FACING VERT
By Tara Jordan
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Episodes: 83
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Welcome to Facing Vert...both on trails and in life. So, what is vert? For all of those in the trail running community, it is short for Vertical Elevation Gain. Basically, it is climbing a mountain, and we have all faced mountains in our lives. This 'vert' may be an upcoming race, or simply getting up the courage to start training for a 5k. Or, this mountain is an obstacle, a burden, a fear that you just want to claw your way up and conquer. These are conversations you will hear about, and I hope they will inspire you to do the impossible and face the impossible with greater hope.
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083: Catawba Falls 15K-Brandon Thrower
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Feb 07, 2026 |
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082: FKTs Are Better With Friends-Teresa Bowser & Nathan Frantz
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Jan 24, 2026 |
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081: 1st Overall At The Looking Glass 100K-Cameron Brown
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Jan 02, 2026 |
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080: My Looking Glass 100K Experience-Tara Jordan
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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079: No Business 100-Natasha Castro
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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078: Rim To River 100 Miler-Jen Kurtz
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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077: Looking Glass 100K Preview-Brandon Thrower
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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076: Conquering UTMB-Marisa Romeo
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Sep 27, 2025 |
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075: UTMB 100M-Katti Jackson
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Sep 13, 2025 |
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074: Creatine Study on Endurance Athletes-Dr. Jennifer Kurtz
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Aug 23, 2025 |
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073: Hardrock 100 Endurance Run-Michael Poole
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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072: Western States Endurance Run-Laura Rollins
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Jul 12, 2025 |
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071: Cocodona 250-Rob Berry
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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070: Hellbender 100 1st Place Female-Shannon Howell
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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069: Running For The Girl In the Cul-De-Sac-Raven Johnson
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May 25, 2025 |
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068: Gratitude-Miriam Salloum
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May 02, 2025 |
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067: Hellbender 100 New Course Reveal-Carrie Baris & Brandon Thrower
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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066: My Mount Mitchell Heartbreaker 50M Experience-Tara Jordan (yep, me)
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Mar 29, 2025 |
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065: Black Canyon 100k-Tim Nooney & Miller Groome
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Mar 15, 2025 |
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064: Mount Mitchell Heartbreaker 50 M & 55K-Brandon Thrower
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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063: The Fierce Dragon Firestarter 100-Teresa Bowser
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Feb 01, 2025 |
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062: Old Fort Strong 24-Hour Experience-Andrew Hall
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Jan 18, 2025 |
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061: Hanging Rock Challenge 50K & Half-Brandon Thrower
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Jan 05, 2025 |
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060: 1st Female at Grindstone 100-Katti Jackson
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Dec 14, 2024 |
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059: Old Fort Strong Endurance Festival-Brandon Thrower
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Nov 30, 2024 |
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058: Pisgah Area SORBA Executive Director-Natalie Narburgh
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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057: Resilience-Anne George
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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056: Finding Strength Through Community-Brandon Thrower
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Oct 19, 2024 |
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055: Leadville Trail 100 MTB-Steve Bennett
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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054: Table Rock Ultras-Brandon Thrower
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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053: UTMB's Lavaredo 120K-Marisa Romeo
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Aug 18, 2024 |
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052: Grand-Further Mountain Run-Brandon Thrower
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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051: Overcoming Injury & The Mozart 100-Tory Grieves
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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050: Pushing To The Edge-Nathan Frantz
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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049: Try To Do Things That Are Impossible-Marcus Welker
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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048: Ridge To Rails 50k, Half Marathon & 10k-Brandon Thrower
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May 30, 2024 |
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047: Sharing Miles On Feet & On Horseback-Carrie Baris
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May 23, 2024 |
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046: Releasing The Burden-Teresa Bowser
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May 10, 2024 |
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045: Hellbender 100-Brandon Thrower
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May 04, 2024 |
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044: MST 100 1st Overall Female-Ally Carlton
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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043: 7 Sisters 25K-Brandon Thrower
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Apr 06, 2024 |
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042: Mt. Mitchell Heartbreaker 55K-Me, Myself and I
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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041: Unstoppable-Tera Pruett
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Mar 16, 2024 |
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040: Mount Mitchell Heartbreaker 50M/55K-Brandon Thrower
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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039: Life Is A Gift-Rachel Blinn
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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038: Do Hard Things-Randy Elliott
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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037: Unquestionably, The Art Loeb Queen-Ally Carlton
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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036: The Humble Guru of Pisgah-Sheridan Byers
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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035: South Mountain Marathons-Brandon Thrower
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Dec 23, 2023 |
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034: Lessons Learned-Tim Nooney
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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033: 1st Place Female at Looking Glass 100K-Marisa Romeo
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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032: Learn To Love The Pain-Logan Anderson
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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031: Running In Memory of An Amazing Woman-Heath Ballard
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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030: Through The Storm At Grindstone 100-Jordan Tager
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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029: A Look Inside The Looking Glass 100K-Brandon Thrower
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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028: So Much More Than Muscle-Jordan & Brittany Hutchinson
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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027: How A Streak Made Her A Force-Ellie Johnston
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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026: Tuning Out the Negativity And Truly Believing-Laurel Awald
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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025: Monkeys Shouldn't Be Waving At Me-Sam Reed
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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024: The Mythical Creature-Adam Hill
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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023: Officially A 100-Mile Grand Slammer-Aaron Saft
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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022: I've Not Been Thrown Into Life Until Now-Heath Ballard
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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021: Run. Inspire. Conserve.-Brandon Thrower with Tanawha Adventures
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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020: 2nd Overall In The Leadville Trail 100 Run-Luke Paulson
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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019: Chasing the Challenge & The Coolest Awards-Aaron Saft
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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018: Burning All His Stoke and Finding it Again-Tim Nooney
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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017: Two-Time US Pro National Road Race Champion & World Tour Cyclist-Matthew Busche
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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016: The Talented Caudill Twins
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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015: Conquering The IRONMAN 70.3-Beth Hix
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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014: Stop for the Lunar Moth-Miller Groome
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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013: Don't Let Later Become Never-My Time with Marisa Romeo
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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012: Purple Heart Recipient & Endurance Athelete Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Kutilek of the United States Marine Corps
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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011: The Pacers' Perspective-Cruel Jewel 100
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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010: A Conversation With My Hero...My Daddy, Terry Tolle
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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009: When You Can No Longer Run-Tory Grieves & Sara Molskness
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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008: From Rage to Redemption-Jack Kitching
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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007: My Cruel Jewel 100 Experience
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May 25, 2023 |
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006: 2nd Overall in the Hellbender 100 Mile Race-Jonathan Ibach
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May 18, 2023 |
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005: A Conversation with Superwoman-Barbara Green
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May 11, 2023 |
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004: The Power Of Accountability
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May 04, 2023 |
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003: Mark and Laura Rollins - The King and Queen of Trail Running
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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002: My Hellbender 100 Experience
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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001: From Hating Running To Loving It, My Journey To Becoming An Ultrarunner
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Apr 20, 2023 |