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The Sub Stuff Ep 7 | This Week in Sub-Ultra ! US Mountain Running Champs Recap at Loon & Cirque Snowbird, Plus Mount Marathon & Kendall Mountain Run Results ! · The Steep Stuff Podcast

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: What's up, fam?
• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Steep Stuff Podcast.
• 0:02
  Speaker 1: I'm your host, james Lauriello, and today we are back with the Sub Stuff, episode 7.
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: So happy to bring that to you guys.
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: I know it's been a couple week layoff, or else last week would have been Episode 7, but I was away at my wedding in the San Juans having the time of my life.
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: So here we are still having the time of my life, bringing you Sub stuff, episode seven.
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: And boy oh boy, do we have a lot to catch up on, guys.
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: Um, we.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, we have results of two us mountain running champs one in the uphill, um, so like the vk distance, and one in the um up down us mountain running championships.
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: One took place at loon mountain race and one took place at cirque series snowbird.
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: Uh, cirque series snowbird, cirque Series Snowbird was actually last weekend.
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: We also have some results from the Cordillera Cordillera man, I butchered that word Blanca Sky Race for taking place in Peru on the Sky Running World Series, as well as the Kendall Mountain Run, as well as results from Mount Marathon.
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: We're also going to talk a little bit about some races coming up this weekend, most notably the Speedcoat 50K and 28K.
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  Speaker 1: So, without further ado, let's get into it.
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  Speaker 1: I think I'm going to start off with Loon.
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  Speaker 1: It took place two Sundays ago, july 7th.
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  Speaker 1: Loon Mountain Race was the US vertical you can say uphill, you can say vertical mountain running championship.
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  Speaker 1: The race itself took place in Lincoln, new Hampshire.
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  Speaker 1: It was about 6.03 miles with about 3,066 feet of vertical.
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  Speaker 1: The top two men and women, were the ones that were selected to go compete overseas.
• 1:40
  Speaker 1: There were some storylines here.
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  Speaker 1: Just the depth of the field man.
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  Speaker 1: There was, just like so many incredible athletes, one of the greatest, if that the greatest, of all time, mr joseph gray, showed up to race.
• 1:50
  Speaker 1: Uh, we had some killers on both the men's and women's side, including, but most notably, lauren gregory, john aziz, amber zimmerman, rachel tomziak, the great andy wacker um, check out episode 17 of the Steep Stuff podcast if you're interested in learning a little more about Andy Wacker.
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  Speaker 1: We also had Grant Cooligan, garrett Corcoran and just some wild boys showed up.
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  Speaker 1: So this was a really, really fun race up in New Hampshire.
• 2:19
  Speaker 1: We're going to get into races now, or we're going to kind of get into results now and talk about just some of the storylines that took place there.
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  Speaker 1: We'll start with the women.
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  Speaker 1: In first place was Ms Lauren Gregory, a Nike Trail athlete from Hanover, new Hampshire.
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  Speaker 1: One overall for the females in 53 minutes 18 seconds.
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  Speaker 1: In second place was Meryl Runner, rachel Tomciak, in 54 minutes 58 seconds.
• 2:42
  Speaker 1: Big shout out to Rachel.
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  Speaker 1: In third place was Amber Zimmerman in 54 minutes 58 seconds.
• 2:46
  Speaker 1: Big shout out to Rachel.
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  Speaker 1: In third place was Amber Zimmerman in 56 minutes two seconds.
• 2:47
  Speaker 1: In fourth place was Ava Thurston in 56 minutes 19 seconds.
• 2:52
  Speaker 1: In fifth place was Hannah Rowe in 56 minutes 37 seconds.
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  Speaker 1: In sixth place was Cassie Inman in 56 minutes 52 seconds.
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  Speaker 1: In seventh place was Kayla Lampe in 57 flat and in eighth place was Lindsay Perrano in 57, 32.
