All right, welcome back or welcome to the Single Track podcast.

I'm your host Finn Melanson and in this episode we are talking with Katie Shide,

a professional trail runner for the North Face following her win at this year's Ultra Trail de Mont Blanc.

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next order there as well. With that, let's begin. All right, Katie Shide, it's great to have you

on the single track podcast. Welcome.

Thank you.

I don't want to bury the lead. We should celebrate your UTNB win here off the bat.

I do want to cover a couple other topics in our conversation, but let's talk about UTNB first.

How are you feeling about a weaker move from the race?

I actually feel a lot better than I expected.

In the past, I've just been, like, completely knocked out for a long time after the race.

Actually, after other races, too, but more notably, UTMB.

And this time I, yeah, maybe it's kind of the high of the result that helps. Also the fact that I was racing for four less hours than past years, but I definitely feel a lot like fresher and

with with a bit more energy than normal. Right on. Well, huge kudos to you. And we will, I promise,

go into depth about what the day looked like and how you achieved victory and whatnot. But, you know, I've been aware of your time on the scene now for a while. And there's always a, there's been a bunch of questions I've always wanted to ask you. And I guess the first is, you know, we've been talking recently about Jim Wamsley

making this big move over to France to fully invest in UTMB and the Euro racing scene.

But before there was Jim Wamsley, there was you.

Like, you made the investment to move over there five or six years ago.

You've been based there ever since.

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