Welcome back or welcome to the Single Track podcast.

I'm your host, Finn Melanson, and in this episode, we are talking with David Hedges,

a professional trail runner for Norda and Satisfi, based in Intervale, New Hampshire, preparing for the 2022 new TMB.

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David Hedges, it's great to meet and it's great to have you on the single track podcast.

Thanks for having me, then.

You've had a solid 2021 so far. You had a solid, sorry, I should say you had a solid 22 so far and you had a solid 2021.

And before we dig into all the details around UTMB,

I'm curious, does this last couple of years feel like the pieces have been starting to come together for you

from a training and performance standpoint?

Yeah, yeah.

Actually, I think that's a really good way of putting it.

And also maybe even like a whole holistic life standpoint, you know, how those puzzle pieces fit. But yeah, I had a good year last year kind of doing it my own, like on my own, you know, sort of just reaping the rewards of years of dumb training. And then I started working again with my coach,

Alex Nichols, after Bandera,

and sort of the rest has been like,

I don't know about exponential,

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