Aaron Lozier recaps his attempt (and rescue) of the infamous FKT route: The LA Freeway, a technical ridge traverse across the Continental Divide near Boulder, CO. Also in the episode, Miranda recaps her recent experience on the 4-day Soft Rock run across the San Juan mountains.

Show Notes:

• Aaron’s book, Anti-Hero recaps his experience in the Anarchist movement of the 90s.
• A Runner’s World Article on the Satan’s Minions Scrambling Club

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Samir Chopra is a Professor, Writer, and Philosophical Counselor in Boulder, CO. He joins us to discuss anxiety, grief, and guilt, as well as their relationship to life, running, and our beliefs.

Show Notes:

• Check out Samir’s counseling practice at samirchopra.com
• Check out Samir’s book: Anxiety: A Philosophical Guide
• A nice preamble to the book is his essay: The usefulness of dread
• We mention the sci-fi apocalypse book: The Beach

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Nathan Kurz returns to recap his Western States 100 and Hardrock 100 double, both run in under two weeks! We don’t leave any detail out in this long recap with one of his crew members for Hardrock, our very own Jon. Nathan was our very first podcast guest from Episode 1.

Show Notes:

• We mention the movie Unbreakable: The Western States 100 as inspiring Nathan to start applying.

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Eric Lee discusses his life in running, his incredible National Parks project where he is attempting to run an ultra in every National Park, and generally, how he finds his own adventure. We also cover giving back to the community through trail work and race volunteering, as well as Eric’s completion of the Nolan’s 14 line.

Show Notes:

• Check out Eric’s Blog, where he writes the reports about his National Parks project.
• Follow Eric on Instagram at @mtnrunner_elee
• Read Outside’s controversial article Trail Runners are Lazy Parasites

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In this emotional episode, Miranda and Jon both discuss their difficult year to date, and Jon recaps his High Lonesome 100 finish.

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Join us as we chat with Brendan Leonard, aka semi-rad, on his life, running, and his new book, Ultra Something. Jon just read it and really enjoyed it.

Show Notes:

• Buy Ultra Something at your local book store!
• Check out semi-rad.com and join the Newsletter!
• Follow @semi_rad on Instagram

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A conversation with the founders of Milestone Running, Greg Lemon (@glemon09) and Chad Crawford, who founded the most popular running store in San Diego. Collin Spink joins us as guest host with perma-host Miranda Williamson (@moderately_athletic).

Show Notes:

• Check Out Milestone Running (website, instagram), or join them for the very popular Wednesday night run at 6:15 from their original North Park store.
• Juntos Shoes was discussed in the episode.

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We discuss the Spring Energy Debacle with Professional Food Scientist Kelsey Banaszynski, who is also the Operations Director for the High Lonesome 100 and a 100-mile finisher herself. She lives in Buena Vista, CO and currently works for Campbell Soup Company.

Spring Energy has recently come under scrutiny for the validity of their nutritional claims on their products. In the episode, we recap the factual findings and discuss how this could have happened at Spring, how Spring should and can respond, and discuss how we should move forward to build trust not just in Spring, but in the whole running nutrition industry. We also reject some of the more toxic drama that is associated with this story.

For more info check out:

• Original reddit post by u/sriirachamayo
• iRunFar article covering the story
• German Trail Running Media article covering the story
• Spring’s Official Apology on Instagram
• KoopCast Episode #226 on Spring Energy - Nutrition Integrity and Transparency (Apple Podcasts Link)
• GoFundMe by Brayden Burgess to analyze multiple nutrition companies
• SQF and BRC food company certification article
• Jason Koops’s Spring analysis reports (scroll down)

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Before the episode, Jon recaps his San Diego 100 experience (race report). On the episode, we interview our friends Hannah and Camille on their alcoholism, journey to sobriety, recovery, and all of that’s relationship to running and ultrarunning.

If you or someone you know is having trouble with addiction, please consider taking the AA Self-Assessment.

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On this check-in episode with Miranda and Jon, Jon dives into his Niwot’s Challenge race recap and his San Diego 100 training. We answer questions from listeners such as, what should you do when a person with a bad attitude wants to join your group? and how to handle training over vacations?

Show Notes:

• Jon’s Niwot’s Challenge Race Report is live now on his blog.

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