Day 21 of the Dog Days of Podcasting, where I will attempt to do a show every day for the month of August. Find out more at dogdaysofpodcasting.com. More information about me at RunSmith.net.

Day 20 of the Dog Days of Podcasting, where I will attempt to do a show every day for the month of August. Find out more at dogdaysofpodcasting.com. More information about me at RunSmith.net.

Day 19 of the Dog Days of Podcasting, where I will attempt to do a show every day for the month of August. Find out more at dogdaysofpodcasting.com. More information about me at RunSmith.net.

Play at double speed! :-) Day 18 of the Dog Days of Podcasting, where I will attempt to do a show every day for the month of August. Find out more at dogdaysofpodcasting.com. More information about me at RunSmith.net.

Day 17 of the Dog Days of Podcasting, where I will attempt to do a show every day for the month of August. Find out more at dogdaysofpodcasting.com. More information about me at RunSmith.net.

Day 16 of the Dog Days of Podcasting, where I will attempt to do a show every day for the month of August. Find out more at dogdaysofpodcasting.com. More information about me at RunSmith.net.

Day 14 of the Dog Days of Podcasting, where I will attempt to do a show every day for the month of August. Find out more at dogdaysofpodcasting.com. More information about me at RunSmith.net.

Day 13 of the Dog Days of Podcasting, where I will attempt to do a show every day for the month of August. Find out more at dogdaysofpodcasting.com. More information about me at RunSmith.net.

I lined up at the Western States 100 Mile Endurance Run. Here you find out what happened. Hopefully this will be helpful for anyone hoping to do this race. I also talk about the incredible accomplishment of my nephew Kurt Slattery! I talk slowly. Play at double speed! Click to Download RSS Feed YouTube version of the podcast! Same exact content, just put on YouTube for those who don't do podcasts. Please donate to keep this show going! THANK YOU! Episode 39 of the East Coast Trail and Ultra Podcast, in which I was interviewed! It's very funny. Article about my nephew Kurt Slattery's amazing day to get into the John Deere Classic Golf Tourney! Be sure to watch the video in it! Camille Herron, Michael Wardian YiOu Wang Drop bags These two folks snuck into my own picture and I got relegated to being a photobomber. With Gordy Ansleigh. Nikki Kimball Gunhild Swanson John Fegyveresi Jim Walmsley Race start Climbing up to the escarpment. Looking back down on Squaw Valley. Snow. Lots of snow. Creeks. Lots. Mud. Lots. Fun! Beautiful views. Some trails were nice. Some a bit rocky. My daughter My wife. At the awards ceremony. That's Gordy again. Women's winner Cat Bradley. Men's winner Ryan Sandes. Michael Wardian, left, and 5th place Chris DeNucci. Second place Alex Nichols. In N Out Burger. WS hat I bought.

Day 12 of the Dog Days of Podcasting, where I will attempt to do a show every day for the month of August. Find out more at dogdaysofpodcasting.com. More information about me at RunSmith.net.

Day 11 of the Dog Days of Podcasting, where I will attempt to do a show every day for the month of August. Find out more at dogdaysofpodcasting.com. More information about me at RunSmith.net.

Day 10 of the Dog Days of Podcasting, where I will attempt to do a show every day for the month of August. Find out more at dogdaysofpodcasting.com. More information about me at RunSmith.net.

Day 8 of the Dog Days of Podcasting, where I will attempt to do a show every day for the month of August. Find out more at dogdaysofpodcasting.com. More information about me at RunSmith.net.

Day 7 of the Dog Days of Podcasting, where I will attempt to do a show every day for the month of August. Find out more at dogdaysofpodcasting.com. More information about me at RunSmith.net.

Day 6 of the Dog Days of Podcasting, where I will attempt to do a show every day for the month of August. Find out more at dogdaysofpodcasting.com. More information about me at RunSmith.net.

Day 5 of the Dog Days of Podcasting, where I will attempt to do a show every day for the month of August. Find out more at dogdaysofpodcasting.com. More information about me at RunSmith.net.

Day 4 of the Dog Days of Podcasting, where I will attempt to do a show every day for the month of August. Find out more at dogdaysofpodcasting.com. More information about me at RunSmith.net.

Day 3 of the Dog Days of Podcasting, where I will attempt to do a show every day for the month of August. Find out more at dogdaysofpodcasting.com. More information about me at RunSmith.net.

Day 2 of the Dog Days of Podcasting, where I will attempt to do a show every day for the month of August. Find out more at dogdaysofpodcasting.com. More information about me at RunSmith.net.

Day 1 of the Dog Days of Podcasting, where I will attempt to do a show every day for the month of August.  Find out more at dogdaysofpodcasting.com.  More information about me at RunSmith.net. 

This is a test for the 2017 Dog Days of Podcasting where I and some other podcasters try to do a podcast a day for 30 days. The actual challenge begins tomorrow on August 1, but today I am just testing the system.  This is separate from my regular Topics in Endurance Sports podcast. 

