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2025 Black Canyon 100K Preview | Analysis, Storylines, Predictions

Singletrack

Finn Melanson

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

5897 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2025

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Text us your thoughts about this episode or ideas for future episodes! Finn Melanson, Brett Hornig, and Leah Yingling provide in-depth analysis, commentary, and predictions for the competition at this year’s Black Canyon 100K. Timestamps: (0:00) - Catching Up, Partnership News(5:27) - Listener Questions For Black Canyon(36:53) - Women's Field Analysis(1:07:33) - Men's Field Analysis(1:41:37) - Final Thoughts Partners: Norda - one giant leap for trail-kind (https://nordarun.com/)Gorewear - ...

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0:00.0

All right, we are back. This is a preview episode for the 2025 Black Canyon 100K. And I'm not sure if we were talking about it or I saw it somewhere else on the internet, but we finally get to talk about racing again. I feel like there's been two or three months talking about the business of the sport, all the juiciness around free agency, etc.

0:19.4

And maybe we will delve into a little bit of that today.

0:21.5

But we get to mostly talk about racing.

0:24.7

Leah, starting with you, just how's everything going?

0:27.9

What's doing in your world before we dive into all this?

0:30.0

Yeah, I've been in a lot of conversations with people lately where I'm like just so burnt out

0:33.7

on the last like December, January, ultra running topics.

0:40.2

Like from Uroy to free agency.

0:43.8

And it's just like at the point where I'm over it.

0:45.8

So I'm really excited to talk about racing.

0:47.8

But you have news to share.

0:48.7

I do.

0:49.3

Yeah.

0:58.5

I just as of tomorrow, February 1st, Isigned with Lou Lemon for a multi-year contract,

1:00.0

really excited about it.

1:04.7

They've been great partners with me the last couple of years and just excited to move forward with them.

1:05.8

And yeah, I think we have a really fun future and a lot of plans this upcoming year.

1:11.2

Any further type stuff? Or do you get to sort of choose your own schedule from here on out?

1:16.0

I don't choose my own schedule. I told them what I've got lined up for the year.

1:19.9

They're very, very supportive of that, not really pushing me in any specific direction.

1:24.7

Definitely like staying in the trail space this year as well. So excited to

1:28.9

kind of play a part on that product innovation side of things as well. Yeah. And the one thing I've

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