Welcome back or welcome to the single track podcast.

I'm your host, Finn Melanson, and this is sort of a bonus instant reaction episode to the Western States 100 and Hard Rock 100 race lotteries that took place earlier today.

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order. With that, let's get to this lottery conversation. We just had the Hard Rock 100 and

the Western States 100 lotteries take place earlier this afternoon. I'm joined by friend,

colleague, collaborator Brett Hornig. Brett, before we get into everything, what's up in your world?

How are you doing today?

I don't know if I've ever followed both lotteries so closely because Hardrock and

Western States Lollary, they're always on the same day, right?

I'm pretty sure they are.

Yeah, this is the first year that I was significantly tuning in.

I feel like I'm adding one new media thing to my repertoire each the year, or at least as a fan.

And this year, I mean, yeah, it might be that just the lottery.

The lottery and TRE added a pedestal in my book of importance.

Gosh, are we that deep into like trail running nerdness where

we're watching live streams of just not even races anymore? Like we're we just watch I just watched

a live stream for three hours of Tim Tweetmeyer reading names, which so yeah, I've always I've I've watched the Western States lottery a couple of times because I'm always on

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