Welcome back or welcome to the Single Track Podcast.

I'm your host, Finnel Lancid, and this is another episode of our UTMB pre-race interview series.

We're chatting with Jim Wansley, a professional trail runner for Hoka, based in the French Alps, ahead of his race at UTMV later this month.

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checkout on their website. All right, Jim Walmsley, it's great to meet, and it is great to have you on the single track podcast.

Yeah, thanks for having me.

It's been some long time coming, and I'm glad to finally make it on the show.

Right on.

Well, let's get right into it.

One of the characteristics about you that impresses me so much over the years is just your general

willingness to be public about your goals and furthermore to be held accountable to those

goals as well.

And I think you've described it in that recent Wahoo film like Babe Ruth calling his shot, which I loved.

And I'm curious, where does that mindset come from?

Like, does it come naturally to you?

Has it been trained over the years as a competitor?

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