A lighthearted conversation by trail, road, and ultra runners about their lives as runners and the issues that are interesting or important to them and guests of the show. TJM is meant to be a companion to you as you run. Think of us as your running partners on days when you just need some friends to get you out on an easy run. The show is composed of 10 segments, one for each mile, and every 10 minutes or so we move on to the next topic, to keep things interesting. Among the hosts' experience are ten 100-mile finishes, dozens of half and full marathons, plenty of 50-milers, and some speedy 5ks and a BQ (and a handful of DNFs). Scott Kummer is an attorney, doberman owner and quite possibly the most painstakingly average runner known to man. Scott has stumbled through numerous plus 4 and 5 hour marathons. He's DNF'ed the 150 mile, 100 mile, 50 mile and marathon distance. He was once kicked out of an ultra runing group due to allegations of cyber-bullying. He has a habit of offending people by accident while trying to help them. He is a co-founder of the Flatlander Ultrarunners in Chicagoland which has rapidly grown to over 600 members. He came up with the idea for Ten Junk Miles after becoming frustrated with hearing interview after interview of Scott Jurek and deciding that runners needed more: more discussions of bathroom breaks that went wrong, pacer stories from hell, DNF reports, stories of getting lost on the trail and other related matters. Cory Feign is the reluctant hipster sound man behind Ten Junk Miles. Cory picked up running several years ago after being fat shamed by his wife to run a marathon. He has made lack of preparation combined with improvisation plus musical inspiration a household name while making the Leadville 100 look easy. All this while wearing a shirt which some swear is tie dyed. After working with technology all day Cory loves nothing more than to spend hundreds of hours editing and finalizing TJM podcasts so that they can rise to the level of (just below) mediocrity for your consumption. Aid station DJ, anti-douche, banana connoisseur, hoppy beer lover, Cory is a little bit of everything with a smattering of nothing. Kat broke her single season record for "beers in one year" while winning the Leadville International Beer Mile. This former sprinter/track coach found a new love for running when she decided to slow things down. She's completed two extreme eating marathons, one Krispy Kreme Challenge and a Beer Mile....and she's just getting started. She steals clothes from small children while running 100 mile races, and finishing them with a smile. She'll cry at the drop of a hat at anything other than the pain of running. there has never been a foot picture that has grossed her out. She "accidentally" won the McNotagain 30 miler last year. But she'd rather just move at a nice pace and chat because (unlike the rest of these bozos) she's about the nicest person you'll ever meet on the trail. Aaron German is a speedster, plain and simple. He's the only one in the group that has ever cracked the three hour marathon barrier and the only one brave enough to wear mandex in public. He's a Kansas City native and University of Chicago grad that found out by accident that losing tons of weight can make you run faster. Aaron trades stocks and fantasy baseball players while juggling the lack of commitments that comes with having no wife, no kids and no real job. In short, Aaron has nothing better to do than run long and fast and think about funny things to say. More at http://www.tenjunkmiles.com