Big Alta recap, knowing your place, and evolving your "why"

About this episode

The episode recaps The Big Alta weekend and discusses coaching insights and personal reflections on ultra running.

The gang is back! We touch base on The Big Alta weekend including some athlete performances as well as Adam's 100k takeaways (it's not a play by play ultra recap, we promise), which takes us off on more than a few coaching tangents. A real classic episode!

People in this episode

Host: Adam Ferdinandson

Topics covered

• Big Alta recap
• athlete performances
• coaching
• evolving your why
• ultra running

Keywords

• Big Alta
• 100k
• coaching
• athlete performance
• ultra running

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