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  Speaker 1: So big shout out to these female athletes showed up to throw down a very tight spread between a first to eighth place.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, only about less than four minutes between first and eighth.
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  Speaker 1: So incredibly competitive.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And big shout out to Lauren Gregory and Rachel Tomciak for being selected for, uh, the national USA national team on the men's side.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, no surprise.
• 3:34
  Speaker 1: Uh, mr Joseph gray.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, the greatest of all time.
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  Speaker 1: The goat.
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  Speaker 1: In 49 minutes 27 seconds came away with the dub.
• 3:41
  Speaker 1: Uh, for those of you that don't know, 27 seconds came away with the dub.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, for those of you that don't know, this is Joe's 25th USA national championship.
• 3:49
  Speaker 1: Okay, if there's not another, more dominant runner out there, please let me know, but I don't think he or she exists.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, without a doubt, the greatest of all time, and he's.
• 3:56
  Speaker 1: He's just getting started at 40 years old.
• 3:58
  Speaker 1: Um, he's not just going to be breaking master's record, he's, he's going to be right Breaking overall records.
• 4:03
  Speaker 1: Um, so just big shout out to Joe.
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  Speaker 1: Just incredibly inspiring and uh, yeah, man, holy shit, 49, 27,.
• 4:10
  Speaker 1: Another dub and his 25th national championship.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Um, I don't think there'll ever be another like him.
• 4:17
  Speaker 1: In second place was Tyler McCandless and 49 41.
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  Speaker 1: In third place was the pride of Colorado Springs, two-time Pikes Peak champion, mr Jonathan Aziz, and 50 minutes 17 seconds.
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  Speaker 1: And fourth place was first ballot hall of famer One of the greatest to ever do it as well Mr Andy Wacker, in 52 minutes 12 seconds.
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  Speaker 1: In fifth place was the pride of salt Lake, mr Garrett Corker, and in 52, 57,.
• 4:39
  Speaker 1: A big result for Garrett Corker.
• 4:42
  Speaker 1: And I know, uh, big result for garrett corcoran.
• 4:47
  Speaker 1: I know he had made um, I think it was the marathon.
• 4:48
  Speaker 1: I think was the 40k team um in 2023.
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  Speaker 1: So I know he's trying to claw his way back to uh to make it into a usa national team.
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  Speaker 1: So congrats to garrett.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, definitely, certainly well in his way.
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  Speaker 1: In sixth place was mr eric blake in 53 19, and seventh place was bij Eric Blake in 53-19.
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  Speaker 1: And seventh place was Bijan Mazhareri in 53-26.
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  Speaker 1: And eighth place was the pride of Golden, mr Grant Cooligan, another Coloradan, in 53-50.
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  Speaker 1: Big shout out to him.
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  Speaker 1: Huge result, getting close, getting close, big, tight spread between first and eighth, just like the females we're looking at.
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  Speaker 1: Less than a three-minute spread between first and eighth.
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  Speaker 1: Just like the females, um, we're looking at, I mean, it's like a less than, it's like a less than a four, less than a three minute spread between first and eighth.
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  Speaker 1: So just wild, absolutely bananas.
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  Speaker 1: How competitive these races are.
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  Speaker 1: So big shout out to the men and women at loon.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, big shout out to uh tom hooper for putting this race on um again.
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  Speaker 1: These are just absolutely world-class events.
• 5:41
  Speaker 1: If you guys are looking for something to do on the East coast, um, you know, check out.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was three, six or six.
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  Speaker 1: Three endurance, uh, that Tom operates um and the Loon mountain race.
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  Speaker 1: They also do the Sunupy scramble.
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  Speaker 1: Um, that was the host of the and they were the host of the uh Sunupy up down and vertical races that were the U S championships in uh 2023.
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  Speaker 1: So, all right, guys, we're going to move on and we're going to get to Cirque series, snowbird what an absolute banger of a race.
