Hello and welcome to the well. As always, I am your host, Dylan Bowman. And as always, I am very glad to have

you here. This week, we're going to be talking to Katie Shide. Katie is an American ultra runner who

lives in Europe. And in just the past couple of years, Katie went from being a relatively unknown runner on the scene to really, in my

opinion, one of the best and most consistent athletes on the international circuit today.

And even though that is the case, it still strikes me that Katie is a bit underrated, I think, especially here in her home country,

where I think she's less of a household name in ultra circles than the women who primarily live and race stateside.

And I think a really good example of this is in the ultra runner of the year voting

from 2019, where Katie finished in ninth place overall, well below, where I think her season

should have landed her. And I'm a Uroy voter myself, and I think it's no secret that

the voting committee probably has a little bit of a

bias towards performances that take place in the U.S. But this was a really great opportunity

to get to know Katie a little better given that she lives way over on the other side of the

Atlantic.

So in this conversation, we talk about her unique background and her consistent orientation towards the outdoors going back to her childhood in Maine.

We talk about her quick and impressive ascent in the sport, her training environment in

Europe, and how that has helped her to be successful. We talk about her amazing season in 2019

and the personal project that she did this summer in 2020 that combined both trail running

and mountaineering, which her main sponsor on running,

just released a cool video about which you can find in the show notes.

So we talk about a lot of cool things.

And even though Katie has already accomplished really great stuff in her short time in the sport,

it's really my opinion that she has a super,

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