that you have because

0:44.6

I tell you, I don't know what that means, God, but I've got to tell you that things are

0:48.8

growing around the Tailwind community.

0:51.3

And the nation has helped there.

0:52.9

I know that there's a lot of nation members out there that are sucking down the Tailwind.

0:57.5

And we used it before Jenny came along and helped sponsor this podcast and bring the

1:02.7

podcast to the listeners because in fact, it does take money to have servers and have

1:07.7

them deliver the messages and we appreciate tailwind support not only down the trail,

1:12.6

but down the ethernet.

1:14.6

Oh, that was bad.

1:15.6

I'm sorry, Scott.

1:16.6

So I got to think about things before I say them.

1:19.8

Jenny, give us an update of where Tailwind is.

1:21.9

We know that you've gone international.

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