Welcome back or welcome to the single track podcast. I'm your host, Finn Melanson, and in this episode,

we are talking with Catherine and Michelle Pelletti, co-founders of the UTMB race series in Chalmani, France.

We talk about their vision for trail running over the last two decades, their history with ITRA

and the Ultra Trail World Tour, partnering with Ironman and building the UTMB World Series

and their perspective on the future of our sport in the years and decades to come.

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use code single track 20 for 20% off your next order. With that, let's get started. Catherine and

Michelle Palletti, it's a pleasure to have you both on the single track podcast. Thank you and a

hello to everybody. Hello. Thank you, Finn. First question here.

You have been traveling through the Western United States and seeing all these great races like

the Desert Rats series and the Canyon series this coming weekend. I'm curious. This is two questions. What are your first impressions of

the American trail running scene? And talk as well about the similarities and the differences

of the American scene to what you notice in the European scene. Yes, but there is a long time

we travel in USA and because we love this country, we love the spirit,

and in the same time we have many very, very good friends in this place like Taufer from 2003,

and often we come to visit him. By the way, we visit a lot of

races, some very small, some very known, and we understand there is a very different culture between European and American races.

And we love both.

We choose to do something.

We had a choice to make some kind of event.

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