This episode of the single track podcast is brought to you by Norda, the official footwear partner of the show.

Look, I test about 25 to 30 shoes each year from all of the major show running brands in our sport.

I still keep coming back to Norda's 005 model for race day. Simply put, it is the lightest, fastest, most stable super shoe ever created for our sport.

Norda does not just take the tech conventions from road running and apply them to

trail.

Instead, they have developed a highly responsive and stable shoe with super critical foam that

caters to the specific surface demands that our community races on.

I wore them last year at the Buffalo Run 50 and the Cocodona 250 last year.

Had breakthrough performances at both, but don't take my word for it. Go check out their

athlete roster to see what else is up. They are all rocking it. Anyways, norderrun.com. Don't

wait. Single track is also brought to you by Raid Research, our official equipment partner.

And I want to tell you about something

they have called the firsts grant and that helps finance outfit and prepare athletes in the mountain

endurance community pursuing interesting personal projects in the 2026 calendar year examples include

jane moss's fkT project on the grant Teton last summer. Super cool program. The deadline for

applications this year is February 20th. That's just a few days from now. So head over to their website,

raidresearch.com to apply. All right, we are back. This is the 26 Black Canyon weekend recap episode.

There is so much to cover. I was telling you guys offline. I have

the most miscellaneous notes ever. Thank you so much to the listeners and viewers in our

Instagram DMs today who gave us quite a few prompts in addition to what I had written down for us to

go off tonight. First, you guys were both on the ground. Leah, starting with you, the live stream, talk about your experience this weekend.

It was such a good race to follow.

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