Hayden Hawks | Racing Jim & Zach, Western States Ambitions, The Mamba Mentality
Billy Yang Podcast
Billy Yang
4.8 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2022
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
My guest on this episode is Hayden Hawks, one of the greatest talents in the sport of American ultrarunning.
Today, we explore a myriad of topics including his competitive mindset, his professional approach to ultrarunning, what it was like competing against the likes of Jim Walmsley and Zach Miller, how ball sports athletes influenced his own approach as an endurance athlete, stories about his faith and how it shaped him into who he is today, what it will take to win Western States and much, much more.
He was an absolute pleasure to talk to and I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I enjoyed having it!
+ Watch on YouTube https://youtu.be/1ddX2bfcx3k
+ Miller vs. Hawks https://youtu.be/7DCR03UDggA
+ Hayden Hawks Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hawks_hayden/
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| 0:00.0 | I'm not there to take second or third place. I'm there to take second or third place. I'm there to win the race. You know, I wasn't willing to let Jim just go and run away with it and sit back and try to take second |
| 0:18.8 | place. I wasn't willing to do that you know I that not me. I'm always going to put myself in |
| 0:23.9 | contention to win and if that means going out with Jim Wamsley and trying to |
| 0:28.6 | push it on him and trying to see if I can break him, then I'm going to do that. |
| 0:35.0 | Okay, here we go. |
| 0:38.0 | Greetings and salutations to your community. |
| 0:40.0 | This is Billy Yang and welcome once again to the Billy Yang Podcast. |
| 0:45.0 | I hope your summers are treating you well. |
| 0:48.0 | I hope life is treating you well and if you're shooting for the stars on some big audacious summer goals, I hope your training is going well. |
| 0:56.7 | As for me, my head's been buried in Western states' work leading up to our second annual live |
| 1:02.3 | broadcast, which will air starting at |
| 1:04.9 | 4.15 a.m. on Saturday, June 25th. The last weekend in June is always my favorite |
| 1:11.6 | weekend of the year and it's precisely because of this |
| 1:14.4 | race but more importantly the people the people everyone that will descend upon |
| 1:19.1 | Olympic Valley once again that makes me so giddy with excitement. So please |
| 1:27.2 | tune in, engage in the comments, stick around for the round-the-clock coverage as we go |
| 1:35.7 | all 30 hours sharing stories from what will be |
| 1:44.0 | newly minted M and F-1s since Jim and Beth will not be returning this year. All the way to Golden Hour, which I will once again have the pleasure of being behind the |
| 1:48.0 | Mike in the booth, bringing your loved ones and friends home to Placer High. |
| 1:53.2 | It's going to be awesome. |
| 1:55.2 | It's going to be emotional for me anyway. |
| 1:58.5 | I always tear up in the final hour of the race at some point. |
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