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I'm your host Finn Melanson and this is a 2022 Havillena 100 pre-race interview with Pat

Regan, a professional trail runner for Hoka based in Savannah, Georgia.

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All right, Pat Regan, it's an absolute pleasure to meet and to have you on the single track podcast.

Hey, Finn, thanks for having me, buddy. I've been listening to your cast for a while and it's nice

to be on. Right on. I appreciate it. And yeah, it's our first time meeting, like literally right here,

right now. And I love to always get just a little bit of background on folks before we dive into the main topic, which in this case is Havillina. One thing I'm curious, you're based in Savannah, Georgia, and I guess my question is,

why is that home base? What makes it a great place to live in train? Because I look at your

resume on ultra sign up and elsewhere, and a lot of your focus is on these races out west and even

internationally. So talk about what makes it a great place to live and

train. Yeah, a bit unconventional, right? Not your traditional spot to live for maybe a mountain

ultra trail athlete. I probably consider myself more of a road or flatter ultra athlete. So it is a

great place for me in that way because I can train on the roads year

round. It's a pretty nice place to train on bikes for cross training as well. If you're

willing to drive a bit to get on some dirt roads, which I'm getting more into gravel, and that's

kind of fun as well. I landed here in 2010, 11, and that was after I was playing more in country blues, doing more busking, smaller shows and tours around the country, living in the winter in New Orleans, landed in Savannah with kind of the fiddle player in my band.

And I never really left here.

Like when I first got here, I was working in some bands after my days doing the music and

migrant farm work.

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