The MidPacker Pod is part of the Freetrail network of Podcasts. You can now support the MidPacker Pod on Patreon. Make sure you leave us a rating and review wherever you get your pods. Want to leave Troy some feedback, recommend a guest, or make a suggestion? LINK HERE In this episode, Troy Meadows talks with Zach Friedley.  Zach is an advocate, race director, trail runner, and Adaptive athlete running for On. The conversation starts out with Troy telling the serendipitous story of how...

The MidPacker Pod is part of the Freetrail network of Podcasts. You can now support the MidPacker Pod on Patreon. Make sure you leave us a rating and review wherever you get your pods. Today on the show Troy Meadows is talking with Kyla Maher. Kyla is a community organizer, and trail and ultra runner based in Bozeman Montana.  She is also a content producer and the athlete manager for Janji the up-and-coming running apparel brand that in Kyla’s words is a pocket company that also makes...

The MidPacker Pod is part of the Freetrail network of Podcasts. You can now support the MidPacker Pod on Patreon. Make sure you leave us a rating and review wherever you get your pods. Today on the pod Troy Meadows talks with Aum Gandhi. Aum is an entrepreneur, trail, and ultra runner based in Los Angeles.  He is a partner and owner at Run Tri Bike the online site dedicated to sharing the voice of the everyday athlete and we discuss his journey from feeling trapped in a job he hated to...

The MidPacker Pod is part of the Freetrail network of Podcasts. You can now support the MidPacker Pod on Patreon. Make sure you leave us a rating and review wherever you get your pods. Today on the Pod Troy Meadows brings you a conversation with Shelby Farrell. Shelby is a marketer, cat mom, trail runner, and ultra runner who last year took the plunge, quit her job at Coros, bought a van and with her partner Jason started living the van life with the goal of setting a new FKT on the...

The MidPacker Pod is part of the Freetrail network of Podcasts. You can now support the MidPacker Pod on Patreon. Make sure you leave us a rating and review wherever you get your pods. The stoke is high today as Troy Meadows brings you a conversation with Travis Loncar. Travis is a trail and ultra runner, computer programmer, and the brains behind Freetrail Fantasy the platform that allows you to pick your top finishers for some of the best trail and ultra races for great prize packages....

The MidPacker Pod is part of the Freetrail network of Podcasts. You can now support the MidPacker Pod on Patreon. Make sure you leave us a rating and review wherever you get your pods. Today on the pod Troy Meadows brings you a conversation with Callie Vinson.  Callie is a body image advocate, trail runner, ultra runner, and creative director for a large ad agency who balances living the “Mad Men” vocational life with her love of running and the trails. In today's show, they touch on...

The MidPacker Pod is part of the Freetrail network of Podcasts. You can now support the MidPacker Pod on Patreon.Make sure you leave us a rating and review wherever you get your pods. Today on the Midpacker Pod Troy Meadow talks with Hillary Li and Celeste Banks.  These ladies are trail runners and ultra runners who are passionate about creating diversity and inclusion on the trails. They recently took over the leadership roles at the Trail Sisters Boston Chapter and are eager to share...

The MidPacker Pod is part of the Freetrail network of Podcasts. You can now support the MidPacker Pod on Patreon. Make sure you leave us a rating and review wherever you get your pods. Today on the pod Troy Meadows talks with Tim Lock. They focus a lot of the conversation on sustainability and practical ways to minimize your carbon footprint.  Tim is an architect and partner at a firm called OPAL where their focus is on sustainable building design. Tim is a subject matter expert in...

The MidPacker Pod is part of the Freetrail network of Podcasts. You can now support the MidPacker Pod on Patreon. Make sure you leave us a rating and review wherever you get your pods. Today on the show Troy Meadows talks with Michael Loeffler. Michael is a father, husband, psychotherapist, and trail and ultra runner. They tease out some actionable tips that Micheal has for fellow trail runners looking to find balance with and have clear communications and expectations with the people...

The MidPacker Pod is Presented by Freetrail. You can now support the MidPacker Pod on Patreon. Today, Troy Meadows talks with Matt Chittim. Matt should need no introduction as the host of the Rambling Runner Podcast and one of the founders and co-creatives at Relay. He is also a masters runner and father and recently started dabbling on the trails. They talk about several topics, including how Rambling Runner came to be, the new updates to the Boston Marathon qualifying standard, Matt...

The MidPacker Pod is Brought to you by Freetrail. You can now support the MidPacker Pod on Patreon. Today we are flipping the script on you and the mics are getting turned on the host Troy Meadows! We are stoked to have Freetrailers MVD and Corinne Shalvoy host the pod to ask me about my latest 100 mile effort at the Grindstone Trail Running Festival By UTMB. They talk briefly about Troy's running background, some of his training this year and dive into how his 33 hour experience on the...

The MidPacker Pod is Brought to you by Freetrail. You can now support the MidPacker Pod on Patreon. Today on the Pod, Troy Meadows sits down to talk with Matt Feldhake. Matt is a father, husband, marketer, and trail runner.   Matt is the Marketing Director at Aravaipa Running and has played a pivotal role in bringing us the amazing live stream coverage that we have all come to love from Jamil and Crew. We geeked out a lot on Marketing but also talked about Matt's running and his next...

