EP 577: Western States 100- The Keys to Success at This Race and Any Other Long Run
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Trail Runner Nation
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🗓️ 24 June 2022
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Western States 100 is this weekend. International runners represent nearly 1/3 of the entrants. We recorded this episode live with these international runners at a local running store in Auburn California, The Aid Station. Course experts, Tim Twietmeyer and Ian Sharman join us to help these runners understand the course and how to develop a strategy for success. Many of these strategies can translate into your trail adventures and races.
HERE is a link to a course map and elevation profile.
Link to Joe Uhan's iRunFar articles:
- The Western States Killing Machine - Part 1
- The Western States Killing Machine - Part 2
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is where the whole community just comes together for one day, more so than any other |
| 0:06.8 | ultra in the US. |
| 0:07.8 | This is the one that really attracts people, whether they're pacing or whether they're |
| 0:11.2 | in the race themselves. |
| 0:12.7 | So it's just the community side of it that I wouldn't want to be anywhere else. |
| 0:16.2 | And I want to get back in, so I'm not done yet. |
| 0:30.8 | Welcome to the trailhead of trail runner nation, where we go on virtual trail runs with really |
| 0:35.4 | interesting guests that help us and teach us how to be better runners and hopefully better |
| 0:40.6 | human beings. |
| 0:41.8 | If it's your first time, you are more than welcome to join us, lace up the shoes. |
| 0:46.4 | Let's get going, Freeman. |
| 0:47.8 | Hey, and this podcast a little bit different because we're sitting live at a running store |
| 0:52.1 | called the aid station in Auburn. |
| 0:53.8 | And in front of us, the international runners and on the guest panel, two amazing guests |
| 0:59.2 | that have run this race 35 times, Tim and Ian know something about this course. |
| 1:04.7 | And they're going to help our international runners and hopefully you, even if you're |
| 1:08.8 | never going to run Western states, some of the principles they're going to talk about |
| 1:12.7 | translate into each run, each race that you're doing. |
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