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

episode, we're talking with Courtney DeWalter, ahead of the 2023 Western States 100. Before we get

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With that, let's get started. All right, Courtney to Walter, it's a pleasure to have you here

live with us in Olympic Valley for the single track podcast. Thank you. Look at your setup. You

guys are pro. We're doing it. We're doing it. We're doing it. We did it. We man. Yeah, it's a lot of fun questions. But before we start,

I do just want to put Finn on blast because the last time we got to talk about a race that you were

running, Finn picked you to not win. And I was just wondering how much you used that to fuel your

training for Western states this year?

Not at all. I'm sorry. My fuel tank is only filled with positive things. So I did not use

that to fuel me and you can pick me to place anywhere you'd like or not pick me at all this weekend.

I won't be offended.

We have to only ask the tough questions around here. Do you play fantasy free trail?

I don't know, but I do play other fantasy sports. I just haven't dove into the free trail

fantasy yet. Awesome. Well, yeah, it's such a pleasure to have you here. Difficult for me to

relive that massive mistake earlier in my media life, but we're all human. It wasn't a massive

mistake. You made very sound choices. We all swing for the fences from time and time.

But I learned my lesson, never doing that again. Definitely not definitely not this week but anyways it's a pleasure

to have you here we love having you on the show you bring great energy I think the first question

I have for you kind of shooting myself in the foot here but you probably have this whole media

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