Hello, glad that you decided to push play today.

It is just me in your ears.

My better half, Eddie, will join us for the next podcast.

Today, I am bringing you an episode that is really geared toward roadrunners that are looking to transition into trail running.

And there's a lot of questions, a lot of myths and mysteries about this type of big step into the world of trail.

And so I'm going to start with just five things.

Look for some future episodes where I will also be doing other solo sessions where I am going

to break down a little bit more about trail running, ultra running, mountain running.

They're pretty distinct in and of themselves, but they also have mainly and mostly a lot of similarities. But what is so cool

about trail running right now is that it is a wildly, quickly growing sport. And the distances

in trail are not just for those that want to run the

ultra distance. We're seeing distances like 10Ks, 15Ks, half marathons, full marathons. So I really

love this side of trail running. I think for a long time when we would think of trail running, we would immediately think

that it was the ultrad distance.

So a 50K, 100-mileer.

There's the rise now of what I like to call these epics.

It's beyond the 100-mile or anything beyond 100 miles from 135 miles, 150, 200, 250. And we see

destination trails is debuting the first 300 mile race this year. So lots of exciting things are

happening in trail. And I'll tell you what,

regardless of the distance that you choose, I guarantee you're going to have a lot of fun.

Trail running, in my opinion, is just like an adventure because no matter where you go to

trail run, it's different. Trail running for those you that are living on the East Coast,

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