All right, welcome back or welcome to the single track podcast. I'm your host, Finn Melanson,

and in this episode, Max Jolliffe returns to the show, this time two weeks ahead of the 2026,

Kogadurna 250. We spend a bit of time at various parts in the conversation talking about his

preparation, his race here last year. I was thinking about race strategy this year, all that good

stuff, gear,

you know, nutrition. But we also talk on a bunch of other topics. He was just at the BPN

Backyard Ultra last weekend. So we get his take, you know, his takeaways from that experience.

Pretty interesting. We get into apparel design talk. He just quit his job at Hurley.

He was there for 15 years.

He's now a full-time professional athlete in trails.

We talk a bit about that.

Yeah, it's quite wide-ranging.

And yeah, I mean, this is part of our ongoing Kokadona 250 coverage.

We just had Courtney on the show last week.

Leah, Brett and I will be doing a preview

episode of Kocodona later this week. We'll be back on the Mike's post event for a recap.

Yeah, we love Kocodona. It's a great time of year. I do want to get to a point in time where

we're treating this event with the same level of focus, hype, dedication, etc.,

as we do for Western States and UTMB.

And yeah, before we get started, you'll notice at the outset, we sort of cold open.

Max entered the recording room.

The conversation was kind of already flowing.

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