Tara Dower discusses her thru-hiking and FKT roots, balancing professional ultrarunning with strange, ambitious projects, Western States and PCT plans, UTMB views, road speed, Altra gear, and lessons from Karl Meltzer.
Calling Wade my dark horse pick is probably cheating. He finished third at UTMB last year. If a podium doesn't get you removed from dark-horse status, I'm not sure what does.
Karl Meltzer has spent the last three decades standing almost exactly where trail running’s underground culture has collided with its commercial future.
Harvey Lewis discusses his upbringing, teaching career, and the routines and motivations that shaped his decades of ultrarunning, including sauna and cold plunge practices.