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I talk a lot about the 2017 Western States Training Camp that I recently did. With interviews. Click to Download Youtube version of the podcast. Same content as the podcast. Just for folks who don't do podcasts. Please donate to keep this show going! THANK YOU! Here's Mark Thill, and also Karen Ringheiser and Dima Feinhaus, all of whom I interviewed. The first of the Run Steep Get High videos I mentioned that covered the Training Runs. See #'s 148 and 149 for the next two. The essay I wrote: Top Ten Reasons to do the Western States Training Camp. Thirty Hours, the video about Wally Hesseltine. I mentioned this video, which is a course overview. There are a bunch of videos and podcasts covering the 2017 race now as well. Some pictures from the Training Camp. I'd really need to post 50 pictures to capture it all, but here's a few of them. With Clare Gallagher. With Kaci Lickteig. With Elov Olsson. With Nicole Kalogeropoulos. With Zach Bitter. With Stephanie Howe Violett. With Magda Boulet. With Tim Twietmeyer. With Jeff Browning. With Ian Sharman.

I ran the Grayson Highlands 50K in Virginia and talk about it and interview others who ran it. Also, my 50 mile weekend, the YMCA, and Five Chinese Brothers. Click to Download Listen to this episode on YouTube! Same content, just for those who don't do podcasts. Please donate to keep this show going! THANK YOU! This episode brought to you by: Spoken Bicycles of Middletown Ohio. Spoken Bicycles is a new bicycle shop in downtown Middletown that also features a craft beer taproom. They offer new road, hybrid and city bikes. They service all bikes, and have gear and accessories you can't find anywhere else in the Midwest. They also have group rides and runs that leave from the shop. Visit their website at www.spokenbicycles.com for more information about their store! I gave the WRONG TWITTER HANDLE: It's @RunSmithE (not @RunSmith) Donate to Shawn Bearden's 777 Marathon Challenge at the Science of Ultra. Do it in May and he'll match your donation! Grayson Highlands 50K I mentioned the Frozen Sasquatch Race. Some pics from when I did it in 2016: I mentioned UROC. And the Highlands Sky Trail Run. Barney mentioned the Barkley Fall Classic, ARFTA, and RUTS. Julie and Sandy (whom I interviewed) And Barney Pictures from the Grayson Highlands Race: Elevation chart: We crossed the Appalachian Trail many times: With race direction Sean "Run Bum" Blanton The Five Chinese Brothers

I talk to Amy Costa about the Marathon des Sables, a stage race in the Moroccan Sahara. Thanks to Moroccan singer Fouad Zabadi for the music. This episode brought to you by: Spoken Bicycles of Middletown Ohio. Spoken Bicycles is a new bicycle shop in downtown Middletown that also features a craft beer taproom. We offer new road, hybrid and city bikes. We service all bikes, and have gear and accessories you can't find anywhere else in the Midwest. We will also be having group rides and runs that leave from the shop. Visit our website at www.spokenbicycles.com for more information about our store! Check out the MdS videos of Amy! Interesting MdS info. Episode 133 of Talk Ultra, wherein Ian Corless interviews MdS winner Elizabet Barnes and others. Badwater 135. Tor des Geants. Spartathlon. The Coastal Challenge. Grand to Grand. Other desert stage races. LOTS of stage races. Article about desert stage races. You can watch this podcast on YouTube. Exact same content. Click to Download Pictures from Amy: Click to Download

Haulin' in the Holler 50K, Yamacraw 50K, my three near-death experiences. I also talk about the "Mound" and K. V. Switzer. You can watch this episode on YouTube. Same content as the podcast. Click to Download Haulin' in the Holler (2015) & Yamacraw medals Haulin' in the Holler 50K & 25K & 5K Course map West Virginia Mountain Trail Runners Pictures of Haulin' in the Holler: Their own special portapotty! Folks I interviewed from Haulin' in the Holler: Nick Kelly and Jessica Wolfe Justin and Sarah Ray Holly Bailey Mary Ann Yarborough Me with RD Gregg Yarborough in 2015 Yamacraw 50K & 20K & 10K No Business 100 Daniel Boone National Forest Big South Fork River & Recreation Area Pictures of Yamacraw: Here I am! Thanks to T Gregory Knox for the photo. Folks I interviewed at Yamacraw Donna Russell and Ruth Sutton Les Wilkinson Me with RD Brian Gajus I mentioned Sword Endurance Drink Canyon de Chelly Ultra (55K) Article about Canyon de Chelly Ultra Smokies Challenge Adventure Run (SCAR) Article about fast packing Mound Science and Energy Museum Mound Science & Energy Museum, and tour of building T "Advanced" electromechanical calculator, late 40's Nuclear artillery shell fired from an 9-inch Howitzer. It weighed 200 pounds and had a yield of 100-1000 tons of TNT. It had neutron bomb capacity. From ultrarunner and Los Alamos physicist Blake Wood: "The idea behind a "neutron bomb" is that the lethal radius for the neutron radiation is greater than for the blast, at least for tanks. It was intended to stop a Soviet tank invasion of Western Europe without blowing up all the towns in between, on friendly territory, hence the relatively low yield. It still would have done a lot of damage, but less than a higher yield weapon that relied solely on blast effects." In the T-building, during cleanup sometimes parts of floors had to be cut away because they were radioactive. Picture of workers in protective suits they wore. This worker is being scanned for radioactivity. The Faraday Cage I spoke about. Glove boxes, where workers could handle dangerous materials. Katherine Switzer Click to Download