Joe Goodkin and the Art of Running

Meet Joe Goodkin. Hailing from the U.S. Midwest, Joe is a musician and runner with a knack for repetition. Of his own music, Joe has performed his “Odyssey” — a 35-minute solo acoustic guitar and voice piece — over 500 times, earning him the title of a real (albeit modern) Homeric bard. Joe also recently ran his first trail 100-miler at the Tunnel Hill 100 Mile, and his evolution into ultrarunning parallels that of the “Odyssey” itself. With Christopher Nolan’s “Odyssey” hitting theaters, Joe has seen an uptick in interest in his version of the Greek epic. So for the oft-overlooked Midwest runners, meet Joe, and perhaps you’ll give his music a listen on your next run! When did you start playing music? And running? I started playing music at the age of six. I wanted to play the guitar, but my parents started me on piano so I could learn to read music and gain some basic musicality until my hands got big enough to play a full-sized guitar.

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