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early access to the shoe. I've put a bunch of training miles in it. It's the real deal.

It is another day of our annual studio coverage based out of Olympic Valley, California for

the Western States 100, joined by friends, colleagues, Leah Yingling, Brett Hornig, and someone who we have

never had on the podcast before, and I can't think of a better place to have that first

interview, Lottie Brinks.

Woo! It's very sweet.

Are you excited?

I am very excited. Yeah, I've been excited for like what feels like months now, so I'm

glad it's finally here.

I'm sure Brett and Leah are going to have a lot of questions. The burning question in my mind right now is, and I've

never asked this to anyone that has had to deal with this, but tickets roll down all the time.

You took sixth place at CCC last year. I think it was maybe the best women's race in all of

2025, like the deepest,

the most thrilling. Talk about what it feels like to learn that you're racing Western States

like three months out. It was, it was, I wouldn't call it a shock, but I didn't count, like, it wasn't like on my radar that that

would happen. I've won a golden ticket race before where I got my first entry into States,

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