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We're back. It's Tuesday, June 23rd, another day of our studio-based coverage of the

26 Western States 100 here in Olympic Valley, California. And we are honored for the first time ever in person to be joined by Killian Jornette. Killing, how are you doing? Yeah, thank you for having me. Big fan of the show and nice to be here. You want to let us off, Brett? Or you just jumping straight into Western States. We can talk about whatever. We can talk about avocados.

We can talk about broken arrow.

We can talk about anything.

I guess the first question that I've been very curious about, when did you know that you

wanted to come back and race Western States this year?

Um, when I crossed the finish line last year.

Really?

Yeah.

It was...

I mean, like, I knew that I didn't want to do a season, like to chase a golden ticket

for what that implies to training, to other races, to other projects, to traveling.

So, finishing top 10, I had the opportunity to come back.

And it was like, yeah, I thought that it would be much worse the experience.

Because when I raised here in 2010 and 2011, like, I felt a completely destroyed.

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