All right, folks, welcome to Rest Day, our weekly news show breaking down the latest happenings in trail running.

There was a massive story that broke on Friday

afternoon. And we are lucky to have the subject of that story here with us on rest day before we

introduce him. Corinne Malcolm, happy Sunday to you. It's not Monday this time.

Happy Sunday. I had to send you a text from my run the other day saying, hey, I heard

we're doing rest day on Sunday because I listened to the Dan Green Kocodona trailgating session.

Give me the deets. So here we are. Yeah, it's because we don't want to interfere with that

Coca-Donough live stream. We're going to be locked in starting tomorrow morning at 5 a.m. And as I understand it,

our guests might be out there on the course a little bit this week. We'll get to hear that here

in a second. But of course, a big and warm welcome. And thank you for joining the great Jim Walmsley

here on Rest Day. Welcome, buddy. Nice to see you. Hey, Debo. Hey, Corinne. Good to talk with you and catch up.

So a quick programming note here. Tim Tolbson was due to join us too, but he's got the crew meeting,

the crew briefing with none other than Sally McCray, who he's going to help shepherd across that

Cocodona 250 course. So we miss you, Timmy T, but we will see you very soon.

That leaves Corinne and I alone to chit chat with Jim. Jim, obviously the people want to know

everything about the news. You being added to the Western State start list now eight weeks

away from a race that you have won four times where you own the

course record and where you have repeatedly blown all of our minds over the course of your

amazing career. Where I want to start is the response to the posts that went out on Friday.

As I imagine, you probably had a little bit of internal tension about

this and the way you got in. So what did it feel like to see this response, which was overwhelmingly

positive and supportive? Yeah. I think I was a bit self-conscious about things, not racing in.

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