Welcome back or welcome to the Single Track podcast. I'm your host, Finn Melanson. What we have here is our

Monday of Western States Week interviews. We're grateful that Dylan Bowman from Free Trail and Jim Walmsley

stopped by our Olympic Valley studio to chat it up on an assortment of ultra-running topics.

Big thanks to Brooks, the presenting sponsor of all this content. Their new, versatile Cascadia 18 features a trail-adapt system to deliver a stable ride

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And yeah, with that, let's get to these conversations with Dylan and Jim.

I think this summer.

Dylan, I was just saying offline, you are probably the most passionate and hardest working person in trail right now.

You look great despite being four days into a media vision quest.

How's it going?

Well, this morning, I got a nice meditation in.

I read my book.

I stretched.

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