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  Speaker 1: As well, a U S mountain running championship took place last Saturday, july 13th 2024, and snowbird, utah.
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  Speaker 1: Snowbird is also the home of the speed goat 50 K which, coincidentally, is going to be taking place on the 20th.
• 6:25
  Speaker 1: We're going to talk about that a little bit later in this preview slash breakdown of some of the races that we had.
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  Speaker 1: So the course itself if you guys are unaware, if you haven't listened to me in the past, this course is about 8.7 miles, so a little bit less than nine miles with 3,600 feet, so 3,610 feet of vertical.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, we top out twice over 11,000 feet on top of Mount Baldy as well as hidden peak, so kind of a little prelude.
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  Speaker 1: Just like a light version of a of speed goat, almost.
• 6:56
  Speaker 1: So just like a more mountainy speed goat.
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  Speaker 1: Um, just absolute killers on both sides of the course.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, oh my God, in the men's and women's we had, we had Grayson Murphy.
• 7:07
  Speaker 1: Um, I think she, before winning this, I think she had had four national titles overall for herself.
• 7:14
  Speaker 1: Um, on the female side, rachel Tomjiak.
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  Speaker 1: We had Alexa Aragon, mk Sullivan, giselle Slotboom, annie Cornish just like so many killers on the female side.
• 7:24
  Speaker 1: And on the men's side, we had the great Christian Allen, seth Damore If you guys aren't aware of Seth Damore, he's got a big YouTube channel.
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  Speaker 1: He's also one of the best in the United States on the mountain running scene.
• 7:36
  Speaker 1: Guy is an animal.
• 7:37
  Speaker 1: Mr Cam Smith, schemo athlete as well as stud, ultra runner or, excuse me, trail runner.
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  Speaker 1: Cole Campbell, david Kennedy and just so many absolute insane athletes turned out to this.
• 7:53
  Speaker 1: So a big shout out to Cirque series.
• 7:53
  Speaker 1: They finally got a U S mountain running championship.
• 7:54
  Speaker 1: If you guys have never researched series races, there's so much fun.
• 7:56
  Speaker 1: Um, it's.
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  Speaker 1: It's really the mountain classic in a lot of ways, and if you're unfamiliar with what a mountain classic is, it could be an up down.
• 8:03
  Speaker 1: And if you're unfamiliar with what a mountain classic is, it could be an up down.
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  Speaker 1: It's usually in that six to eight mile distance range with about, you know, 17, 19 to about 3000 feet of vertical could be, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So basically up and down in that like 10 K plus range.
• 8:16
  Speaker 1: So much fun you are.
• 8:18
  Speaker 1: You are killing yourself from start to finish red lining and it is just my kind of race.
• 8:23
  Speaker 1: So so much fun and big congrats.
• 8:26
  Speaker 1: We finally got one of these out in uh, in Utah as well, so in the mountain West.
• 8:29
  Speaker 1: A lot of times in the past we've had these races on the East coast, um.
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  Speaker 1: So it's really fun to finally get one of these championships on the West coast, uh, or slash mountain West, if you will, um so.
• 8:40
  Speaker 1: So some things to talk about here.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to get into the results.
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  Speaker 1: I'm.
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  Speaker 1: In.
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  Speaker 1: First place was miss Grayson Murphy.
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  Speaker 1: A big shout out to Grayson for showing up and absolutely dominating.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, she was pretty vocal after the race that you know she'd been struggling with a lot of health issues and just amazing, what an amazing effort to be able to come through when her fifth national title and be able to pull this off in one hour 36 minutes 17 seconds.
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  Speaker 1: And second place was miss Rachel Tomciak again, so that's doubling.
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  Speaker 1: So she competed at Loon the week before and doubled and came back and got second place this week as well.
• 9:16
  Speaker 1: So that's making two national teams.
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  Speaker 1: So, miss Rachel Tomciak, meryl Runner, big congratulations to her, getting it done in one hour 40 minutes and 23 seconds.
