All right, folks, welcome to free trails trailgating coverage of the 2026 Coca-Dona 250. My name is Dylan Bowman, joined by the 2025 champion in the building

from West Virginia, Danny G, Dan Green. Welcome to trailgating, buddy. Thanks for doing this.

No, thanks for having me on. I'm stoked to be here. Great, great race to talk about. Yeah. And over your right

shoulder is in a little animation of the Kocodona course to commemorate your experience out there

on the trails. And of course, you have talked about your experience there at nauseam, including

on the free trail podcast. But here we are to do something a little bit different

to preview the 2026 race. Of course, you're not going to be racing. I want to do sort of a little

personal update on Dan Green here. Maybe we should just do that first before we dive into the docket

here today. Tell your fans, how are you feeling? What's the state of your health and how are you

feeling mentally not step into the start line of this race that, in a lot of ways, like, put you on the map?

Yeah, I guess if you don't know, I am injured.

Not terribly.

Nothing's broken really that bad. But I have,, you know, a bone edema on my heel and a bunch of chronic inflammation that I've been dealing with in my planner and on my posterior tip and a bunch of other things.

Overuse, classic. So I've been in a boot for almost three weeks. I'll be in a boot for another week

and just slowly building back. Won't be running right away either. Kind of take it easy there

and build back slowly, but hope to still have some races at the end of the year. So like I said,

not the worst injury, but it is definitely a change of pace for me, not being able to go out and run on trails or just around town.

But we're finding joys and other avenues.

It is a bummer not to be a Kokadona running, but wasn't planning on going this year anyway.

It's besides to be a Pacer and crew members.

So it'll be just as fun to watch along.

You can see a little bit more whenever you have service the whole time too.

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