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James Stangle

James Stangle

Obstacle course racer and respiratory therapist from Chillicothe, Ohio; part of the Stangle family behind RunFluent Events, which puts on trail and ultra-running races in Florida and Ohio.

Sep 16, 2026

14:00
Do you like that aspect where you get to just kind of put in the sweat equity ahead of time?
14:05
Yeah.
14:05
I mean, it basically, everything with his run flow and started, we started, you know, our roots where we, you know, ran a lot at Great Seal and, um, you know, focused more on like the state parks, like Great Seal is a state park.
14:16
So you have those well-established trails, um, that you go out and like starting out there, it's easy for me to go out and we'd be, oh, there's a tree out there, you know, get ahold of somebody at that time that had a chainsaw and let's go cut this one tree out.
14:28
And then Chris mentioned something about Tar Hollow and all the trails and the possibilities.
14:33
And he, had me go out there just to kind of scout it out and just completely delusional and not having any idea what went into trail maintenance.
14:41
I went out there and ran it and for anybody that's ever been to Tar Hollow when it's not maintained, it's basically thorns and poison ivy and grass and weeds that's minimum of waist high and up above your head in many spots.

22 MINS LATER

36:29
What about you, James? Craziest weather you've run through?

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