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 preview the 2023 Black Canyon 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, make our predictions for the female and male top five finishers this year, and in a new segment at the end of the episode, address some listener comments, questions, and hot takes around this event.

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Oh, man.

Wow, that just blew my mind.

Yeah, okay.

I am here with frequent collaborators, friends, co-conspirators,

Brett Hornigan, Lee, Yingling.

This is the 2023 Black Canyon 100K preview analysis, hype predictions episode.

I was just informed by Brett that what I was going to call the index is actually the table of

contents for this episode.

I think we're going to talk first about what's exciting us about this race, the stature

of this race within the Golden Ticket Series, the greater U.S. Ultrasine, obviously course knowledge and analysis.

We're doing a new segment where we're actually reading out listener questions that we crowdsourced

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