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  Speaker 1: And third place was Laurel Moyer from Pennsylvania, kind of new to the scene and absolutely making a name for herself, in one hour 40 minutes 37 seconds, so right behind Rachel.
• 9:36
  Speaker 1: And fourth place was Alexa Aragon and one hour 40 minutes 46 seconds.
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  Speaker 1: So just look at that spread between second and fourth.
• 9:44
  Speaker 1: Rachel, laurel and Alexa were pretty much right on top of one another.
• 9:47
  Speaker 1: You know the spread was less than 15 seconds between first and third or second and third fourth, so pretty wild.
• 9:54
  Speaker 1: And fifth place was MK Sullivan, a name you guys might recognize, in one hour 42 minutes two seconds.
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  Speaker 1: And sixth place was Sydney Peterson in one hour 42 minutes 39 seconds.
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  Speaker 1: And seventh was Giselle Slot boom, in one hour 42, 42.
• 10:10
  Speaker 1: And eighth place was Andy Cornish in one hour 46 minutes 25 seconds.
• 10:15
  Speaker 1: And ninth place was Oakley Olson in one hour 46 minutes 28 seconds.
• 10:19
  Speaker 1: And a 10th place was Flannery Davis love, in one hour 46 minutes 53 seconds.
• 10:25
  Speaker 1: So big shout out to the women's side of the field.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, just crazy, crazy times.
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  Speaker 1: 10 minutes spread between the first and 10th.
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  Speaker 1: Um, so just so competitive.
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: And just wow, yeah, um, what an incredible race on the men's side, none other than Mr Christian Allen in first first place in one hour 18 minutes 17 seconds.
• 10:45
  Speaker 1: Uh, and second place is rising star Mr Hawk call in one hour 19 minutes five seconds.
• 10:51
  Speaker 1: And third place was Zach Erickson in one hour 21 minutes and nine seconds.
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: And the fourth place was fan favorite Mason copy in one hour 21 minutes 16 seconds.
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  Speaker 1: And fifth place was Mr Taylor stack.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, the pride of both Salida and four Collins and starting to make a name for himself.
• 11:09
  Speaker 1: This guy also had a huge result Top five placement at Broken Arrow 23K as well In one hour 21 minutes 41 seconds.
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  Speaker 1: In sixth place was Anthony Williams in one hour 21 minutes and 48 seconds.
• 11:22
  Speaker 1: In seventh place was Mr Seth James Damore in one hour 22 minutes 20 seconds.
• 11:28
  Speaker 1: In eighth place was David Kennedy in one 22, 40.
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: And ninth was Mr Cole Campbell, friend of the pod, in one hour 23 minutes 17 seconds.
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: And 10th place was Schemo Great, mr Cam Smith, in one hour 23 minutes 36 seconds.
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: So just an absolute amazing performances from everybody all around.
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: Um, some big takeaways from this.
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: I mean, like I said before, this is grayson's fifth national title.
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: I mean, if she's not now in the conversation of one of the greatest female runners of all time.
• 11:59
  Speaker 1: Uh, on the sub ultra scene.
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: She absolutely should be.
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: So look at her go.
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: I mean, this is insane.
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: Um, also, rachel tomjiak.
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: Big shout out to rachel merrill runner.
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: This is a back to back weekend for her.
• 12:11
  Speaker 1: Like I said, she competed at Loon and now she came back and competed at Cirque series, snowbird taking place second place.
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: So podiums on both in two weeks back to back and making two us teams.
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: So big congratulations to Rachel.
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: That's absolutely incredible results and just so such range to be able to do both.
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: Um, you know there's a lot that can go wrong there, so being able to make it go right is just pretty impressive.
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: Um, some other takeaways Mr Hawk call, I would say, is now forced to be reckoned with.
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: Uh, watch out for Hawk call.
• 12:40
  Speaker 1: Uh, the pride of Orem Utah.
