Welcome back or welcome to the Single Track podcast.

I'm your host, Finn Melanson, and this is a 2022 Havelina 100 pre-race interview with Annie Hughes,

a professional trail runner for Hoka based in Leadville, Colorado.

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Annie Hughes, it's a pleasure to have you on the Single Track podcast. Yeah, thank you so much for having me. It's a pleasure to have you on the single track podcast.

Yeah, thank you so much for having me.

It's my pleasure, and this is actually, I think, our first time meeting.

So I do want to collect a little bit of background before we get into the topic at hand, which is Havelina.

And I think one of the many things that I find fascinating about you is that you train in Leadville,

Colorado, which is famous for many reasons.

But I'm curious, what brought you there?

And what is the Trail and Ultra community like outside of August when the 100 mile race is going on?

Yeah.

So I moved here in 2019.

And so I lived here three years.

But I moved to Buna Vista, Colorado, which is just 30 minutes down the road from Ludville

for my senior year of high school and my parents still live there.

And then I moved to Alamosa, Colorado, and ran for Adams State University.

I did cross-country track there for two years. And yeah, when I decided to quit the team and

just to pursue alternate trail running, I figured, well, I don't have to stay here in Alamosa. I could go

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