All right, welcome back to another episode of Eurotrack where I'm joined by co-host Katie Shide.

In this episode, we are previewing the 126K race at Trans Grand Canaria, which I am very, very excited about.

The more I research and talk to people and generally get a sense of what it's all about and where it fits into the scene.

It's just so cool.

And Katie, you are actually

over there right now, I believe, getting ready to race the VK. What are your initial impressions of

the environment and the vibes pre-race pre-festable? Yeah, well, it's good to see you again, Finn,

even though I'm in a different place than normal. But yeah, it's fun to be actually on site here for this, although I wish we could

have caught up after the race when I have even a better sense of the race. But yeah, I would say

first impressions are similar to some of the other canary islands that I've

visited. This is my first time on Grand Canaria. Yeah. But a little less vegetated than

Tenerife or something like Madera, which is not a canary island, but a little farther north

and there's a lot more vegetation there.

Although I've only been in one part of the island so far and I've been told that

there are more trees and vegetation in other areas.

So first impression, classic, great Spanish welcome, everyone's happy, their sun, it's warm.

I think everyone's just kind of happy to be outside in T-shirts and shorts and kind of relaxing a bit.

It's really interesting the timing of the year for this race. I've heard secondhand from people like Nuria Picos who says that Transgrant Canaria is this huge race for Spanish

ultra runners. And I think generally it is a big race on the European calendar in general. But

then you run into this sort of conundrum where if you are a two-sport athlete, if you are a

skier, if you have a schemo season, this is just an awkward time of the year to train if you can train it all specifically.

Is that sort of the vibe you get as well?

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