Andy Wacker

Um, the next US championships that we will have are the Moab Half Marathon Trail Championships, which is where it's been the last couple of years.

Um, and that is honestly, like, a super competitive US Trail Championship every year, 'cause Andy Wacker puts a lot of effort into, like, bringing the entire trail team out.

Yeah.

No, it's gonna be a fun one.

The trail team in high school? Yeah.

No, no. Andy Wacker's group.

It just started out and it was just a bunch of people who like kind of knew each other and were training under the same like goals.

And so I think I just went there because everyone was doing it that year too.

for sure, for sure.

another guy in the boulder area is andy wacker and he very recently notably departed solomon in in a similar way i would say it said have you guys have you guys connected have you guys talked over that like or do you are you close with andy in that way because i just find it like a very similar situation and both of you are doing such incredible things for your running community that i i just i think it's such a positive thing to show that like you know, I think the normies get so caught up in like sponsorship, sponsorship, sponsorship, but like, there's so much like 99.9% of good runners, like in the sport, like aren't even sponsored.

Like, it's just, you know, it's not really, you get it, but like, you know what I'm saying? Like, have you and Andy connected in like how you both put like a lot forward for the community?

Yeah, definitely.

Boulder Boulder is a, is a very cutthroat elite field to make as well as they do the international challenge where they bring teams of three from different countries around to race against usually two or three team USA teams that they've put together, uh, And depending on the year, they put together a third special Team USA team that is comprised of all CU alumni.

And so that was how I got the opportunity alongside Connor Winter and Andy Wacker, who are both buffs themselves and both absolutely killing it right now in their own regards.

Yeah, generations of buffs on one team.

It was a lot of fun.