Welcome back or welcome to the single track podcast.

I'm your host of Finna Lanson and in this episode we are talking with Adam Mary,

a professional trail runner for Saucany based in Boulder, Colorado, preparing for the 2022 UTMBCCC.

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Adam Mary, it is great to have you back to the single track podcast. What's up, Penn? Thanks for

having me back, man. I'm stoked. So last time we talked, it was sometime in January or February.

It was just after Bandera. You certainly could have continued on in that golden ticket quest at

Black Canyon or the Canyon's 100K, but you had this original plan,

this original vision, and you stuck with it. And I'm curious, and it's CCC, right? So I'm curious,

can you talk about what went into your decision-making process to, again, yeah, just to keep a focus on a race

that's like eight months off in the distance at that time.

Yeah, well, as I'm sure, like a lot of people could probably relate to, it was very alluring to want to jump into another golden ticket race for sure.

I'd be lying if I said I didn't like really consider it.

And I was actually signed up for canyons as well.

So like I very well could have done it. It was kind of as a backup. But you know, as with everything

in life, you know, I like talk to a few different people in my life that, you know, like I trust

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