It's been a long time coming, seven months to be exact, I believe, but welcome back to another

episode of the Golden Ticket Talks in which we chat with second place finisher at the

Havelina 100, Jonathan Ray. Jonathan is currently an unsponsored athlete, maybe, hopefully, that

will change soon, based in Boulder, Colorado.

And in addition to memorable moments during training and last weekend's race, we also talk

about John's approach to in philosophy around social media, environmentalism, and we also talk a fair bit

about his prior experience at the Western States 100, where he is returning next June.

We last chatted with John after his win at Bandera earlier this year, and I've been looking for an excuse to have him on the pot again.

Thankfully, here it is.

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Thank you, thank you, thank you for your consideration,

for your support. And with that, let's get started. Jonathan Ray, welcome back to the single track podcast. It's great to have you here. Hey, Finn. I'm back. I won another golden ticket.

I was just going to say, I was racking my brain, and there's going to be somebody out there in the

audience who will fact check me, but you have to be one of the few people ever to secure two

golden tickets in a single calendar year with 2022 Bandera and 2022, Havillian, does anybody else

come to mind off the top of your head? Yeah, I was curious about that.

I didn't do any research on it, so I don't know.

Yeah, we'll have to throw it out to the audience at some point.

I mean, I'm sure there's people that have done like back-to-back Black Canyons or back-to-back

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