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Today on the show Troy Meadows is talking with Kyla Maher. Kyla is a community organizer, and trail and ultra runner based in Bozeman Montana.  She is also a content producer and the athlete manager for Janji the up-and-coming running apparel brand that in Kyla’s words is a pocket company that also makes shorts. 

Kyla was not always the runner she is today and they dive into her journey from being a successful entrepreneur in the yoga space to making a decision to radically change her life by closing down her businesses and spending a year in service living out of a van and teaching yoga and meditation to inmates in prisons across the country. After a year she decided that she was ready for a change and ended up in Bozman where her love of the trails found her jumping feet-first into the ultra-running community. 

Kyla founded of the Bozman Run Club soon after moving to the mountain town and they unpack what it has meant to her to grow that club from the ground up.

They finish up the convo talking about her season of running completing at the Big Horn 50 miler, Crazy Mountain 100, Mongolian 42k, and The Bear 100.  We also talk about Scummy Summer Slammer a multiday FatAss from Bozman to Yellow Stone that the Bozeman Running Club puts on. This is kind of a Fight Club kinda race, remember you don't talk about Fight Club:)

Pre Show Links

Ultra Crew Hub Crewing Grindstone 100  with Troy Meadows

Trail Talk

Kyla’s Personal Links 

IG - ⁠@kylarosemaher

Show Links

“You are not the slowest one. You are the one with the most potential.”

Bozman Run Club

Good to Great by Jim Collins

Janji⁠

Races

Big Horn 52 miler

Crazy Mountain 100 

Mongolian 42k

The Bear 100

Kyla’s Personal Links 

IG - @kylarosemaher

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