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Abby Hall's Inspirational Journey To The 2024 UTMB

Singletrack

Finn Melanson

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

5897 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Text us your thoughts about this episode or ideas for future episodes!Abby Hall’s journey to the 2024 UTMB start line is, in my opinion, one of the most compelling storylines of this year’s race. It’s been a while since she was last on the podcast—roughly about two years ago, around this same time, before the same race. This hiatus was not due to a lack of interest on my part. I closely follow her career across various social media platforms; she’s an exceptional writer and excels at doc...

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0:00.0

Abby Hall's journey to the 2024 UTNB start line, in my humble opinion, is one of the most

0:05.8

interesting storylines in this year's race. It's been a while since she's been on the podcast.

0:10.5

Actually, probably dates back to roughly two years ago, right around the same time before the

0:15.3

same race, but it's certainly not for lack of interest. I am an avid follower of her career

0:20.3

across all the social channels out there.

0:22.7

She's a great writer and one of the best at documenting the process of being a pro trail runner.

0:28.7

Anyways, in this particular conversation, we talk about everything that has transpired for her over

0:33.1

the last 15 months and exactly what it took to get back to the biggest stage in our sport. I think you're

0:39.1

going to find this to be a really valuable episode. Abby is an extremely generous conversationalist.

0:45.4

She always finds ways to connect her answers, her perspectives back to the welfare of this audience.

0:51.5

And yeah, I'm stoked to share it. With that, let's get right into it.

0:56.5

Abby Hall, it is a pleasure to have you back on the single track podcast. How are you doing today?

1:01.7

Thank you, Finn. I'm doing well. Always happy to have a chat with you. I love your show so much.

1:08.3

Oh, it means a lot. And yeah, I think maybe the place to start.

1:12.5

Because I think this is part UTMB pre-race thing, but also like a summary or like a look

1:19.8

back at the last 15 months.

1:21.2

I think it might be helpful to summarize the last like year and a half here for the

1:25.3

rest of the conversation.

1:26.2

It kind of makes sense.

1:27.4

By all accounts you

1:29.3

you had your best season in 2022 right like podiums at trans grand canaria ccccc

1:35.0

transvolcano you fast forward to i think it was june of last year freak accident nonchalant

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