Ten Junk Miles

Updated: 20 Jan 2025 • 815 episodes
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A lighthearted conversation by runners about their lives as runners and the issues that are interesting or important to them and guests of the show. TJM is meant to be a companion to you as you run. Think of us as your running partners on days when you just need some friends to get you out on an easy run. The show is composed of 10 segments, one for each mile, and every 10 minutes or so we move on to the next topic, to keep things interesting. Among the hosts' experience are ten 100-mile finishes, dozens of half and full marathons, plenty of 50-milers, and some speedy 5ks and a BQ (and a handful of DNFs). Your host, Scotty Kummer is an attorney, doberman owner and quite possibly the most painstakingly average runner known to man. Scott has stumbled through numerous plus 4 and 5 hour marathons. He's DNF'ed the 150 mile, 100 mile, 50 mile and marathon distance. Okay, and he is a member of the Order of the Hrimthurs for having completed the Arrowhead 135, the Tuscobia 160 and the Actif Epica 120K in the same calendar year (more people have walked on the moon) as well as finshed 50+ ultramarathons including several 100 mile races. He was once kicked out of an ultra runing group due to allegations of cyber-bullying. He has a habit of offending people by accident while trying to help them. He is a co-founder of the Flatlander Ultrarunners in Chicagoland which has rapidly grown to over 2000 members. He came up with the idea for Ten Junk Miles after becoming frustrated with hearing interview after interview of Scott Jurek and deciding that runners needed more: more discussions of bathroom breaks that went wrong, pacer stories from hell, DNF reports, stories of getting lost on the trail and other related matters. More at http://www.tenjunkmiles.com

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Meet Nation Member Jason Rupe #RunTJM Weekly Strava Champtions: Most Miles: Run Coach KKK Pairity Path Endurance 180.4 miles Most Time Running: Run Coach KKK Pairity Path Endurance 37:55:24 Most Vert: Justin Young 28,176 feet. Sign up for the races here: https://www.tenjunkmilesracing.com   Join the Official Podcast Gr

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Run Ten Junk Miles with Scotty, Melissa "Kind of a Big Deal" Kaiser, Oscar Delgado and Andrew Robot Dinosaur in which they talk about the year ahead, flasks, are races too expensive? Travelling, Strava Shout Outs, Packages and much much more!! This episode also brought to you by UCAN Use the code TENJUNKMILES for 20% o

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Meet Nation Member Emmett Rahl #RunTJM Emmett's Blog!  https://ultratallultrarunner.wordpress.com Weekly Strava Champtions: Most Miles: Barry Thrune 122.6 miles Most Time Running: Matt Condron - 31:47:38 Most Vert: Michael Whiteside - 18,478 feet. Sign up for the races here: https://www.tenjunkmilesracing.com   Join th

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Revisit Scotty's Long Run with the GOAT of all things running, Ann Trason. We realize some of you haven't heard all 810 episodes.  So this week we are bringing back an old one. Sign up for the races here: https://www.tenjunkmilesracing.com   Support the show via Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/tenjunkmiles   Webs

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Meet Nation Member Jared Coates #RunTJM Weekly Strava Champtions: Most Miles: Max Grimsley - 191.8 miles Most Time Running: Max Grimsley - 53:19:26 Most Vert: MDL Ramos - 20,633 feet. Sign up for the races here: https://www.tenjunkmilesracing.com   Join the Official Podcast Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/105752

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Join Scotty, Kerri, Adam, Angie and Lauren for Ten Junk Miles in which we discuss the end of the year and start of the new one.  Resolutions, reflections, plans for the upcoming year.  Changes.  And much much more.  Happy New Year from all of us to all of you. Sign up for the races here: https://www.tenjunkmilesracing.

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