Welcome back or welcome to the Single Track podcast.

I'm your host, Finn Melanson, and Western States Week is finally here to go wicked in depth into everything about this race.

I call in frequent co-host, Brett Hornick, to analyze the course, to talk about what it's going to take to be successful, what to watch out for, before we get

into the usual banter of interesting storylines in our picks for female and male top tens this

year. One last thing before we get started, you have probably heard me talk to no end about

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All right, Brett Hornick, we are back with the Western States 100 preview episode. How's it going?

Oh man, it's finally here. First off, before we start, the little countdown to starting the recording.

It always reminds me of Wayne's World when they're getting in with the big crews for the very first time.

They're like, five, four.

You're nodding your heads.

Stop counting.

That's how I feel every time.

That may have been a deep cut reference.

I'm not exactly sure the demographics of our audience.

I know that a lot of folks are in that 25 to 35 age range, though.

I think it's going to land. It'll land. Okay, cool. I sure hope so. If not, I'm going to lose faith in humanity.

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