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The Story of How We Got Together, According to Our Wedding Officiant

We got married! After a week of wedding obligations, very little free time, and apparently sleeping about 10 hours a night, we’re back with a full wedding recap. We talk

Four Days Before the Wedding: Do You Know Your Husband?

With four days left before our wedding, Allison takes a very outdated test to determine whether she actually knows her future husband. The result: a respectable C+. From

Marriage Is How You Win the Flirting Game

This week, Allison and I recap the third annual Montana Meltdown, including what we learned from watching people run in circles for 24 hours, why a completely runnable co

180 Miles Unsupported: No Sleeping Pad, No Candy, Almost No Sleep

Allison is back from her longest unsupported adventure yet: roughly 180 miles from Meeks Bay near Lake Tahoe to Tuolumne Meadows. She carried all of her food and gear, r

Wonderland Trail: 93 miles on her first Solo Backpacking Trip

Allison Powell decided that her first solo backpacking trip would be the Wonderland Trail—a roughly 93-mile loop around Mount Rainier. As an experienced ultrarunner, thr

The No Soap Era

When Allison and I met, she didn’t own soap, shampoo, conditioner, a bed frame, enough underwear to make it through the week—or, apparently, pants. The strangest part is

Allison’s 170-Mile FKT, Homeschool Cheating, and Survival Cannibalism | Free Inside

Allison is officially attempting her first FKT: roughly 170 miles from Lake Tahoe to Yosemite, carrying everything she needs and hoping to finish in around 72 hours—witho

Questionable Ham, Bigfoot, and Our First Date

Jeff Garmire and Allison Powell return for another episode of Free Inside, the spinoff show where outdoor adventures quickly turn into conversations about Bigfoot, ghosts

Every Book at the Barkley Marathons. It Still Wasn’t Enough.

For three months, Jeff Garmire and Allison Powell were secretly training for the same nearly impossible Valentine’s Day plan: the Barkley Marathons. Neither of them coul

Athlete? Pilot? Spy?!

This week on Free Inside, we somehow go from coaching philosophy and running in two left shoes to an ultrarunning history quiz, terrible acting, our biggest pet peeves an

Raining Blobs, Rube Waddell & 200-Mile Hallucinations

What do a Hall of Fame baseball player who chased fire trucks, mysterious blobs falling from the sky, and a 200-mile ultramarathon hallucination have in common? Apparent

Would You Swim the English Channel?

What starts as a conversation about whether we'd ever run Badwater quickly turns into designing some of the most ridiculous endurance events imaginable. This week on Fre

How Did We End Up Talking About This? 250 miles on skis ... and drugs

One topic somehow became ten. We discuss world records, NASCAR, weird sports, celebrity shoe sponsors, bad haircuts, trail running, and one of the wildest survival storie

Free Inside: Same Cost, New Location

Welcome to the very first episode of Free Inside. This is our new weekly show where we sit down with no guests, no script, and no real agenda—just whatever we've been th