Golden Ticket Talks | Leah Yingling, Canyons 100K 2nd Place Female

Singletrack

Finn Melanson

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

5 • 897 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Text us your thoughts about this episode or ideas for future episodes!Leah Yingling is a professional trail runner for Salomon based in Salt Lake City, UT.In addition to preparation for the Canyons 100K, her race analysis, and expectations for Western States in June, we also talk about her multi-year odyssey for a golden ticket, how she is able to perform so consistently in such an unpredictable sport, what its like having a life partner that is just as passionate about ultrarunning, the bene...

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0:00.0	Welcome back or welcome to the Single Track podcast.
0:05.0	I'm your host Finn Melanson and in today's episode we talk with Leah Yingling,
0:10.0	a professional trail runner for Solomon based here in Salt Lake City, Utah.
0:15.0	In addition to preparation for the Canyon's 100K, her race analysis and expectations for the Western States 100 this coming June.
0:23.6	We also talk about her multi-year odyssey for a golden ticket, how she's able to perform so consistently in such an unpredictable sport,
0:31.6	what it's like having a life partner that is just as passionate about ultra running, the benefits of training
0:38.4	in Salt Lake City, and much, much more.
0:41.5	Let's get started.
0:42.5	All right, Leah Yingling, great to have you here.
0:46.7	Welcome to the Single Track podcast.
0:48.5	Thanks for having me here, Finn.
0:49.5	I'm excited.
0:50.5	I'm excited for a couple reasons.
0:52.2	I mean, A, I think it's fair to say you're an ultra running geek
0:55.0	like I am. We also have your golden ticket to talk about in this past weekend. And I don't know
1:00.6	about you, but I'm riding a high after last weekend. It was fun to get the Salt Lake Group together
1:05.0	and to hang out at Michigan Bluff for a couple days and then obviously partake in the race and
1:09.7	celebrate. And so I don't know.
1:11.6	Where are you out right now?
1:13.2	Oh, sad.
1:14.2	Sad coming off the weekend.
1:15.7	Man, it was such a high.
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