​​The MidPacker pod is brought to you by FreeTrail with generous support from Vacation Races.  Today on the Pod, Troy Meadows talks to his dear friend Heidi Garner. Heidi is a mother, community organizer, artist, entrepreneur, and Trail and UltraRunner. They talk about how Heidi has found balance in raising several children with her running goals. How she has used her passion for endurance sports to give back to her local community as a board member of the youth swim league that her children...

Today on the Pod, Troy Meadows talks with Eugene Day.  Eugene is a Data Science and Discrete Event Simulation Director at Seattle Children's Hospital who loves Trail and Ultrarunning, dabbles in poetry and is always striving to be a better leader. They discuss several topics, including Eugene's Sobriety and how he decided to stop drinking. His love of poetry, he actually recites a poem he wrote in the show about his relationship as a mid-to-back of the pack runner and the crazy fast...

The MidPacker pod is brought to you by FreeTrail with generous support from Vacation Races.  Today on the pod Troy Meadows sits down with Jessica Grinspan.  Jessica is a public health researcher, trail runner, and ultrarunner from Philadelphia, PA, with a passion for aligning running pursuits with social advocacy. She is also a vibrant member of the FreeTrail community and an active member of the mental health channel in the FreeTrail Pro Slack community.   In today's episode, they...

In this episode of the MidPacker pod brought you by FreeTrail, with generous support from Vacation Races, Troy Meadows has a discussion with Ari Sonnenberg.   Ari has a mindset that is very powerful, and through reckoning with a lot of trauma in his life, more than anyone should have to bear, he has managed to cultivate a thoughtful approach to mindfulness and a zeal for living with a no-nonsense attitude that only a Boy from Brooklyn can have.  We dive into Ari's upbringing, his 16-year...

This episode of the MidPacker pod is brought you by FreeTrail, with generous support from Vacation Races, With all the UTMB festivities right around the corner, the stoke is super high to have this week's guest on the pod. In this Episode Troy Meadows talking with dear friends Mat Glaser and Maureen Cane. A year ago, Mat took a sabbatical from his job as a Teacher in Berkley, and together, he and Maureen moved their family of 4 to a sleepy village outside of Chamonix, France, to explore...

In this episode of the MidPacker pod brought you by FreeTrail, with generous support from Vacation Races, Troy Meadows talks with Vivian Chen about acting locally while thinking globally when it comes to empowering the BIPOC community to embrace the trails. Vivian is a clinical pharmacist, trail runner, and community organizer.  She is very passionate about inclusion in trail running and we dive deep into a few topics including the treatment of a group of BIPOC spectators at this year's...

In this episode of the MidPacker pod brought you by FreeTrail, with generous support from Vacation Races, Troy Meadows talks with Melissa Sorenson about finding the trails, parenthood, and the backyard ultra format.  Melissa is an ultrarunner, educator, and mother of soon to be 3. Having just recently found out that she is pregnant with her 3rd child. In this episode, we talk about how Melissa and her Husband got into trail running from road marathons and the challenges of running races with...

In this episode of the MidPacker pod brought you by FreeTrail Troy Meadows talks with Travis Weller about his art and how Travis has aligned with brands in the running space merge his passions with his vocation. Travis is an artist, father, trail runner, and ultrarunner whose work with brands like the North Face and Roark has crafted a life that aligns his creative pursuits and his love of the trails. His limited run with the NorthFace Vectiv launch back in 2021 put Travis on the map with...

In this episode of the MidPacker Pod, Troy Meadows talks with Jessica Vandenbush, a content creator, trail and ultrarunner, and all-around fun person.  This was an enjoyable conversation centered around some of the unique things Jessica has done around building community and creating content in the running world and how she approaches balance in her life while finding time to pursue her passions.    From creating the speed dating 5k to running the Jerome Aid Station at the inaugural...

In this episode, Troy Meadows sits down with Doug Mayer to talk about his new book: The Race That Changed Running The Inside Story of UTMB.  Doug is a journalist who has written content for Trail Runner Magazine, Ultra Runner Magazine, and Ultra Sign Up. In his former life Doug was a PRoducer on the NPR show Car Talks. He is also the founder of Run the Alps, a trail running guide service based in Chamonix, France, the place where Doug calls home. His location in France and a cultivated...

In this episode, Troy Meadows sits down with Corinne Shalvoy to talk all things trail running. Corinne is a mother, a wife, and a very fast lady running on team Aravaipa. From running her first Marathon with her husband in over 5 hours many years ago to running sub 3 hours, taking 1st place, and setting a massive PR at the Tucson Marathon last year, Corrine is an amazing ambassador for the community.  We also discuss a lot about her family history with trail running and ultra running,...

Matthew Hoadley is a trail runner and ultra runner based in Massachusetts. He is a recovering alcoholic, community organizer, and race director for the Womp Romp 50k and 10 miler. He is also a big part of the Freetrail Community helping to facilitate the Mental Health Office hours, a subgroup within Freetrail. He has also written a piece published by  Freetrail titled “We get to do this'' on his struggles with addiction and how running and meditation has helped to change his relationship with...