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2022 Ultra Trail Cape Town Preview | Analysis, Storylines, Predictions

Singletrack

Finn Melanson

Wilderness, Trail Running, Sports, Sports News, Mountain Running, Running, Ultrarunning, Ultra Running, News, Ultramarathon

5897 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2022

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Text us your thoughts about this episode or ideas for future episodes!In this episode, I am joined by Brett Hornig and Leah Yingling to preview the 2022 Ultra Trail Cape Town 100K. We analyze the course, talk about what it's going to take to be successful, note some of the interesting storylines around the event, and make our predictions for the female and male top-5 finishers this year.Timestamps:(0:30) - catching up with Leah and Brett on their recent performances at the 80K World Champions...

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0:00.0

Welcome back or welcome to the single track podcast. I'm your host, Finn Milanson, and in this episode,

0:07.0

I am joined by my frequent co-hosts Brett Hornig and Leah Yingling to preview the 2022

0:12.7

Ultra Trail Capetown 100K event. We analyze the course, we talk about what it's going to take to be

0:18.8

successful. We note some of the interesting storylines around the event, and we make our predictions for the female and male top five

0:26.6

finishers this year. Let's get right into it. Before we talk about Cape Town, the last time we were

0:32.5

all on the broadcast together, was it, it a havelina that it?

0:38.2

Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So a month ago. Brett, you had a great race there. You want to,

0:44.0

I mean, I know we did an entire episode on it, but you want to give like a one minute

0:46.7

quick recap about how it went and whether or not it was a breakthrough race for you.

0:51.8

I mean, it was 100% of breakthrough race. It was better than any scenario I played out in my head.

0:58.0

It was cool to see a different style of training that I did actually changed something.

1:06.0

I'm still not recovered.

1:08.0

My knee is kind of jacked up, but that's okay. Still get to talk about running.

1:15.0

So, yeah, that's where I'm at. Those are my life updates.

1:18.8

And Leah, you were just in Thailand, and we didn't do an episode yet. So maybe, yeah,

1:23.7

just talk about how the day went and how everything fared.

1:27.3

Well, I'll preface this with saying that it was a very long travel day or day, two days to get out there.

1:32.7

And lucky for me, I got to live stream the Havillina coverage on my 12-hour flight to South Korea.

1:38.9

So I got to watch a lot of Brett's race while he was doing that and text you back and forth then.

1:43.9

So yeah, I highly recommend that to anybody who has long flight, just plan it over some watch a lot of Brett's race while he was doing that and text you back and forth in.

1:48.2

So yeah, highly recommend that to anybody who has long flight, just plan it over some Havillina live coverage next time.

1:50.4

It's time well spent.

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