Underdog No More? Rod Farvard’s Quest After Nearly Toppling Jim Walmsley

Singletrack

Finn Melanson

Wilderness, Trail Running, Sports, Sports News, Mountain Running, Running, Ultrarunning, Ultra Running, News, Ultramarathon

5 • 897 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Text us your thoughts about this episode or ideas for future episodes! Rod Farvard joins the Singletrack Podcast live from our Olympic Valley, CA studio during Western States race week to discuss what it really takes to compete at the highest level in trail and ultrarunning—and why he may be the biggest threat to the Western States crown in 2025. In 2024, Rod turned heads by going toe-to-toe with one of the sport’s greatest athletes, Jim Walmsley, at the Western States 100. His fearless fron...

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0:00.0	All right, we are back with day two of single tracks Western States 100-week coverage,
0:06.1	kicking off the day with good friend Rod the god Varvard.
0:12.2	Rod, how's it going?
0:13.6	I need to silence my phone.
0:15.9	Yeah, it's going well.
0:17.6	Brett's phone is kind of distract.
0:19.4	Oh, wait, I just got a notification that single track is live.
0:22.6	It's interviewing you.
0:26.5	It's going well. Yeah, staying up and truckie with an old friend right now, and it's just been quiet and chill.
0:33.0	Okay.
0:34.7	I'm a fan of the sports. I listen to and watch everything.
0:38.0	I was listening to your interview with Dylan yesterday.
0:41.5	Great interview.
0:42.6	One thing that you said that caught my attention was you don't feel like you have a target on your back.
0:47.7	That other athletes in the field are taking the limelight.
0:50.4	Who do you think is taking the limelight?
0:53.3	Oh, we don't need to name names.
0:56.0	Finn with the heavy hitters right off the bat.
0:58.9	No, I, so it's one thing that some athletes put themselves in the limelight, but I think
1:05.9	I also took myself out of it by having a subpar day at canyons at least in my head um which i'm actually
1:13.3	like pretty happy about i felt like a lot of pressure going into that race and i think if i went
1:18.4	into states feeling that the same pressure i was feeling at canyons it um i don't i don't know if i do
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