Welcome back or welcome to the Single Track Podcast.

I am your host, Finn Melanson.

And in this episode, we talk with Taylor Nowlin,

a professional trail runner for Adidas Terrix based in Spokane, Washington.

Taylor punched her ticket to Western states this June after a fourth place finish

at the Black Canyon 100K last weekend.

And in addition to race analysis, we talk about how she got into mountain ultra trail running,

life in Spokane, Washington, how she organizes training and racing alongside her other career in nursing,

advice she has for female athletes coming up in

the sport and way more let's get this conversation started shall we welcome

Taylor now Taylor now and welcome to the single track podcast. Thank you so much.

I'm stoked to be here.

And I should also say,

congrats on a golden ticket to Western States.

That's what brought us here today for this conversation.

And you must be thrilled.

I know we're only four or five days removed from the event,

but do you have any initial thoughts and

feelings? I am so excited to like actually have the golden ticket. I was actually just talking to

my dad about it. And he was laughing at me because he was like, how'd you get it home? Because I

flew home. And let me tell you, it is extremely difficult to get a giant golden ticket through

multiple airports. You cannot check them. In one of my flights, I had to put it in the overhead

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