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: Just like Christian Allen.
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: Um, this kid has a future, big future in the sport.
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: So pretty cool.
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: Uh, it's going to be exciting to see what he can do over the next uh, over his career as he starts to take off.
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: Um, as well as Christian Allen might just be one of the best trail runners in the world right now, and probably is.
• 12:59
  Speaker 1: I mean it's just absolutely dismantled the field and take first overall in this race.
• 13:03
  Speaker 1: Uh, mr Christian Allen has arrived and he's not going anywhere.
• 13:07
  Speaker 1: So congratulations to Christian.
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: Pretty exciting.
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: Um, you know, I'll be excited to see what he can do um in racing in Europe this year.
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: I think he's going to be at series and all.
• 13:16
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure I want to look into that.
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: All right, so, moving on from Cirque series, snowbird want to just congratulate all the amazing men and women athletes that competed um at theS Mountain Running Champs.
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: So big congrats.
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: Moving on to the Codora Cora de la Ria Blanca Sky Race that took place a few weeks back, july 7th 2024.
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: This was one of the stops on the Skyrunner World Series.
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: I definitely did not want to gloss over this race, so I just wanted to give a quick little shout out and a little rundown on kind of what took place.
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: We could talk about the one through 10 on both the men and women's side, as well as talking about this race overall.
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: Pretty sick.
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: Big shout out to Rio and Benjamin Townsend, some local Colorado Springs athletes that went out to compete there, as well as some friends of the pod.
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, just just a really hard race.
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: I mean the top.
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  Speaker 1: The high point of this race was 14 435 feet, so that's like an average elevation of like 4 400 meters.
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: Um, the race itself was about 22.5k with about 1362 meters of vertical, so it's only about 4 468 feet for about a you know, a little bit less than a half marathon distance, but still just a bananas elevation.
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: So you're starting out at about a little bit over 10,000 feet and climbing up a 14er.
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: It's kind of an up-down race so you'll hit the high point kind of in the middle of the race and it's just a huge ascent in the first half and a huge ascent in the second half.
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: It looks like the Peruvians no surprise there showed up in a big way.
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: We can talk about the men's side.
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: First, jose Manuel Cuzepe, merrill Runner, from Peru, took the dub in 2 hours 3 minutes 58 seconds, followed by Luca De Pero, from the Italian, in 2 hours 6 minutes 22 seconds.
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: In third place was Mr Joseph Mamimi, another Peruvian, in 2 hours 6 minutes 58 seconds 59 seconds, just behind Luca De Pero.
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: In fourth place was Joel Pumacayo, another Peruvian, in two hours 10 minutes 28 seconds.
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: In fifth place was Mr Daniel Antolini, a big fan favorite on the Skyrunner World Series.
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: Just kind of a very consistent runner Taking fifth place in two hours 11 minutes 25 seconds.
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: In sixth place was Miguel Angel Perez in two hours 11 minutes 46 seconds.
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: In seventh place was Gustavo Brutiga in two hours 12 minutes 27 seconds.
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: In eighth place was Frank Munez in two hours 14 minutes 47 seconds.
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: In ninth place was friend of the podcast, new zealand athlete slash american athlete in, mr jackson cole.
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: Ninth place at two hours 15 minutes 45 seconds.
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: Big shout out to my lost sportiva teammate, jackson cole, absolutely getting it done in proper fashion, uh.
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: And tenth place was mr oscar besantes in two hours 16 minutes 14 seconds.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: So big shout out to the men's field.
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: What a stacked race.
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: Um, you know, just just a crazy, crazy, crazy uh race just going up to 14,000 feet, just bananas, all right, there's some little more uh name recognition, I'd say um, from some of the more international athletes in the women's race.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: I think that was a little bit more fun to follow along.
