All right, this is Long Run Archives number 15. I'm joined by Brad Hornig, Jeff Colton,

Karen Malcolm. It is so great to have you three here. On the docket for discussion,

we've got the Black Canyon 100K, current Western field, look ahead to Canyon's 100K,

tragic passing of Kelvin Keptim, Stion Angerman's positive doping test post-CC.

We might have more, but that's a lot to get into.

Starting with the Black King 100K, Jeff, you were texting a group of runners post-race.

You said he had some good conversations, kind of triggered some thoughts on the sport in this current moment where

things are headed. What do you got for us? So much. I'll start at the first part of that,

which was, yeah, I was chatting with a couple of the runners after Black Canyon's 100K to get a

feel for what the race felt like, whether, you know, we've been talking about these

trends in our sport of the elites are no longer fading latent races. There's no more time for

the random baller runners. Everything's getting so much faster, or is it just the fact that it was

a very cool day and cool temperatures

typically lead to faster times? So a lot of insights and takeaways. I think the short of it,

in my opinion, is this is definitely the most talented Ultrafield

assembled on U.S. soil for men and women.

The Black 100K was incredibly deep in a way that Western States isn't able to be in a way

that maybe JFK is too late in the season to be,

uh, hearkening back to the like White River 50 mile days and North Face 50 mile days like this,

it really did seem like a championship level race, uh,

that went on in early February, which is wild.

Corinne, one thing I've been curious about, like with this year's version of Black Canyon,

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