Welcome back or welcome to the Single Track Podcast.

I'm your host, Finn Milanson, and this is the first episode in a series called Euro Track,

where I'm joined by Katie Scheid and Brett Hornig to analyze key races on the European Ultra Trail Running Circuit.

In this inaugural episode, we talk about the athletes that American fans might overlook, the key training hubs

in the region, the races that matter most on the continent, and differences in training,

racing, and sports media over there before previewing Transvolcano at the end of the

conversation.

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let's get started. This is the first episode of I think what's going to be a five or six part series we're

calling Eurotrack, which at least for the first episode, we're going to do a little bit of an

intro to the European ultra trail running scene. Katie Scheid had, we had spoken a couple months back,

and she had suggested the idea that it might be good, given the

track we're taking with this podcast to have a recurring episode where fans of the show,

followers of the show, can just be more educated on what's happening in that part of the world.

I thought it was a great idea.

And I think what we're going to do here today is spend a little bit of time just providing more context for the scene. And then I think later in the episode,

we'll talk about the next most important race on the circuit, which is Transville-Conia.

So also joined by colleague Brett Hornie because we're all recording live from Flagstaff Az right now.

But first off,

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