Welcome back or welcome to the Single Track Podcast.

I'm your host, Finn Melanson, and in this episode, we're talking with Jim Walmsley on a whole assortment of topics.

In the first 20-ish minutes, we talk about how he's managed his career to date and the impacts of moving to France.

In the middle 20-ish minutes, we get into some of the major takeaways from his win at UTMB and maybe even

some of the blueprint, competitively speaking, for other American male runners that are waiting

in the wings in future years. And in the last 25 to 30 minutes, we get some of the insights on

what he wants to do next, how he feels about the UTMB system, and much more.

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With that, let's get started.

Jim Walmsley, it's a pleasure to have you back on the single track podcast.

How are you doing today?

Good, Finn. How are you?

I'm doing great.

And gosh, there's a lot of stuff that I want to talk about in this conversation.

One thing, as I was prepping for this, that came to mind, we had Tom Evans on the show before UTMB, and one comment he made that stuck with me was that he didn't spend much time reflecting on his

Western States when he just sort of dove straight into UTMB training. It was full steam ahead,

and I'm not saying that's good or bad, personally.

I thought it was fine.

I'm not much of a celebrator myself.

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