Welcome back or welcome to the Single Track Podcast.

I'm your host Finn Melanson, and this is another episode of our UTMB pre-race interview series.

We're chatting with David Laney, a professional trail runner for craft sportswear based in the Pacific Northwest,

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David Laney, it's a pleasure to have you for the first time on the single track podcast.

Thanks so much, man. Thanks for first time on the single track podcast.

Thanks so much, man. Thanks for having me on. It's awesome.

I know we will talk largely about UTMB in this particular conversation, but I do want to get a little bit on your current job at Kraft.

I know I think you talked with Dylan Bowman about this a little bit on free trail, but it seems like a pretty interesting model where you represent your organization in a couple different ways. So can you give some insight into that? Yeah, totally. So I in 2021 January,

signed a contract with Kraft, Sweden, exclusively to run.

So just a basic general running contract.

And then in November of 2021, I was, had gone out to our U headquarters in Boston and was just doing some stuff for them.

You know, Tommy was running the New York City Marathon.

I was running the New York City Marathon.

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