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Final Cocodona Thoughts, Transvulcania Recap, Western States Updates (Singletrack News)

Singletrack

Finn Melanson

Wilderness, Sports, Trail Running, Ultramarathon, Ultra Running, Running, News, Sports News, Mountain Running, Ultrarunning

5.01.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Alyssa Clark is back in the co-host seat for this week's edition of Singletrack News. It's a bit of a non-traditional episode as we go longer and spend the first half trading thoughts on this year's Cocodona 250. After that, we go through a brief recap of Transvulcania, a preview of Zegama and other local and international races this coming weekend + our content and gear picks of the week. Partners: Precision Fuel and Hydration - use code SINGLETRACK at checkout for 15% off your next orderN...

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0:00.0

This is the Monday, May 11th edition of single track news, joined by Alyssa Clark, who is fresh off a masterful commentating experience at the Code 10250 this past week, which is its own ultra, I would say. How are you recovering from the job?

0:18.1

Oh, gosh. Well, let's just say I had a seven-hour drive back yesterday, and I was quite excited to sit for a lot of that in

0:26.8

silence or listening to podcasts that had very little to do with running. Well, here's the thing. So we,

0:36.0

Brett Lee and I midweek this past week did sort of a quick

0:39.2

reactions, Coca-Donough recap episode. It was sort of after both the men's and women's

0:45.0

podiums had finished up. But like there's, I feel like there's still a lot to honor and talk about

0:50.3

here and absolutely wanted to get some of your takeaways. I have a few that I've

0:54.4

developed in the past few days as well, but yeah, we can kind of riff off of, riff off each other

1:00.8

as we do. What is top of mind for you? Yeah, you know, I feel like there's the obvious things

1:06.4

where it's like course records broken, Rachel coming in first overall.

1:12.4

I feel like those have been talked about quite a bit.

1:14.8

So I want to pull back, I think on the media side is something I really wanted to dive into.

1:20.2

So I did have the chance to be on the commentating team for Mountain Outpost.

1:24.3

I see a lot of the behind the scenes that's happening.

1:29.8

The level of production that Mountain Outpost. I see a lot of the behind the scenes it's happening. The level of production that Mountain Outpost is putting together right now is just insane. I mean, a multiple piece

1:37.7

commentating team. We have an in-studio team. We have field editors. We have the Kokodona Chronicles. We have now

1:45.3

added the Kokodona Confessionals. There's just so many parts are drone operators. Mitch,

1:51.0

I'm naming you by name because Mitch was like, they never named the drone operators. They just

1:55.8

say, thanks drone operators. So Mitch, awesome job. And just the like, then there's runner cams. So I feel like the

2:04.3

elevation of the product the Mountain Outpost is putting out, I just have, having seen it really

2:10.1

closely is amazing. And I think just elevates the sport. So I think that's something. I will say there's a

2:20.0

good and a bad of the media. So that was, I feel like, the good side. The bad side is that I feel

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