Welcome back or welcome to the Single Track Podcast.

I'm your host, Finn Melanson, and this is the preview episode for the 26 Cocodona 250,

a race that has quickly evolved over the last five years into one of the most compelling and important events for the North American Ultra community.

I'm joined as usual in this one by Brett Hornick and Leah Yingling.

We talk about the

history of the race, the evolution of strategy here and the overall thought process in the

multi-day scene. We talk about the course, the men's and the women's fields, our predictions.

I am so excited. Looking at this men's field as I speak, just a few names that we do touch on, but I think just deserve additional shoutouts here. If we didn't cover them a ton. Ryan Clifford, Joe McConaughey, Adam Kimball, Jeff Browning, Versteig, Max Jolliffe, Jeff Garmeyer, Zach Hauer, Killing, Killeen Kirst, Knoisse, DJ Fox, Jeff Peltier, Edder Ramirez, it's a great lineup.

On the women's side, Courtney DeWalter, Rachel Entrican, Mika Thuse, Megan Eckert, Heather Jackson, Lindsay Dwyer, Lila Godrow, Holly Stables, Lauren Jones, Stephanie Rosebaugh, Manuela,aseca, and Sally McCrae.

So yeah, just a compelling race across both fields.

We recorded this one on April 23rd, about 11 days pre-race.

We did talk about the weather forecast, but I ultimately removed it from this episode because

the projections have changed dramatically since then.

Other than that, before we get started,

thanks to precision, fuel, and hydration. They're actually one of the sponsors of Kokadona this year.

They'll be out at the Sedona Posse Grounds Aide Station 2. Of course, one of their athletes in this

race is the great racial entrican who will absolutely be competing for maybe even the overall

win at this year's race.

She will be fueling with precision.

And yeah, they're the official nutrition partner the show.

We're proud to work with them.

Cocodona is on their nutrition planner too.

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