Joy is...Your Own Speed.
James Poole is a North Face Explorer Team ultra runner and all round enthusiast for the outdoors, who have been a long-time voice for connection and inclusivity within the running community. He has run some of the most prestigious ultra-races around the world, including the iconic Western States and UTMB, as well as epic adventures such as an unsupported, 430km journey across the Gobi Desert. He holds the fastest known time for crossing the Balearic island of Mallorca on the GR221 and has just returned from a second solo, self-supported attempt to run 340 miles from Santa Monica to Las Vegas as part of The Speed Project. Historically a relay, TSP lives and dies by the motto: No Rules, No Spectators, and, in 2021, offered the chance for individual runners to make the crossing from LA to Sin City, surviving the blazing heat of Death Valley to finish at the famous Welcome to Vegas sign.
James leans into a conversation with the same open curiosity as he approaches his running: he is on the journey with you and happy to enjoy the flow, without expectation or agenda. We explored meeting each other and ourselves in the common language of movement and how enlightenment is not a place we arrive at but the person we accept along the way.
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