2024 UTMB Preview | Analysis, Storylines, Predictions

Singletrack

Finn Melanson

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

5 • 897 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2024

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Text us your thoughts about this episode or ideas for future episodes!Brett Hornig and Leah Yingling retunr to the Singletrack Podcast to help preview the women's and men's fields at the 2024 Ultra Trail Du Mont Blanc (UTMB). In both fields, we cover top storylines and what to watch for, we answer some listener mail about the race, provide analysis of top contenders, categorize who we see as candidates for the win, for the podium, and the top 10, and we make bold predictions across a number o...

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0:00.0	Welcome back or welcome to the single track podcast. I'm your host Finn Melanson and in this episode
0:05.8	I am joined by friends and frequent collaborators, Brad Hornig and Leah Yingling to preview the
0:11.6	2024 UTMB race happening next week in Chamonie France. Note that we are just covering the 100 mile
0:18.4	race in this episode and not the 100k CCC race or the 50K
0:23.1	OCC race.
0:24.4	Both are equally as compelling.
0:26.7	For this year in particular, it is purely a capacity constraint.
0:30.6	As usual, we talk about course strategy, top storylines in the men's and women's fields,
0:35.9	and we make some fun predictions across a variety of
0:39.0	categories to round it all out. With that, let's get into it. Welcome back, everyone. This is our
0:44.6	preview episode for the 2024 UTMB. I'm joined by friends, colleagues, Brett Hornig, and
0:50.5	Leah Yingling, super stoked for what's to come from this. Leah, I was looking back at our
0:56.5	episode library. We missed you last year. You were too busy running a top 10 performance at
1:01.9	UTMB and I think the fastest women's race ever, so we'll excuse it. But this is our first time
1:06.9	doing a UTMB preview together since 2022. Feels like a lot's changed, a whole new era.
1:13.0	Would you agree?
1:13.7	Like, what are you particularly excited about this time around?
1:16.3	UTMB is just so fun to predict and just so fun to be terribly wrong about what your
1:23.8	predictions were.
1:25.0	I think it's a race where so much happens. There's actually a lot of
1:30.1	carnage, a lot of DNFs, a lot of people kind of falling back in the field. And it's impossible to
1:37.1	predict who's going to be in the top 10. So I'm excited to hear what we arrive at in this conversation
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