Welcome back or welcome to the Single Track Podcast.

I'm your host, Finn Melanson, and in this episode, we're joined by Emily Hoggood,

ahead of the 2023 Western States 100.

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Emily Hoggud, it's great to have you back on the single track podcast and in person here in Olympic Valley.

Super great to be in person. It's nice not just staring at a screen.

I think that there's an added bonus to the in-person vibe and I mean remote's great.

We did it during COVID, but this is special.

So thank you so much for being here.

Yeah, thank you so much for having me.

I think maybe a good place to start is just the fact that the last time we talked, I think you were based up in Idaho and now you're closer to the Western States course. So talk about that move. Yeah. So just helping out,

I didn't have any way to live off to grad school and had friends that needed kind of a house sitter.

And they were like, yeah, would you help out and clean the pool and look off to the yard and I was like

yeah let's do it how has that affected your training like do you think it's been much more

beneficial to be able to get out and see you know as much of the course you know all year long

essentially yeah I mean obviously this year's a little different because we had some fires with a lot

of closures on the course, so not a bunch of the trail was open super early.

But last year definitely saw all the course before the race, and that was really cool.

And I think even more than that just it's really

become home trails and home community like I know the people out here now and even running you

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