Hello, beautiful people, welcome back to the Pillars podcast. Thank you so much for your time and attention i do always appreciate

you being here of course i am dylan bowman and i am very excited to share this week's episode

which was an absolute joy to record i've sort of inadvertently started a little mini-series here on the podcast recently,

focusing on some of the rising stars in Trail and Ultram Running. Of course, we recently talked to

Drew Holman and Taggart Van Etton, who very much fall into that category. And today, we transition over to the women's side of the sport with another rising star

who is making waves and who has huge potential in her future.

Today, my guest is Katie Asmuth from Mammoth Lakes, California.

Katie has been running Ultras since 2015 and has been successful from the beginning, but it was in

2021 that she really came into her own as an athlete.

She started the year with a convincing victory at the Bandera, 100K in Texas, where she earned a coveted golden ticket

to the great Western States 100, where of course in June of this year, Katie took full

advantage of that opportunity in her Western States debut, where she managed a very strong fifth place finish in one of the

most incredible women's races of all time.

I immediately became a big fan of Katie's and I've very much been looking forward to getting

her on the show.

And honestly, I think this episode is freaking

awesome. I think you guys are really going to love it. Of course, we talk all about Western

States and other running related stuff, but we also talk a lot about human things, motherhood,

self-belief, being service-oriented in our lives, and a lot of other valuable things.

I think you guys are going to love this conversation and become big fans of Katie's as I have

over the past several months. Before we get to the show, a few things to plug. First, if you're new

to trail running or generally

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