Matt Urbanski from Team RunRun returns to Singletrack to chat about Rock Candy Running’s LBA races in Olympia, Washington. We discuss about the ins and outs of race directing and why I love being a race director.

After a rather long break from racing ultras I am back and in this episode I’m in the hot seat with my coach Matt Urbanski from Team Run Run checking in after my brutal, but glorious DNF at Rainshadow Running’s Orcas 100 Miler last weekend.

Matt Urbanski is back on Singletrack and he’s calling in from freakin’ Chamonix. Jealous! Matt just ran the Hardrock 100 and is here to share what it means to toe this extraordinary start line for the first time and run alongside the legends of our sport around this mighty mountains in the San Juans in Colorado. We chat about what makes a race so remarkable that people want to sign up for it year after year, and of course, I had to ask Matt a bit about the atmosphere in Chamonix in these last few weeks before the biggest event in trail and mountain runnings.

World traveller and running coach Matt Urbanski joins Singletrack this week. He’s the co-founder of Team Run Run the popular online marketplace for running coaches. I asked him to try to convince me that I should get myself a running coach for this upcoming year of running. Will he succeeded?