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All right, folks, welcome back to another episode of the HPO podcast.

For this episode, I am going solo.

And the reason for that is because this is going to be just kind of a recap of a current race I just did.

So this past weekend on Friday, April 23rd, I took part in the U.S. Track and Field 100 Mile Road

Championships, which was hosted in Henderson, Nevada. And this one was really interesting to me,

for a few reasons. One is I was kind of interested in getting out to this event for a year or two earlier.

So I kind of had it on my radar.

Two, it's usually hosted in February.

And the reason for that is it's a short loop course.

So it's 1.175 mile loop around this lake with a little bit of rolling hills in there. I think it's somewhere

between 40 and 50 feet of elevation gain per lap. So there's 85 of those laps. So it ended up,

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