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Abby Hall | 2022 UTMB-CCC Pre-Race Interview

Singletrack

Finn Melanson

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

5.01.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Abby Hall is a professional trail runner for Adidas Terrex based in Flagstaff, AZ preparing for the 2022 UTMB-CCC. Sponsors: This episode is brought to you by Gnarly Nutrition. Use code Singletrack20 at checkout to get 20% off your next order. Timestamps: (1:42) - life talk(3:44) - recovery from knee injury(6:11) - training in Chamonix this summer(9:09) - motivations to return to CCC again(11:14) - race day gear Links: Follow Abby on Instagram Additional Episodes You May Enjoy: #114 - Hanna...

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0:00.0

All right, welcome back or welcome to the Single Track podcast.

0:04.0

I'm your host, Finn Melanson, and in this episode we are talking with Abby Hall,

0:08.0

a professional trail runner for Adidas Terrix based in Flagstaff, Arizona,

0:12.0

preparing for the UTMB-CCC race later this week.

0:18.0

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0:22.8

Narly is a sports nutrition company based here in my hometown of Salt Lake City, Utah. I use their

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0:39.3

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0:50.3

checkout on their website. Abby Hall, welcome to the single track podcast. Thanks so much,

0:56.3

Ben. Yeah, happy to be back on here again and yeah, big fan of all that you're up to. So good to,

1:01.6

good to join you today. It's great to have you here. And I do want to touch on a couple of topics

1:06.7

before we get into the main theme here of CCC. I was actually looking at your Instagram, and a lot of the recent posts that you have made,

1:15.6

they've just been incredibly uplifting.

1:18.6

Like they've just expressed general contentment for where you're at in life and the way things are.

1:23.6

And I think this is a good place to start.

1:26.6

Can you talk about how you got to this point

1:29.6

and just maybe give some detail into how you've organized your life to reach this I'll say

1:36.9

elusive moment of contentment like it's something that we're all striving for in life I feel like

1:42.4

yeah you know I kind of as you and I have talked about before, kind of took a bet on myself a little over a year ago and quit my job, went kind of all in on my running and have just found like a lot of peace with that decision and a lot of joy in it.

2:01.8

I think there's a lot of, you know, conceptions about what that looks like to be all in on

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