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: In first place was Karina Carciolo, the black diamond runner from Mexico, winning to overall for the women Excuse me taking the dub in two hours 37 minutes 19 seconds.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: In second place was Emma Cook-Clark, the Canadian who runs for Arc'teryx, in two hours 38 minutes 17 seconds.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: In third place was one of the greatest to ever do it as well.
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: Miss Hilary Girardi, american living in France, also has the Mont Blanc record.
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: She's done everything.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: Just a really inspiring athlete.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: Anyway, hilary took third in two hours 43 minutes 11 seconds.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: In fourth place was Ana Maria Pineda, of Colombia, I believe, in 2 hours 52 minutes 35 seconds.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: In fifth place was Ladia Diaz of Peru, in 2 hours 55 minutes 57 seconds.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: In sixth place was Lizette Natalia, of Peru as well, in 2 hours 57, 37.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: In seventh place was Elizabeth Serrano, of Peru as well, in two hours 57.37.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: In seventh place was Elizabeth Serrano, of Peru as well, in three hours 40 seconds.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: In eighth place was Rebecca Crono of South Africa, in three hours four minutes.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: In ninth place was Karina Anderson.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: Shout out to the American, two Americans in the top 10, not bad.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: Ninth place in three hours six minutes 43 seconds.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: And in 10th place was miss Paula, mayor, of Germany, in three hours 10 minutes 11 seconds.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: So big shout out.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: What a fun race.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: And then we had a lot of the American contingent show out to show up to this race.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: Um, pretty exciting, I know, I think, uh, morgan Elliott was in the mix.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: Mercedes Siegel Gaither was in the mix.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: Like I said, we had Rio and Benjamin Townsend out there from Colorado Springs.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: So just a big shout out to everybody, all of our local Coloradans that went out and threw down, and a huge shout out as well to Jackson Cole, friend of the pod, for getting it done in top 10 fashion.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: Just an absolute animal Good professional.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: All right guys.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: Well, we did the preview episode for Kendall mountain run, so I'm just going to do a really quick little rundown of the results as well.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: The Kendall mountain run, if you're unfamiliar with it or if you're an international listener, is a Colorado based race takes place in Silverton, colorado, Every year is the first weekend after the 4th of July, the week before hard rock.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: Um always.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: This year took place on Sunday, july 7th 2024.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: In silverton, colorado, starting at about an elevation of about 9 300 ish feet, running up to about 13 066 feet, um on the kind of the lookout point of kendall mountain, which is a notable 13 er in colorado, kind of an iconic peak.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: Um.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Three former champions ran this race.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: We had cam smith, seth demore and noah williams.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: Seth demore, a one-time winner, cam Smith at the time a one-time winner and Noah Williams a two-time winner.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: So pretty awesome to see, uh, three champions come and throw down Um.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: We also crowned a new women's champ this this year, which was pretty exciting, um, and yeah, so we can kind of get into the course as well.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: Like I said, about 12 miles and the we go up about 3,300, maybe more feet or so, so it's really fun.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: It's on a steep fire road so it's fast.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: You know it's going to be speedy.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: Um, if you're good at altitude and you got a little scramble at the top, um, you can definitely get some some pretty fast RPMs in this race.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Uh, we can start out with the females.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: A big shout out to Coloradoado springs favorite, miss jenny yeeman.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Uh, getting the dub in two hours 12 minutes 35 seconds.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: Champion of the kendall mountain run.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Congrats to her.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Pretty exciting, she's pretty good in the short course stuff.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: Not too bad, um.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: In second place was miss amber tukey in two hours 12 minutes 56 seconds, so not too far behind jenny um.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: In third place was corinne shallow boy, the pride of Castle Rock, in two hours 13 minutes 27 seconds.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: And fourth was fan favorite Miss Lindsay McDonald from Arizona in two hours 17 minutes 18 seconds.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: And in fifth place was Emma Sajud in two hours 20 minutes 36 seconds.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: Moving on to the men's side, in first place was none other than schemo.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Great, and I feel like I talk about this guy in every top 10.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: Mr cam smith, what an animal taking the dub in one hour 40 minutes 16 seconds.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Not as fast as time here, but not too bad, not, not too, not too shabby, getting it done against some absolute studs.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: Um, in second place was none other than mr seth demore, who also just competed at the us mountain running champs this past weekend getting Um, and second place was none other than Mr Seth DeMoore, who also just competed at the U?
