All right, welcome back or welcome to the single track podcast. I'm your host, Finn Melanson,

and before we get into today's episode, I figured it's worthwhile giving you at least a brief update

on, I don't know, life. First off, I made my best attempt to take a vacation these past few

weeks, which if you know me, is hard because A, I love what I do,

but also B, I probably have some workaholic tendencies.

There's this entrepreneurship quote out there that you basically trade the nine to five life

so that you can work the 24-7 life when you get into this game, and it's totally true.

It can suck you in.

Anyways, the vacation ended up being game and it's totally true it can suck you in anyways the vacation ended up

being great because it's so yeah it's totally true that if you distance yourself from something

for a stretch of time if you truly love it you come back refreshed and stockpiled with some great

ideas for how to proceed so we've got some great content coming down the pipeline,

including a more business of sport-oriented episode

that we recorded out in Chamonie with Jeff Peltier.

We've got a single track update slash AMA episode

that will come out as soon as well, maybe even tomorrow.

And we opened registration for the 26 Twisted Fork Trail Festival, too.

That's going to be taking place on May 30th, 2026 of next year.

So if you want to join us, head over to masif running.com.

That's M-A-S-S-I-F running to sign up.

Finally, before promoting this episode, I have to tell you a funny to me story. Earlier today, I recorded an episode with friends Andrew Drummond and

Matt Hart, who co-host the Run the White's podcast. It's all about the Northeast Trail Running

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