Race Director and rebel runner, this week we welcome to the show Andrew ‘Fergy’ Ferguson a Race Director at MudCrew Events here in the UK and a well travelled runner of the world trail running scene.

Ferg talks to Tris and Jay about some of the trials and tests of establishing a trail running events company back when such things were new! MudCrew famously don’t do easy!. Ferg and the other two race directors at MudCrew have travelled the world to experience the best and worst in events’ organisation, pulling the parts they like into MudCrew’s iconic RAT (Roseland August Trail) weekend and the epic winter, internationally renowned Arc of Attrition 100 on the savage Cornish coastline in deepest darkest January. We hear how they managed to turn a race from single digit entry numbers into a Western States qualifier.

Race Directors have an unforgiving job and MudCrew’s reputation as friendly, hospitable (we talk ‘honey pot’ aid stations) and tough are all accolades they have earned. Keeping everyone from land owners to locals happy while herding over a thousand runners along single file cliff top paths safely, sometimes in both directions, takes some doing, and in the start no one knew how.

We also hear some of Ferg's thoughts on the future of running clubs and whether the anti establishment, rebel runners are the future in our hyper connected lives. Less club night, more flash mob.

Listen to the show here: https://www.trailanderror.co.uk/podcast or via your favourite podcast source.

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Thanks for listening!!

Jay and Tris

Show Links

You can find MudCrew here:        http://mudcrew.co.uk

and here:            https://www.instagram.com/mudcrew_events/ 

Follow Fergs adventure on Instagram:     https://www.instagram.com/ultrafergy

And get a flavour of the BRUTAL Arc of Attrition here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uojIZtERh9w