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: S mountain running champs this past weekend, getting it done in second place in one hour 42 minutes 17 seconds.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: I do actually want to make a little segue back to Kim Smith.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: So Kim Smith took first at this race and ran one hour 40 minutes.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: The day before the dude won the veil uphill race, um, on that Saturday.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: The race takes place on a Sunday, so this dude raced and Vail on Saturday, took the dub at the Vail uphill and then came here and took the dub at Kendall mountain.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: What an absolute beast.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Um.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Big shout out to camp.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: This kid is.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: This kid's on fire, this kid's getting fit.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: Um, like I said, one of the best, if not the best, male schemo athlete in America.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: Just a freak of nature.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: So big shout out to Cam.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: In third place was none other than my La Sportiva teammate, mr Noah Williams, two-time winner of the Kendall Mountain Run, showing up in third place just behind Seth D'Amore by less than 30 seconds running, in one hour 42 minutes 41 seconds.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Big shout out to Noah, nice work.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: In fourth place was two-time Leadville champion, mr Adrian McDonald, in one hour 47 minutes 17 seconds.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: This guy's got some wheels.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: It sounds like he's going to be back to Leadville this year in search of Matt Carpenter's course record.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: So let's give him a shout out.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: And fifth place was Mr Ryder Searle in one hour 47 minutes 25 seconds.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: So big shout out to the Kendall mountain run.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: What a fun race.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: Just so much going on there.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Um, I was just in Silverton this past weekend and just uh, you know, kind of spectating hard rock and just hanging out and man, just what a special place to be.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: Uh, this time of the year, one of the most beautiful places on the planet.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Don't go, because we don't.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: We don't want too many people there.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Just kidding.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Um, all right, guys, one more race we got to talk about.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: Uh, that I'm overlooked Um shouldn't say overlooked, but just didn't didn't do a preview for, because there are just so many races this year.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: I think next year we're going to do a preview for this race because I'm really excited to do it.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: I'm going to try to get into it next year.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: And this is the Mount marathon race that takes place in Seward, alaska.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: It's the hardest 5k probably in the world, I guess, I don't know Taking place Thursday, july 4th 2024 in Seward, alaska.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: 3.1 miles, 3000 plus feet of vertical.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Basically up a mountain, down a mountain just just such an iconic race and so hard.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we had a new course record this year.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: We had just absolute bananas of a race.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Um, yeah, we get to start with.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: We'll start with the women.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: We'll just go into the top five and just give a little breakdown and a shout out for the you know, the hard competing men and women on both sides of the race.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Um, and first place was none other than North face athlete and Alaskan native, claire Rhodes, in 49 minutes 49 seconds.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: And second place was Kendall Framer in 51 minutes 20 seconds.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: And third place was Meg Onokuma in 51, 59.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: And fourth place was Hannah LaFleur in 53, 04.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: And in fifth place was Christy Marvin in 53, 17.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: So big shout out to those ladies.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: On the men's side, we had a new course record.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: None other than David Norris, who just whooped my ass at Cirque Series.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Brighton, comes back a week later to Mount Marathon, I don't even know.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: I think this is fourth, third or fourth, maybe fifth title, I don't even know.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: By the way, when he won his first time around and took the course record, he took it off Killian Jornet.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: This guy is so talented.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: So big shout out to David Norris taking the dub and a new course record of Mount Marathon in 40 minutes 37 seconds.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: In second place was none other than legend, mr Max King in 42.54.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: In third place was Jesse McAlvery in 4402.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: And fourth place was the pride of Manitou Springs, mr Ali Papalan, in 4441.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: And fifth place was his brother, I believe, bodie gross, in 4454.