Welcome back or welcome to Single Track Podcast.

I'm your host, Finn Melanson, and in this episode, Brett Hornig and I sit down with Josh Rowe,

a performance nutritionist for Morton to talk about all things ultra-running nutrition.

One thing to note before we get started, we do have a financial interest in this episode.

Specifically, Morton is a sponsor of the single track podcast. They helped

make our coverage of the Western States 100 possible. And part of our sponsorship agreement

included an episode with someone inside their organization. That said, and I'm sure you'll be

able to tell from the content of this conversation, our Stoke levels were pretty darn high to talk with Josh,

and we learned a ton about how they're working in concert with athletes, people like Killian

Jornais and Tom Evans, to establish the cutting edge of ultra-running endurance nutrition strategies.

So with that, let's get started. Josh Roe, it's a pleasure to have you here live with us in the single track studio, Olympic Valley, California.

We're not publishing this the week of Western States.

It'll be out, I believe, the Wednesday or Thursday afterstates.

But I think before we get into the nuts and bolts of all of Bret and I's nutrition-based questions. Tell the audience your

role at Morton what that means in lay terms and what you're doing here at Western States today.

Yeah, so yeah, thanks for having me on. It's a bit daunting actually from the guests you've had

the last couple of days than to kind of

have me. Yeah, it feels like a big app to follow. But yeah, my role at Morton is I'm kind of

a performance scientist. So I do a lot of product development, work in the chemistry and formulation

team within the nutrition team. And it's a bit of a kind of dual role where we do yeah product

development but then also a lot of kind of kind of sports science support with our athletes and that's

kind of how we kind of work in terms of our R&D is we do a lot of kind of investigative work on

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