Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
From chasing baseball dreams in Georgia to mastering the mental game that carried him to victory at the 2025 Javelina Jundred, Will Murray has taken one of the most unconventional paths in ultrarunning.
In this conversation, Will joins Finn Melanson on the Singletrack Podcast to unpack his evolution from a cycling-obsessed math teacher in rural New Jersey to one of America’s breakout 100-mile talents. He reflects on missing his college cross-country tryout by ten seconds, discovering the mental side of endurance sport, and learning how to “keep the signal” — a mantra that guided his patient, surgical win at Javelina.
Will also shares how his time teaching at Blair Academy taught him discipline and structure, why he sees ultrarunning as a skill sport rather than a pure test of fitness, and how creative training strategies — like 10-hour “bike-to-run” sessions — helped him develop the durability and mindset needed to compete with the sport’s best.
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* Gorewear - use code SINGLETRACKPOD30 at checkout on their website (bit.ly/3JVNIbL) to get 30% off your purchase.
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From chasing baseball dreams in Georgia to mastering the mental game that carried him to victory at the 2025 Javelina Jundred, Will Murray has taken one of the most unconventional paths in ultrarunning.
In this conversation, Will joins Finn Melanson on the Singletrack Podcast to unpack his evolution from a cycling-obsessed math teacher in rural New Jersey to one of America’s breakout 100-mile talents. He reflects on missing his college cross-country tryout by ten seconds, discovering the mental side of endurance sport, and learning how to “keep the signal” — a mantra that guided his patient, surgical win at Javelina.
Will also shares how his time teaching at Blair Academy taught him discipline and structure, why he sees ultrarunning as a skill sport rather than a pure test of fitness, and how creative training strategies — like 10-hour “bike-to-run” sessions — helped him develop the durability and mindset needed to compete with the sport’s best.
Partners:
* Norda - check out the 005: the lightest, fastest, most stable trail racing shoe ever made (nordarun.com/)
* deltaG Ketones - use code Singletrack20 at checkout on their website to get 20% off your next order
(partners.deltagketones.com/SINGLETRACK20)
* Raide - Making equipment for efficient human-powered movement in the mountains (raideresearch.com/)
* Gorewear - use code SINGLETRACKPOD30 at checkout on their website (bit.ly/3JVNIbL) to get 30% off your purchase.
* Naak - use code SINGLETRACK15 at checkout on their website (naak.com/) to get 15% off your purchase.
Follow Singletrack on Instagram:
instagram.com/runsingletrack
Subscribe to Singletrack on Apple:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/singletrack/id1572382413
Subscribe to Singletrack on Spotify:
open.spotify.com/show/7jAsWCRNSCU8nh81vrAaC2?si=3ac02e4e32b946c4
