This is Trail Running Without Mountains.

What happens to trail running when you remove the thing that defines it?In the Midwest, trail runners face a question the West Coast never has to ask: Am I still a trail runner if I haven't touched singletrack in months?

There are no 14ers. No postcard trailheads 20 minutes from your door. Just cornfields, strip malls, and the quiet desperation of people who will drive an hour for 200 feet of vert and mean it.

This episode was recorded on a drive through Ohio towards Harvey Lewis's house, and it became something I didn't expect: a defense of trail running in the places the sport forgot.We talk about why community and logistics matter more than beauty, what Midwest races understand that destination events never will, and how growing up in Lubbock taught me that desperation is its own kind of fuel.

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