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I'm your host, Finn Melanson, and this is a 2022 Havelina 100 pre-race interview with Nick Curry.

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in the show notes. With that, let's get started. All right, Nick Curry, welcome back to the

single track podcast. Yeah, good to be back. So I'm going to be long-winded here for a moment

because the last time you were here on the show,

you were coming off Desert Solstice.

You had just set the 24-hour record on the American side.

And we spent a lot of time talking about your philosophy of negative splitting when it comes to race strategy.

So if listeners have not checked that one out, we'll link to it in the show notes.

And there's going to be a lot, much more of a discussion there.

But I'm bringing it back up here again because you published a race report a little bit after we recorded that episode.

And there's a quote I want to touch on before we get into Havelina stuff.

You say, and I'm going to read it here,

quote, the best runners in the world show clear potential early on, and if they're going to make

it big, they do it within a couple of years. I'd already pushed my limits well over a decade,

and I was plateauing away from anything notable, or so I thought, end quote. And I loved reading that. Can you go

into a bit more detail about what you said there? And I think I want to talk about it because it

brings up one of the most interesting aspects of our sport where runners are able to kind of reinvent

themselves on the fly at any point. So maybe dig into it a little bit more and like kind of tell the audience what you were thinking

there.

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