Trail running is growing, but who gets to feel like they belong? Vivek Gowri, owner of San Francisco Running Company, believes the future of the sport depends on more people being able to see themselves in it. And he's using a running store to do something about it.
Presented by Kiprun.
Vivek works at NVIDIA and owns one of the Bay Area's most beloved running stores. We talk about why he bought a business he already loved, what Ben Dhiman's historic UTMB victory meant to him as an Indian runner, and how a women's trail race with a $25,000 prize purse reflects his ambitions for the sport. Underneath it all is a question about what we're responsible for when we love something enough to want to change it.
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Topics / Timestamps- 00:00 Why representation matters01:39 Buying San Francisco Running Company09:29 Who belongs in trail running?20:02 Building a business around community22:03 Rethinking women's trail racing28:26 What trail running needs to change33:45 What must never change
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- Salt Lake Foothills Trail Races Borderlands.cc
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