All right, we are back day five celebrating UTMB week here in Chamon, France,

joined by frequent guest friend Katie Scheid.

Before we get started, though, a little bit of Station ID.

And thanks to our partners, NAC, Goreware, Raid, and Norda for literally figuratively

keeping the lights on here, making this possible.

So head over to the show notes, click the links, and check out their stuff.

Katie, how's it going today?

It's good to be here with your, seeing you with your Maine shirt on.

It was a nice welcome in the middle of chimney.

For anyone that is super into sports marketing or is curious about Maine or just wants to like understand some of the coolest phenomena going on right now, go check out Maine Heart of Pine.

It's this minor league soccer team that is all the rage there.

I was gifted this jersey and I promised the person who gifted it that if and when we talked to Katie this week, we would bond over Maine and I would

wear this live to just spread the gospel of the team. I'm a bit disappointed. It might be replacing

the C-Dogs, which was my childhood minor league baseball team. Yeah, we were trying to recall all

the teams out there. And I don't know, this is the trendy one right now.

Okay. Talking about trail running, first question, are you, are you happy that you're not racing next Saturday here?

Yeah, it is. I was wondering actually where this interview is going to go since I'm not racing.

Like, what am I really going to, what do I have to share here?

But, yeah, it's interesting.

This is the first time I have not done a UT&B event since 2017 when I came to support Jean-Aont at his first CCC.

Obviously, the COVID year doesn't count, but since then I've been on a UT&B event every year.

And this is the first time I am not racing.

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