Blanchard Leaves Salomon, Madeira Preview + Molly Seidel Satisfy Announcement (Singletrack News)

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Finn Melanson

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🗓️ 20 April 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Alyssa Clark joins Finn to roll through a packed news week in ultra-trail. Headlines include Ashley Paulson's 12:47:10 treadmill world record set in front of a packed Boston Marathon Expo (a 90-minute improvement on the previous mark), Mathieu Blanchard leaving Salomon to sign with Kiprun as the French brand pushes into the North American market, and a stacked Madeira Ultra Trail start list featuring Jasmine Lowther, Helen Mino Faukner, Katharina Hartmuth, Ethan Peters, and a deep American co...

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0:00.0	All right, welcome back or welcome to the single track podcast. I'm your host, Finn Melanson,
0:04.4	and this is a special two-part episode in the first half. We have the weekly single track news
0:09.4	with co-host Alyssa Clark. And in the back half, I am posting a special brief announcement
0:15.8	interview with Molly Seidel. We talk for about 15 minutes regarding her new multi-year pro contract with Satisfi. Pretty cool.
0:24.5	In case you missed the news, Norta athletes have been on a role recently. Rachel Entrican continues
0:29.8	her hot streak towards this year's Kokodona. She just won the Whiskey Basin 91K in Prescott,
0:34.9	Arizona. And Ryan Sullivan just registered a big win at the Lake Sonoma 100K outside of Healdsburg, California.
0:42.4	Ryan, I believe, was wearing the newest colorway of the 005, and Rachel was in the brand new
0:48.1	05s, which are set to release this summer.
0:51.5	Go check out my favorite trail running shoes at norda run.com. Precision,
0:56.5	fuel and hydration. News to share here as well. Jesser and Small and Lottie Brinks, the two winners of
1:02.0	the Gorge Waterfalls, 100K last weekend, fueled with precision. Head over to their IG profiles to see
1:07.7	the breakdown of their numbers. Pretty cool cool if that inspires you to dial in your
1:11.8	own nutrition for your next race check out the fuel and hydration planner on their website got the link
1:17.7	in the show notes of the episode it's free to use all right this is the monday april 20th 2026 edition
1:23.3	of the single track news joined by friend colleague alisa clark alice you're racing this weekend how are you
1:29.0	doing i'm doing well you know i'm going through the we'll say the stages of grief denial
1:35.1	disbelief joy excited you know all those stages of racing uh pre-race but i think i'm in a good spot
1:41.1	i'm really excited i feel like it's been a bit since feel like it's been a bit since I, well, it's
1:46.2	been a bit since I've raised a hundred mile and that's my favorite. So I'm just excited. It's
1:50.9	getting to go play in a beautiful area. So yeah, ready to rip. And Finn, you just came back from
1:57.8	visiting family in the East Coast. How was that? One week, I left the
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