It’s our second-ever EMERGENCY POD, and we finally wore down Paul Kentor (a.k.a SteelTownRunner) to come on the show and share his unparalleled fund of ultrarunning knowledge with us. We discuss Des’ amazing (if not unexpected) performance, the history of the road 50K as a competitive event (on the world scene not much), the historical context of this performance, and where we’d want to see Des go next.

Links
Among many other articles about this, here’s irunfar’s coverage of the WR
SteelTownRunner on Twitter and IG

Beer for this episode: Industrial Arts Wrench