Hello, happy new year and welcome to free trails rollout of the 2023 Trail Router

of the Year award presented by Ketone IQ.

I'm your host Dylan Bowman, and for the first 10 days of 2024, we will be counting down the top 10

trail athletes in the world for both men and women, as was voted on by a thousand trail running fans

from around the world. Together with the athletes, we recount their seasons,

contemplate highs and lows,

meditate on some learnings,

and look ahead to their goals for the future.

As I said,

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You'll hear more from them later,

but please visit the show notes for a link you can use for 30% off your first subscription of this

amazing product. It's HVMN.com forward slash free trail 30. And again, that link is in the show

notes. Today, we're joined by the number seven trail riders of the year. The French duo Germain Granger and Claire Banworth.

Germant crushed it this year.

First place at the Montblok 90K, third place at UTMB, and second place at the Grand

Ray diagonal DeFou, a huge year from this great rising French superstar Claire.

Holy smokes.

Probably nobody in the world put up more racing volume than Claire.

Hard to narrow down some of her highlights, but there was a win at the notoriously

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