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2024 Ultrarunning Year In Review | Awards, Highlights, Storylines, Predictions

Singletrack

Finn Melanson

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

5897 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2024

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Text us your thoughts about this episode or ideas for future episodes!Brett Hornig and Leah Yingling join the show to reflect on an exciting year in ultrarunning. We dive into standout storylines, major sports shifts, and rookie athletes' breakout performances. We highlight runners who staged remarkable comebacks, discuss key candidates in TROY and UROY voting, and highlight unsung performances and athletes of the year. Additionally, we share personal highlights and make bold predictions for ...

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0:00.0

All right. This is perhaps my favorite episode of the year. This is the ultra running year and review

0:04.0

joined by friends, colleagues Leah Yingling, Brett Hornig. I think when it's all said and done,

0:09.3

this recap could be mostly North American, mostly Ultra. And I'm expecting a lot of complaints.

0:14.8

And we've actually organized a landing page for you to take your grievances. Just head over to

0:18.8

Instagram, send the DM'd at conversational

0:21.6

pace. And that page will handle everything. They'll sort everything. And yeah, just wanted to

0:26.8

like put that note out there that if there's any issues you have, just send it all the conversational

0:31.4

pace. Yeah. And the complaints won't get seen unless you follow the page too.

0:38.5

That's good.

0:40.2

So with that said, first off, Leah, great to see you here.

0:43.4

How are you doing today?

0:44.4

Oh, I'm good.

0:45.4

I am out in the sticks of Virginia right now, out in Shenandoah National Park area,

0:51.9

spending the holidays with some family.

0:53.9

So I'm joining you guys

0:55.5

about two hours later than you, Finn, three hours later than you, Brett. So sorry if my takes

1:00.2

aren't as spicy tonight. Are those mushrooms behind you? Yeah, they got really great wallpaper

1:07.0

in this Airbnb. Yeah, it's like a full-blown mushroom wall. Yeah. Brad, I think we got

1:13.1

to take a second to compliment Finn on his new haircut, though, before we... I was also going to say

1:17.1

that, yeah. Finn's no longer looking like Salt Lake City Trail Running Jesus. I know. You know,

1:25.4

all things must pass, and I made it to the point where my hair was touching my shoulder.

1:30.6

And I had talked a big game for years about growing my hair out and never did it. And I spent 2024 investing.

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