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Big shout out to Ali and Bodie.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: These guys, I mean, I saw them in the off season almost like on a multiple weekly basis, just like doing workouts on the magnitude incline.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: These guys are so fit, so fast and just putting in so much hard work.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: So and and you know, I want to give a shout out to I think believe it's their father as well, dorian gross as well just such hard work these guys were putting in and it was just really cool to be able to get inspired by that when I was in my off season this past year as well.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: I'm just kind of watching them just do workouts on the incline and and seeing what they were doing.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: It was just something special, like you knew that they were.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: They had something.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: You know they're cooking something up.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: So they had a little, they tested things it seemed like at Broken Arrow and then came out to marathon and just absolutely shut shit down.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: So congrats to these boys.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Fourth and fifth place.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: It won't be long before they're winning the race, so big shout out to Ali and Bodie.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Um, yeah, so that's Mount marathon.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: What an awesome race.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Pretty, pretty solid, pretty sweet.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: Um, yeah.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: So I'm just going to kind of get into what's going on this this upcoming week, not going to get too crazy.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: I just really want to talk about Speed Goat and that's going to be taking place this Saturday, 7-20-2024.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: The Speed Coat 50K in Snowbird, utah one of the hardest, if not the hardest, 50k in the States.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: When I say hard, I say 31 miles with 11,000, almost 12,000 feet of vertical pretty wild.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: The field this year is going to be absolutely stacked.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: We're not doing a course preview for it, but I might throw a little something out there.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: We can talk about the women's side.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: The women's side is absolutely stacked.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Miss Brittany Charbonneau, the pride of Denver, colorado and North Face Athlete, is going to be out there to throw down, as well as MK Sullivan, jazz Lothar, my teammate, kelly Wolfe from the La Sportiva team, molly Noyes, juliette Soule and Emileze Van Avis.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: On the men's side, we're going to have another rematch between Adam Peterman and David Sinclair.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: I think this will be the third one.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: David Sinclair beat Adam Peterman at the Broken Arrow 46K this year, whereas Adam Peterman beat David Sinclair at the 2022 canyons 100 K.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: So it's going to be fun, for uh, see a little tiebreaker here between Adam and David.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Um, we're also going to have David or, excuse me, david Sinclair, chad Hall.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Uh, ryan Becker is going to be showing up, the pride of telluride and none other than Mr David Hedges.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: Dude's been out in idaho getting fit.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Uh, just had a pretty solid race and meet the minotaur.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: So I this, this is his jam, his kind of race, kind of the the reigning nolan's um nolan's 14 record holder.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: We're also going to have zachary gardner coming out.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Um, really fit guy um.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: I believe Zach Gardner just won the um.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: What the hell was the name of that race?
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: The um?
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: He won some race in Europe that was really big that I can't remember the name of.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: So big shout out to Zachary Gardner, as well as none other than Sam Hendry.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: Big shout out to his Sam Hendry um showing up to a 50 K start line this year.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: This guy's usually a short course beast.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: So that's all we got for this week.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: Guys Do want to give one last shout out to my good buddy, brad Barrett, taking the FKT a couple of weeks back it was during 4th of July weekend on the Sunshine and Red Cloud and the San Juans two 14ers.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: So big shout out to him.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: As well as friend of the podcast, aaron Ton, who is currently going after the Nolan's 14 record.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: So big shout out to Aaron.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Um, yeah, so many incredible, inspiring athletes doing some incredible things this time of the year.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: So, without further ado, guys, steep stuff.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: Podcast is the sub stuff, episode seven.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Hope you enjoyed.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: Hope you got some value out of it.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: I'll see y'all next week and keep a lookout for the episode dropping on Friday.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: Have a great week, everybody, thank you.