All righty. Welcome back or welcome to the single track podcast. I'm your host, Finn Melanson,

and in this episode, I'm joined by friend, colleague Brett Hornig, of course, from the legendary

YouTube channel conversational pace to offer our takeaways less than 24 hours removed from one of the

most shocking hovelina hundreds, maybe in history, even accounting for recency bias.

I don't know.

Specifically, we get into the course record performances from Tara Dauer and that entire men's podium,

Will Murray, David Roche, and Kenny Woodward.

We talk about what all this means for the Western States 100 Golden Ticket Series chase,

and we close up the conversation

talking about the live stream impact, the PACER debate, and what is possible at this event for

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With that, let's get into this conversation with Brett Hornick. Hey, we are back, joined by friend

colleague Brett Hornig to, I guess, provide like somewhat instant, although I guess we're 18 hours removed from the, from the 2025.

I'm still in shock.

You're so? Me too. Me too.

Okay. Let's start right there. What are you most in shock about?

I'm still trying to grapple with these times. I'm trying to remember what you and

Leah had predicted in our episode, but like, I was, I don't think I've ever been so far off

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