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

I'm joined by Red Hornig to recap the 2023 Western States 100. We talk about the live coverage,

major takeaways, top athlete performances, the possible futures of the event, and we respond to

some listener takes. Before we get started

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With that, let's get started. We're back in studio. This is Finn Melanson. I'm joined by colleague

Brett Hornig to recap both the race and our experience at the Western

States 100 and Brett I think this episode is going to be pretty free form I have listed down

here that we're going to kind of go back and forth on some interesting questions we've

created some fun facts general opinions about the experience and I think we can do a

post mortim on our single track

coverage. But the first question I want to ask you, and I only thought of this in the last

three or four days preparing for this episode, at what point will Western states become

more entertaining to consume virtually, like via the live stream, than in person.

Are we there yet?

Will we get there?

Or will it always be the case that, you know, being there in the thick of things is,

is better from a consumption, a fan consumption standpoint.

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