Welcome back or welcome to the Single Track podcast. I'm your host, Finn Melanson, and this is a

2022 Havillena 100 pre-race interview with Dakota Jones, a professional trail runner for normal

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All right, Dakota Jones, it's a pleasure to have you on the single track podcast.

Thanks a lot, man.

It's really great to be here.

So a couple things I want to touch on before we get into Havillina first and perhaps, at least

in my opinion, because I'm a Salt Lake City Local, you recently moved back here and I'm

curious, can you talk about what it's been like getting

reacquainted and are you enjoying it so far? Yeah, yeah. So I'm still figuring things out.

Very much a new person here. I've never lived in a city this big. But I am from, I lived

in southern Utah until I was 15. So it does kind of feel like I'm at home a little bit.

And the big reason that I moved here was to be closer to family. And so I'm actually living next door to my sister

now and her husband. And, you know, there's such a great community here. So it feels like I'm here

with a bunch of friends too. So it's been a lot of fun to come to a place where I feel like I know people, especially family, but also like for how many times I've been through here, I don't know the Lassatch Mountains like at all.

And the little bit that I've been able to get out there in the last few months, it's like pretty mind-blowing.

Looking at like Gaia and Strava and seeing what other folks are doing, do you feel like this can be

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