Hey, everyone. Thanks for tuning in. Welcome. Welcome, course, I am Dylan Bowman, and I am grateful for your

attention for yet another episode. This week, I am excited to share a conversation with Keeley Henninger.

Keeley, of course, is a pro-altur runner for Nike. She is also a researcher and scientist employed by Nike. And generally,

she is just a really interesting and engaging human being, the exact type of person I'd like to talk to on this show.

Keeley lives here in Portland, Oregon, though she's been on the road quite a bit, as you'll hear us talk about.

And she is now in the final stages of her preparation to tackle her first 100-mile race

at the Western States 100 in just five weeks. It is coming up so fast. So, of course, we talk

all about Western States and her goals and preparation going into it.

But we also spend a lot of time on Keeley, the person, and the things that she is passionate about.

We start by just covering her personal and athletic background and then go into her career progression a bit. We talk about her experience with injury.

We talk about body image and women's health topics. So there's a lot of deeper discussion

coupled with the fun pre-Western States banter. And speaking of Western States over on

the Pillars YouTube channel,

we just released a really cool new video,

documenting one of Keely's key workouts leading into the race.

It's a three by 15 minute uphill tempo workout,

and the video turned out awesome.

Shout out to Pillars Creative Guru Ryan Throer

for putting it together.

If you haven't checked it out yet, please do so.

There's a link in the show notes here,

or you can just go to our YouTube channel.

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