Welcome back or welcome to the single track podcast. I'm your host, Finn Melanson, and in this episode, Jim Walmsley returns for another long, wide-ranging conversation.

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All right, Jim Walmsley, great to have you back on the single track podcast.

How are you doing today?

Doing good.

Yeah, looking forward to connecting and catching up.

Did you get a chance to watch Havillina this past weekend?

And if so, what were your thoughts, what were your takeaways?

What stuck with you?

I followed it a little bit. Checked checked in it's kind of a weird time

watching it in europe i think i was sleeping most of it so uh but yeah fast times i guess it's the first takeaway and then will murray with kind of a second's big big hit of a run. But the top three guys kind of smashing the time

and it's not just one guy, not just two guys, like three.

I think it's kind of indicative of more aggressive racing

and potentially like a really nice day.

But then also I saw lots of ice kitty pools.

So I think the way Jameo and Arava kind of run their race and run

Havillina and how they do it and how they kind of run it as like, let's get people, Western

States qualifiers is like probably the biggest pull for that race for people to do it a lot of

times.

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