2023 Western States 100 | Men's Field Preview

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Finn Melanson

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

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🗓️ 21 June 2023

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Brett Hornig returns to the podcast to provide an in-depth preview of the 2023 Western States 100. 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 yes, make our predictions for the male top 10 finishers this year. Sponsors: Rabbit - use code Singletrack20 at checkout on their website (https://www.runinrabbit.com/discount/SINGLETRACK20) to get 20% off your next orderFeetures - use code Singletrack20 at c...

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0:00.0	Welcome back or welcome to the Single Track Podcast.
0:03.0	I'm your host, Finn Melanson, and in this episode, I'm joined by my colleague, Brett Horning, to preview the 2023 Western States 100 Men's Field.
0:11.0	Before we get started, though, this episode is brought to you by Hoka, Rabbit, Morton, and Features.
0:17.0	Head to the show notes page of this episode for new product releases and discount codes from each of our four sponsors.
0:23.1	With that, let's get started.
0:26.7	Hello, really demand.
0:29.7	Cheers.
0:30.1	Oh, you don't know if you're drinking from why it's empty.
0:33.8	We are live.
0:35.3	This is the 2023 Western States 100 men's field preview.
0:40.1	We will be doing the women's field preview tomorrow night, Wednesday evening, same time.
0:45.2	Brett, I am unironically wearing a puffy jacket right now because it is freezing here in Olympic Valley.
0:52.2	Yes, and even though we're not paying for the utilities, we still don't have the heat on.
0:57.0	Today was cold, you know, it was maybe 50 degrees up here.
1:02.0	And even on our run this morning, I actually remember going over a little piece of dirt that had some water on it and it was frozen.
1:16.4	Indicative of what we can expect Saturday, right?
1:17.5	Should we talk about the weather first?
1:21.3	Maybe we can talk about the weather in a way that it'll, you know,
1:23.2	it'll roll into tomorrow's episode too.
1:26.0	Oh, the weather outside is weather.
1:31.2	How many Modellos did you have?
1:32.0	One.
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