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Chris Kilmurray, welcome back, fresh off some travel, I'm guessing, from a pretty insane weekend in snowshoe.

Yeah, it couldn't be any more fresh off to travel. I think midnight arrival a month in Ann last night.

Seven hours sleeping, here we are.

Amazing.

What a race that was, though, hey?

Like, across the board, it was a pretty exciting weekend in snow shoe.

Yeah, insane weekend in snow shoe.

I got half of FMD annoy me am in the background. Thanks guys.

Yeah, as per standard, standard snowshoe weekend. Like, whatever do we expect of a snow shoe,

only that, any drama, you know? So the women's racing was really exciting. The top three separated by 0.6, Tanyan 4th, 2.6 back, Gloria Scarsie with another podium. And then obviously the men's racing is kind of unprecedented. You couldn't have written it. He couldn't have bet on it. It wouldn't have even been in the book he used to bet on, I think, you know, an Irish one, too with O'Sheen and Ronan. So yeah, and Dakota on the podium, two junior men, first and second,

two Americans at home on the podium the day before. The whole thing is just, there you go.

Yeah, as an Irish rider yourself, like pretty exciting to see those boys kind of backing up what they've always I guess had

in the tank it's just never quite come to fruition so super excited to see those two boys execute

yeah like honest I suppose Ronan's you know if you talk about Ronan first he's just he's been

known as the wild practice guy the last couple of seasons as he's as he's matured a little bit, definitely got stronger. His approach to riding has become more, more possible as he's able to take the big hits and impacts. And he got his first podium last year in Snowshoe, backed up in another podium again this year in Snowshoe. And he's been just getting a little bit more consistent and even talking to him after the race he was saying he's starting to figure out what his pace is that's good enough

to you know to be near the front end of the field so he's starting to get a field for that now which

is amazing then obviously Ushin um junior world champ 2020 kind of like Reese a lot of people and

cammy balanche a lot of people were like ah yeah, yeah, mud, raised, COVID, nah, nah, nah, nah. But Reese came good afterwards, you know, winning World Cups and being one of the top dogs. Most certainly Cammy did. And now O'Sheen's back again, there you go. And he's had a tough time, I think, the last 18 months or so with little small injuries and setbacks and everything else. and regardless of whether you're one time or two-time Junior World Champ, the transition to elites is never straightforward. It's your own journey, you know, and it's not really, look, it's not taking Oshin much longer than it's taken Valley Hull to win a race, basically. So obviously, Valley's won a lot more now. But yeah, it's cool to see it. It's just

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