Dakota Jones | 2023 Western States 100 Pre-Race Interview

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Finn Melanson

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🗓️ 20 June 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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0:00.0	Welcome back or welcome to the Single Track Podcast.
0:03.5	I'm your host, Finn Melanson, and in this episode, we're joined by Dakota Jones,
0:07.7	ahead of the 2023 Western States 100.
0:11.2	Before we get started, though, this episode is brought to you by Hoka, Rabbit, Morton, and Features.
0:16.5	Head to the show notes page of this episode for discount codes and new product releases from each
0:21.0	of these four sponsors. With that, let's get started. Dakota Jones, it's an absolute pleasure
0:27.6	to have you back on the single track podcast, and we're live here in Olympic Valley, too.
0:31.4	Thanks a lot for having me, guys. It's good to be here. So you made it here. You biked 650 plus miles from the great Salt Lake City to here in Olympic
0:40.3	Valley. Any interesting war stories or highlights from the trip? I wish there were more like great
0:47.1	stories. Honestly, it went great. Everything went well. Like I didn't even get a flat tire. So I don't
0:53.2	really have any like great war stories, but it was an amazing trip.
0:56.7	I rode my bike from my house in Salt Lake City to the Star Line of Western States.
1:00.1	And, I mean, it's amazing.
1:02.8	Door to door.
1:03.9	How long did that end up taking?
1:05.9	I did it in seven days.
1:08.2	Yeah, like 650 miles, 650 miles.
1:10.9	It was like I could break it up in a variety of ways.
1:14.3	In the past on bike tours, I get really competitive.
1:16.4	I'm like, how far can I go every day?
1:18.3	But I didn't want to totally blow myself up before Western States.
1:21.5	That said, across the Great Basin in Nevada, there's like some big sections without
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