All right, day two, Western States Week coverage continues. We have Abby Hall in the studio.

Pleasure to have you here. Abby, how are you doing? Thanks so much. I'm really happy to be here.

Happy, it's finally race week. I feel like when you talk to any athlete that's praying for this race,

no two pre-race week formulas are the same.

How do you handle the four, five, six days before the start line?

Honestly, I think having like my Adidas teammates around makes that pretty easy.

Like I feel like I have been like just spending my days mainly just like lingering at

the breakfast table, which turns into the breakfast table, which turns into

the lunch table, which turns into the dinner table, I mean, plus some runs and obligations

in between. But like it just, you realize, oh, the whole day is past. And I've just been kind of like

shooting the breeze with my friends and chatting and often not chatting about running, just

kind of like

laughing and enjoying so it's like made it feel pretty calm you seem at ease like we've had a

bunch of people come through I've gotten a read on everyone you seem at ease yeah I do feel I do feel

I do feel pretty calm I'm sure the nerves will hit more.

But I don't know. I'm just like I think starting to feel like the

cumulative weight of like the number of

seasons, the number of big race weeks

and feeling like I don't know,

I've had these things go great. I've had

these things not go great. Either way

your life doesn't change all that much.

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