Welcome back or welcome to the single track podcast. I'm your host, Finn Melanson, and it has been a minute.

We have been fully immersed in all things, Barkley Marathons, working hard to bring a few key projects to the finish line.

Two big shoutouts here. First, the finisher, a long-form documentary about Jasmine Paris's three-year journey to become the first female finisher at the Barclay.

Huge credit and gratitude to my partners and friends, Jules Campanelli, Drew Darby, and Rob Fisher,

who worked tirelessly to bring this piece to life. We wrapped it up in great form last week.

It's there on the single track YouTube channel. Second, we turned around a 2025

Barkley recap vlog to get a window into this year's

event as quickly as possible.

That is also now live on the single track YouTube channel.

And thank you to the excellent work of another friend and colleague, Ruth Smith, for doing

that.

Before we get to this newest edition of the long run archives, a thank you to our presenting

shoe sponsor, Norda. If you haven't heard their newest model, the 005, is the best most

versatile trail running super shoe on the market. It's designed to perform at the highest levels

across virtually any terrain. I have put over 350 miles on my current pair, and they're going to be my go-to

shoe for Kokadona because, you know what? We are in that era of multi-day races now where you

cannot just hike. You've got to giddy up. Shout out Jeff Browning and run the vast

majority of the time, and you need a shoe that can handle that. So head over to nordorun.com

for more info.

And with that, let's get to this conversation with the legendary Brett Hornig.

We are back.

This is the 24th edition of the Long Run Archives, joined by friend, colleague, Brett Hornig.

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