Backpacker Radio20 Mar 2019

#32 | Peter Downing on Ultra Running, the Peace Corps, and Suffer Better

In today's episode of Backpacker Radio, we're joined by Peter Downing, a modern day renaissance man. We chat about his history as an ultra runner (including his four wins at the Buena Vista 50), his time in the Peace Corps, his career as a lawyer, and now, his latest undertaking, Suffer Better, a community of ultra runners whose mission is to give back. It's a fun, freewheeling convo where Peter teaches us the ins and outs of the ultra world.

We touch on what it's like to have cold feet before a thru-hike and we get into a lewd edition of Would You Rather.

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Chaunce is on the AT, but she isn't, but she is (but she isn't).
Zach kicked in a window. Altra Lone Peaks are not glass proof.
Hoka One One trail runners (started from the former Salomon employers)
Ultimate Direction running vests
Chaunce gets covered in poo (again)
The life of a law student
Suffer Better
Second Thoughts and Pre-Hike Blues by Christy Fairlie
Would You Rather
5-star iTunes Reviews
Danny Devito
Song: Walking Slow by Animal Years

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