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2024 Western States 100 Coverage Announcement

Singletrack

Finn Melanson

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

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

I am joined by co-host Brett Hornig to present our coverage plan for the 2024 Western States 100. From Monday, June 24th through Friday, June 28th we're livestreaming 10 athlete interviews, 5 influencer/operator conversations, and 5 pre-race daily shows from our studio in Olympic Valley. Stay tuned for more information, especially details about daily content schedules, listener and viewer giveaways, and Wednesday group run, posted on the Singletrack YouTube and Instagram channels as we ...

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0:00.0

I am back with friend and frequent collaborator and co-host Brett Hornig to make an announcement.

0:06.6

We did this last year.

0:07.6

We're doing again this year.

0:08.6

We are back with another year of single track coverage of the Western States 100.

0:13.5

The entire week, Monday to Sunday is going to be blanketed with interviews, shows, race day coverage, race recap, et cetera.

0:23.0

We love this time of year.

0:24.3

It's probably one of our, it's like our Christmas, I guess, for single track.

0:29.2

So we're here to kind of just talk all about it and how you, the fan, can tune in and

0:35.0

engage and follow along and contribute.

0:39.6

Brett, I have my thoughts,

0:44.1

but what do you think about this week and last year and the chance to kind of run it back this year? Yeah, I mean, you hit the nail on the head. It's like waiting for Christmas. I'm so glad

0:49.6

that last year was not a one-off because we didn't really know, you know, if we were going to get to

0:57.4

do it again because we had no idea if it was going to be successful, if people were going to like

1:00.7

it, if we were going to have a good time. And we ended up checking all those boxes so much so.

1:08.3

We're like, we're absolutely running it back for year two and I'm so excited to like

1:13.6

one just repeat a lot of the fun that we had from last year but then actually build upon

1:19.1

some of it because we did learn a lot last year because I mean we were fully winging it last year

1:23.7

which was which was awesome but we learned a ton.

1:33.4

Yeah, I felt like heading into last year's coverage, I felt like like a freshman entering into the dorm experience at college.

1:35.0

The first time, like, packed everything into my car, like, had this massive list of everything

1:38.7

we had to check off this year just kind of like leaning back.

1:41.5

Like, yeah, we got to do that, got to do that.

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