Welcome back or welcome to the Single Track podcast.

I'm your host Finn Melanson and in this episode I am joined by Brett Hornig and Leah Yingling

to recap some of our favorite storylines, moments, and trends from 2022 in the sport of Mountain Ultra Trail Running.

We also analyze our Ultra Runner of the year picks and conclude with some predictions

for all things, 2023 as well. Before we get started, this episode is brought to you by gnarly

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With that, let's get started.

I think this is going to be my favorite episode of 2022.

It's our end of the year favorite storylines, year and review,

Ultra Runner of the Year, Trail Runner of the Year analysis storylines year and review ultra runner of the year trail runner of the year analysis i'm joined by frequent co-hosts brett hornig and lea yingling um lea before we hit record

we and we had like a 30 minute pre-record here which i wish we had gotten on on the record but that's

okay uh no you said uh, we probably can't.

But you said we should talk about the highlight of our years before we dive into all this

stuff.

So for you, what was it?

Because on paper, you had one of the best years of anybody in our sport, I would say. Oh, why did you have to start

with me? Yeah, I think I can't not say Western states. I think just getting to there and

experiencing that in its entirety. I mean, sharing miles with Brett, that had to have been the

highlight. So yeah, it was the whole experience itself was just a complete highlight for me.

And I think especially the journey of getting there.

So racing into that with a couple of golden ticket attempts was pretty special.

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