Welcome back or welcome to the single track podcast. I am your host, Finn Melanson, and this is the second episode in a mini series we are calling the long run archives. I'm joined again by my co-host Brett Hornig from Trails and Tarmac, and we follow the usual format. We start by brainstorming the tools and data that could improve analysis and commentary on races in our sport.

We do a Strava find of the week, our hot takes of the week, our best what ifs, and we finish up with some commentary on ultra running related news.

One thing to note before diving in, this was the first episode I have ever recorded with

AirPods and in the process I made the rookie mistake of taking the volume off of my standard

podcast mic so the audio is below standard.

Lesson learned.

But good content, I think you'll enjoy it with that. Let's get started.

Brett Horning, welcome back to the single truck podcast. Hey, Finn. How's it going? It's going good.

And I got to say this type of episode that we do, I guess we're calling it the long run archives

at the moment. It got the first one that we did about a month ago. We'll the long run archives at the moment. It got the first

one that we did about a month ago. We'll link to it in the show notes. It got pretty solid reception.

I think it's a relatively unique format here in the trail running media space. So we're doubling

down. We're doing episode two. And we got a pretty exciting lineup of topics here.

What do you think?

Yeah, I mean, there's always something to be said

in the running world, whether it actually matters or not.

There's always something to be said.

So the first thing we got here is we're going to have a little bit of a debate.

And maybe it's not a debate.

Maybe we both agree on this, but the topic is how do we make it easier and more

substantive to analyze races in our sport, like Western States and Hard Rock and UTMB.

And I think I'll lead off with a little bit of a tangent because I've been thinking about this for quite some time.

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