Welcome back or welcome to the single track podcast. I am your host, Finn Malanson. In this episode,

we talk with Zoe Rome, who is the editor-in-chief at Trail Runner Magazine. We explore her

journalism and running backgrounds. We dive into tough topics around diversity in sport. We dig into how

Trail Runner Magazine operates and how they think about content and their place

in our sport as a media company.

And we finish up by talking about how to lean into curiosity, how to pursue stories, as well

as what good writing looks like.

I personally learned a ton in this conversation.

It was great to have Zoe on. Let's get

started.

Yeah, thanks so much. I'm glad to be here

there remotely. I think you are, well, Trail Runner Magazine is definitely well known in the

industry. And I also think you're pretty well known too. But for anybody that hasn't been acquainted,

can you talk about your background in the sport, how you got into it

and what you're up to now? Yeah. So, as I said, I worked at Trail Runner Magazine. I'm the

editor-in-chief. And I've been here for a little over two years, about two and a half years now.

I started out as the assistant editor and just kind of, you know, hung tight until the editor

retired. And so here I am. But it's,

you know, it's been an interesting time to work at Trail Runner, you know, particularly

weathering the pandemic, being acquired by Outside Inc. It's been a really exciting and fun time

to be a part of this organization, part of this magazine, to be able to kind of steer

the ship through a time of really interesting change and energy. But I, you know, I've been a writer

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