106. Western States 100 Preview and Picks!
Some Work, All Play
David Roche and Megan Roche
4.8 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2022
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
We dodged an angry moose before dedicating almost the whole episode to one of our favorite events of the year: The Western States 100! Whether you care about this race or not, we hope to convey big enthusiasm, bigger science, and even bigger subjective opinions. It was so much fun to break down wild ultra science on how physiology responds to this race, the unique demands of the course, 2022 sub-plots, and who we are picking for top finishes. We are SO EXCITED for the Super Bowl of US ultra running! Plus, we gave some happy pregnancy updates!
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| 0:00.0 | Woohoo! Welcome to the Thumb-Work all-play podcast. We are so happy to be with you today. |
| 0:04.8 | It's Tuesday. Tuesday! I feel unreal giddy on this Tuesday. Bring in like the Tuesday vibes. |
| 0:10.4 | I'm not like any other Tuesday, actually. Because you are alive, Megan. Tell our listeners what |
| 0:16.4 | happened this weekend because it was one of the coolest stories I've ever heard. I don't know if |
| 0:20.6 | I would start with cool. I would say maybe like bonkers, horrifying, weird, all like mixed into one |
| 0:26.4 | weird stew. That was how I would describe it. But I'm alive. It feels so. You have to say it |
| 0:31.2 | that way. Like that's how it feels. I've been like rocking this energy all weekend and now into |
| 0:35.6 | the week and it's just rolling. Yeah, you've had some major sound of music energy where your |
| 0:40.0 | arms are out and you're in the meadow. Basically everything we're doing. It's pretty remarkable. |
| 0:44.8 | Like just feel the wind on my skin. Feel the drip of sweat. I'm like feeling everything to the T |
| 0:49.9 | and it's a little weird. I'm just like tripping on the wind right now and it's great. |
| 0:54.1 | Just tripping on the wind. That needs to be a new swap shirt. Okay, so what happened on Saturday? |
| 0:59.3 | Okay, so we went hiking on Saturday. Actually, I went hiking and you sent a long run. It was really |
| 1:03.7 | cool. I was excited to see you go out for this long run. We were outside Jamstown, which is here in |
| 1:08.2 | Boulder. It's like a half hour away. It's kind of a remote area. I think we've seen very, very |
| 1:12.7 | few people. We've probably done this like 20 or 30 times. Almost seen no one out there the entire |
| 1:17.0 | time. Yeah, it's pretty damn empty. It's one of our secret spots. No one go there. Actually, |
| 1:21.2 | no swap. Swap listeners can go there, but no one else go there. Yeah, it's a special spot, but |
| 1:25.4 | so was hiking about a mile and a half into the hike at eight and I are just like meandering along. |
| 1:30.4 | We were hiking pretty slow. Yeah, and all of a sudden I see this moose come flying downhill like |
| 1:37.0 | absolutely rolling 30 miles an hour towards my camera on a torrent and it just absolutely |
| 1:42.0 | surprised me. Yeah. And the moose is being chased by Husky, which weird and it took me like I wasn't |
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