Drew Holmen | 2022 Ultra Trail Cape Town Pre-Race Interview

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Finn Melanson

Wilderness, Trail Running, Sports, Sports News, Mountain Running, Running, Ultrarunning, Ultra Running, News, Ultramarathon

5 • 897 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Text us your thoughts about this episode or ideas for future episodes!Drew Holmen is a professional trail runner for Nike, based in Boulder, Colorado who is preparing for the Ultra Trail Cape Town event series in a few days.Timestamps:(0:56) - revisiting Drew's ability to consistently go to the well in his races(3:42) - reflecting on whether there's more to give and accomplish at Western States(6:12) - motivation, inspiration for choosing Cape Town as first international race(8:37) - training...

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0:00.0	Welcome back or welcome to the single track podcast.
0:03.0	I'm your host, Finn Melanson, and in this episode, we are talking with Drew Holman,
0:07.0	a professional trail runner for Nike based in Boulder, Colorado, who is preparing for the Ultra Trail Cape Town event series here in a few days.
0:15.0	We last chatted with Drew ahead of the Western States 100 earlier this year.
0:20.0	Drew has my eternal respect and admiration for being ahead of the Western States 100 earlier this year. Drew has my eternal respect
0:22.5	and admiration for being one of the toughest runners in the sport. And I am excited for you all to
0:28.1	listen to this one. Let's get started. All right, Drew Holman. Welcome back to the single track podcast.
0:35.2	Finn, thank you. Thank you so much for having me and thank you so much for what you're
0:41.3	doing for this sport, Finn. Like I feel like the number of interviews that you're doing pre-races,
0:47.9	the excitement that you're building. It's just awesome. So, you know, from me, from the community,
0:55.6	thank you. Really appreciate it. I really appreciate that So, you know, from me, from the community, thank you. Really appreciate it.
1:01.6	I really appreciate that. And part of my stoke and my energy each day comes from athletes like you that kind of lay it all out on the line and register these inspiring performances. And
1:06.6	that's actually where I want to dive in because the last time we chatted was just before
1:11.2	this year's Western States. And I think I asked you something on the lines of whether you
1:16.0	had it in you to go so visibly to the well again in that race similar to 2021 and get everything
1:23.5	out of yourself. And it seems like you did just that. And I guess I'm wondering, because we had this conversation about sort of mental
1:31.4	toughness last time, at this point in your career, do you feel pretty confident that
1:36.6	in every race you enter that area of your mind is going to be there for you, allowing
1:42.6	yourself to push?
1:43.5	Like, how do you think about that going into races like Cape Town?
1:47.4	Yeah, great, great question, Finn.
1:50.8	To be totally honest, I think that it's not so much that I'm able to get in that mindset
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