9 Reasons You DON'T Want To Be Chosen In the WS100 Lottery
Trail Runner Nation
Trail Runner Nation
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2015
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
December means a lot of things, for Ultra Runners it is the Lottery Season. WS, Leadville, Hardrock and others.
With 3.515 people in the drawing and nearly 250 slots open Jimmy Dean throws a twist and challenges us to come up with reasons why we should be pleased if we miss getting our ticket pulled.
Join WS runners Jennifer Benna, Katie Desplinter and Billy Yang as we wrestle this topic.
Jennifer Benna's Blog and the home of the film centered around the 2010 WS100 and the amazing race finish here at Journey Films
Katie DeSplinter Blog here at Breaking & Excellent Points
Billy Yang Films . You can find his Western Time film covering Sally McRae's attempt to land a top 10 finish.
Billy Yang's Film - From Squaw to Auburn the story of Billy's 2015 Western States 100 #WinADateWithBillyYang
Jimmy Dean Freeman, TRN SoCal Correspondent, Coach and lead Dog at So Cal Coyotes RunningJimmy Dean Freeman's Inspired Running Blog
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| 0:00.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, of the wide worldwide ultra running community, you are listening |
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| 0:16.3 | It is the trail runner nation podcast. |
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| 0:25.6 | Oh, that's what you're doing. |
| 0:28.2 | There's a bunch of like old brothel hookers like buried out here. |
| 0:32.4 | No, I've just do a podcast for many years and it's, yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 0:40.1 | Yeah, yeah, I do, I do own my own bar every Friday morning on I run |
| 0:49.4 | far. We open up and open up the taps. |
| 0:52.2 | You can, you record this, aren't you, Freeman? |
| 0:54.6 | Get everything welcome to another edition of trail runner nation. |
| 0:59.6 | I'm Don Freeman. |
| 1:00.8 | I am the Southern California correspondent Jimmy Dean Freeman. |
| 1:05.2 | We are clearly missing Scott war who's at work doing things that do |
| 1:09.7 | all things he's supposed to do. |
| 1:11.2 | So he's making money, Don. |
| 1:12.7 | Yeah, Jimmy, take it away. |
| 1:14.7 | We thought about some of our favorite Western states runners because this |
| 1:20.5 | coming weekend is the Western states 100 lottery in Auburn. |
| 1:25.3 | And there is a record number of applicants and qualifiers. |
| 1:30.9 | There are over 3,500 people who have both qualified and applied for |
| 1:36.1 | the Western states 100 in 2016. |
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