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Podcast: For The Long Run: Exploring the Why Behind Running
Episode: 21. Matt Daniels: From Sub-4 Miler to Western States 100
Description: This week’s guest is Matt Daniels.
Matt is a trail and ultra runner, as well as a coach. Matt has run a sub 4 minute mile, and this summer he’s taking on the hundred mile distance for the first time, after coming from a track and short distance background. Talk about range!
Matt spent three years stationed in Japan with the US Navy. After that, he returned Stateside to run for a DII running powerhouse where he truly sharpened his speed and ran that sub 4 minute mile.
Over the next few years, he foun...