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Free Outside
Free Outside is a trail running, ultrarunning, thru-hiking, backpacking, and outdoor adventure podcast hosted by Jeff Garmire. Jeff is an Appalachian Trail record holder, professional endurance athlete, coach, author, and someone who has spent an unreasonable amount of his life running through forests and living out of a backpack. The show features honest and entertaining conversations with elite ultrarunners, record-setting thru-hikers, FKT athletes, coaches, race directors, adventurers, and…
Episodes
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Pursuit of Happiness: Mental Health Journey with Ultrarunning, FKTs, Thru Hiking, and Trail Running
I answer the audience question: "I'd love to hear more about your mental health journey as an ultrarunner. This community is wonderful, but it's also cutthroat…
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Crocs, Eclipses, Trail Running Contracts, Bear Encounters, and thru hiking the Pangea Traverse with Lil Buddha
I discuss Crocs, eclipses, a game called Deal or No Deal with trail running contracts, and an interview with Lil Buddha about his Pangea Traverse and bear…
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Doping, FKTs, Cocodona, UTMB, Trail Running, and Ugly Rocks in this solocast
In this episode we discusses various topics including FKTs, the Cocodona race, UTMB, doping in trail running, and the concept of power hiking. Also, some jokes…
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Setting Guiness World Records Running on the Treadmill with Don Reichelt
Don Reichelt, a Guinness World Record holder for running on a manual treadmill, joins the podcast. He shares his motivation for attempting the record and the…
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Hallucinations on the Trails
Summary Hallucinations are crazy! I also did no research on why they happen. But in this episode, I will share some stories of my favorite hallucinations…
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Setting the PCT Record with Nick Fowler, the FKT extraordinaire
Summary In this conversation, I interview Nick Fowler, a renowned thru-hiker and FKT (Fastest Known Time) record breaker. We discuss Nick's experiences with…
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Recap of the Cocodona 250
Summary The Cocodona 250-mile recap episode. The preparation, the beginning of the race, the middle of the race, and the end of the race. I could not do this…
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Cocodona Episode: Trail Running, Thru Hiking, and FKTs are all the same
This is the intro to a big new podcast with me, Jeff Garmire, while I am in the middle of running the Cocodona 250. I share my thoughts on FKTs, trail running…