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I'm your host Finn Melanson and this is a 2022 Havillin 100 pre-race interview with

Brittany Peterson, a professional trail on ultra runner for Nike based in Pocatello, Idaho.

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And with that, let's get started. All right, Brittany Peterson,

welcome back to the single track podcast. Hello, thanks for having me.

So we last spoke back in mid-August before UTMB, and it seems like a fair bit has happened since then.

Personally, I've really appreciated the self-reflective

posts you've made about your mindset and performance since then. And there's a couple topics

that I want to touch on before we get to the main theme here, Havillina. In a few immediate posts

after UTMB, you talked about, quote, hiding behind running and

forcing your way to start and finish lines and sort of questioning if you still have what it

takes. Can you unpack some of that here and maybe talk about how you've processed at all and what

some of the answers might be in the wake of everything? Yeah. Well, it's an ongoing process, and answers are always evolving, I guess.

But I think, I mean, 2022 has been just not a great year for me as far as results and big buildups and disappointments.

And I think a lot of just reflecting on my personality as far as why,

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