All right, we are back, day six, celebrating our coverage and conversations at the 2025 Ultra Trail de Montblanc, aka UTMB,

and we have the pleasure being joined today by Anton Kripitschka.

Before we get started, though, quick station ID.

And shout out to our partners, NAC, Norda, Gore, and Raid for literally keeping the lights on and making

all this possible.

Go check them out in the show notes of this episode.

Tony, how's it going today?

Good.

Thanks for inviting me on the pod again, Finn.

It's been what was the last time we talked, maybe a year ago, I think?

It was... Yeah, it was like post-grindstone a year ago I think it was I was I

yeah it was like post grindstone last year I remember it distinctly because you

were the very last conversation I had before my daughter was born oh wow and you

had just done grindstone yeah I think it was like the day after I remember I was

like fully in the fog of like post center mile like really tired yeah i'm trying to think of what you had just you had just reunited with uh or earlier that some kyle skaggs didn't you go visit him down in new mexico uh earlier that earlier last year yeah in 2024 um in march that year, I did a couple thousand mile bike ride in

Arizona, New Mexico, and he lives down in kind of western New Mexico, I guess. So I visited him

along the way. Okay, cool. Well, yeah, I think there's a lot that I want to cover today. I think

it's going to be super wide-ranging. You mentioned offline that you got here. I mean, we're recording this at 10 a.m. local time.

You got in at 9 a.m.? Well, it's weird. My flight got delayed. I was supposed to get in last night, but so I ended up just getting a room in Geneva last night and then driving up this morning. and then here with Sportiva? Yeah, yeah.

I mean, apparently, I mean, I think this has been the case for well over a decade now, but UTMB week is the kind of industry event of the year, I would say.

So everybody's hit, you know.

But I mean, there's several sportiva athletes who are running, racing this week week so they have a house down Laisusch and a booth at the I don't

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