The Human Potential Running Series Podcast · John Lacroix

HPRS Podcast - Episode 61: It's the Journey, Not the Destination

·1 hr 34 min·5 clips

One pill took him from “brain fog” to doing more work in four hours than four months.

1. The Human Potential Running Series Podcast episode 61 centers on Silverheels, ADHD treatment, and the state of trail racing. 2. John LaCroix is the host, HPRS owner, and race director, and Tommy Stott is the co-host who reacts to the permit and mental-health stories. 3. The episode asks what changes when a race, a brain, and a community all have to adapt at the same time. 4. John says he was diagnosed with ADD at age 12 and later seeks ADHD screening after a spell of severe brain fog. 5. He describes taking a pill, then crying after realizing he had done more work in four hours than in four months. 6. The intake appointment lasts about three and a half hours and forces him to revisit trauma, emotions, and relationship patterns. 7. Tommy says John “wear[s] your emotions like outwards,” and the two compare that with bottling anger up. 8. John gives an example from WWE SmackDown, where he cried after a women’s championship win because he knew the athlete’s grind. 9. The discussion moves to self-improvement, with John saying he wants better focus for writing a book and for his other work. 10. John and Tommy then talk about switching habits, using an athlete moving from lane three to lane six as an example. 11. John says that after warm-ups and drills, he ran 30 minutes of games with his team, including spinning baton relays and Sharks and Minnows. 12. He says the games helped reset the group’s energy during a “heavy week” for the athletes. 13. The permit story begins when John explains that the U.S. Forest Service granted Silverheels a five-year priority permit. 14. He says priority permits can last three, five, or 10 years, but they usually require a two-to-three-year year-to-year process first. 15. John notes that Silverheels was previously in one ranger district, but the redesign now crosses three ranger districts in two national forests. 16. He says the Dillon Ranger District took 10 years to approve last year’s permit, and that district had not issued a new permit in about 15 years. 17. John credits seven years of advocacy work with Colorado Parks and Wildlife and the Forest Service for trail and conservation efforts. 18. He says the new course includes a mandatory quiet zone at the Georgia Pass aid station because music and cowbells disturb bighorn sheep and mountain goats. 19. The tone is conversational, technical, and reflective, with Tommy pushing for clarification while John answers in long, detailed explanations. 20. People who follow trail permitting, race directing, or ADHD treatment will get the most from this episode. 21. People looking for a short, purely recreational running chat may skip it.

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