The Ultra Crewed Podcast

Ultrarunning had itself a week.We start with Camille Herron, OnlyFans, accountability, athlete culture, and the increasingly blurry line between “empowerment” and just putting your ass on the internet for money.Then we finally behave ourselves and talk about actual ultrarunning.One of our coached athletes finishes the Georgia Jewel 100 on just three days of training per week—while still prioritizing his job, family, and real life. We break down why execution matters more than chasing mileage, why Georgia Jewel is nastier than it looks on paper, and why heat strategy can make or break your race.We get into carrying more water than you think you need, ice, cooling, hats, airflow, gear preferences, and the very scientific principle of not cooking yourself alive in the Georgia sun.Then it’s on to Last Soul Ultras, backyard racing, last-man-standing formats, preserving the roots of the sport without becoming the grumpy old people yelling from the porch, and whether the future eventually includes an eccentric billionaire making people run around an island until only one survives.Probably not.Hopefully not.This is the Ultra Crewed Podcast, so no promises.

Ultrarunning had itself a week.We start with Camille Herron, OnlyFans, accountability, athlete culture, and the increasingly blurry line between “empowerment” and just putting your ass on the internet for money.Then we finally behave ourselves and talk about actual ultrarunning.One of our coached athletes finishes the Georgia Jewel 100 on just three days of training per week—while still prioritizing his job, family, and real life. We break down why execution matters more than chasing mileage, why Georgia Jewel is nastier than it looks on paper, and why heat strategy can make or break your race.We get into carrying more water than you think you need, ice, cooling, hats, airflow, gear preferences, and the very scientific principle of not cooking yourself alive in the Georgia sun.Then it’s on to Last Soul Ultras, backyard racing, last-man-standing formats, preserving the roots of the sport without becoming the grumpy old people yelling from the porch, and whether the future eventually includes an eccentric billionaire making people run around an island until only one survives.Probably not.Hopefully not.This is the Ultra Crewed Podcast, so no promises.

I will link my PDF on this topic later today.If you're an athlete struggling with what feels like overtraining and complete exhaustion this is worh a listen or read.

Doing hard things doesn’t automatically make you better at life.This week on the Ultra Crewed Podcast, Jon and Becca recap the first Long Mile—a sunset-to-sunrise endurance experience built around movement, growth, community, and creating enough space for people to learn something about themselves without turning it into another race.That leads into a bigger conversation: Is running 100 miles actually harder than everyday life? Does voluntarily suffering teach you anything if you never stop to process it? And when does “I do hard things” stop being personal growth and start becoming ego?They also get into Barkley Fall Classic, trail-running culture, the difference between kindness and genuinely caring about people, missing the ultrarunning community, future adventure ideas, and why the hard things we choose are often much easier than the hard things life chooses for us.And then, because this is the Ultra Crewed Podcast, everything deteriorates appropriately.There’s an extended public service announcement about race-day bathroom etiquette, the revolutionary concept that your poop is your responsibility, some truly baffling endurance-sports behavior, Camille Herron internet developments, OnlyFans, hero worship, and several pieces of information Jon and Becca sincerely wish they had never learned.Somewhere underneath all of that nonsense is the point:There is room for growth in your life—and room in your life to grow.You just have to do more than suffer for it.

This week, we’re talking about everything from seasonal transitions, turkey encounters, questionable running apparel, and brutal summer heat to the bigger lessons ultra running keeps teaching us about adaptability, expectations, and community. We get into smarter hot-weather training, why unfamiliar trails and races can make you a better runner, and how learning to problem-solve matters just as much as stacking miles. We also dig into the changing culture of ultra running—social media, influencers, negativity, race expectations, and the difference between joining a community and expecting that community to change around you. As usual, there’s plenty of running talk, life talk, race-director frustration, and completely unnecessary discussion about Fresca, turkeys, and shirts with holes in them.