Welcome back or welcome to the Single Track Podcast.

I'm your host, Finn Melanson, and in this episode, we are talking with Matt Daniels,

professional trail runner for Nike based in Boulder, Colorado, preparing for the 2022 UTMB CCC.

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Matt Daniels, it is a pleasure to finally meet, and it's great to have you on the single track

podcast. Thanks, Finn. Pretty stoked to be on, and yeah, glad to finally meet you here.

I do like setting some context for the event that you're about to compete in, and I think we should

start with, like, just your trajectory in the sport because as a fan,

when I look at your career, really up until the pandemic, you were taking the sport by storm.

You registered just some absolutely mind-boggling performances at Black Canyon.

You had a great Western States.

Can you talk about what you were going through, like during the pandemic and maybe through

2021 from like a mindset and an injury standpoint that kept you from being at your best?

Yeah, definitely.

I mean, I think the pandemic was pretty tough on everybody.

I think that goes without saying. And not having the opportunities to race a lot was tough on everybody. I think that goes without saying and not having the

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