Welcome back or welcome to the single track podcast.

This episode bundles all of the pre-race interviews we did for the men's field at the 2022 Speedgoat 50K by UTMB,

taking place this coming Saturday, July 23rd at Snowbird Ski Resort outside of my hometown, Salt Lake City, Utah.

We talked with David Sinclair, Jackson Cole, Adam Loomis, Joey DeFaio, and Morgan

Elliott in this series.

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With that, let's get started.

David Sinclair, welcome to the single track podcast.

Thanks for having me on.

Pleasure.

This is our first time meeting, so I got to ask a couple pretty basic background questions.

It looks like you cut your teeth on the East Coast Nordic skiing scene.

Can you talk about that and maybe how that has contributed to what we'll ultimately get into,

which is a lot of the success you've had in mountain ultra-trail running?

Yeah, of course, I grew up in Vermont as a Nordic skier, so I was starting in high school

training full-time for Nordic and, you know, running,

Adrienne Cross Country is cross training. But all through college, went to school in New Hampshire,

Dartmouth College, and we would always run our long runs every Sunday on the Appalachian Trail.

So we'd do somewhere between, you know, 10 and 18

miles on some of the gnarliest single track there is on the East Coast. So that kind of wet my

appetite for a trail running. You know, we'd get pretty competitive and try to drop the other

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