Mathias sleeps in his new tent and welcomes summer. Doug discovers trails and worries about bears after a long winter. The two discuss best practices to stay safe in the backcountry when traveling beyond cell coverage and especially lately, solo.

Doug gets a haircut, Mathias a Strava subscription, and UTMB gets cancelled. This week is full of new stuff, fun stuff, and sad stuff. The future of trail running is discussed and how timber harvesting changes local trails.

Let’s have a podcast to talk about another podcast – that’s new. But seriously, in this week’s episode we dive into the phenomena of the “Fastest Known Time” run, and find obscure routes for ourselves. Good Times. Five Stars.

Our first virtual race was an incredible success and we’re excited to sit down with women’s race winner Tabatha Collins who shares her challenges with teaching first graders during this time, overcoming injury and running up and down her backyard hill 188 times.
The show includes bacon, torrential downpours and lots of unfinished paperwork.

Some state parks and other public lands are slowly being opened up for outdoor activity. What does this mean for us trail runners and how should we behalf when heading for the trail heads? This and other hard hitting questions are being discussed in this week’s show.
Also: Virtual Vert Challenge is happening this weekend and the Virtual Trail Running Film Festival is coming to your living room.
Exciting times in quarantine-land.

Year three of Singletrack kicks off with a bam. James Varner of Rainshadow Running and Abram Dickerson of Aspire Adventure Running stop by to talk about the upcoming Virtual Trail Running Film Festival. Of course, there’s other stuff too, like injury talk, exciting!

There was a time… you might dimly remember it… when the best life was… lived outdoors, when people would gather to share experiences, to laugh, to celebrate.
Well, here we are today, and we’re making lemonade and all that good stuff.

Aside from the weather your favorite podcast hosts don’t talk about running, again. Here are their favorite songs currently on their playlist, so you get something out of listing to this.

Doug and Mathias discuss how to venture into the outdoors in a safe manner and come up with a few rules on how to enjoy the outdoors in these crazy times we live in. They celebrate the ingenious backyard projects and our endless yearning for adventure.
The mountain will wait for us, but will we be patient to wait for them?

Doug finds bags of flour to bake and shares a story of one of his favorite runs in Glacier National Park.
Mathias contemplates running every single street in Olympia again and shares some of his favorite Tailwind flavors… buzz buzz…