Welcome back or welcome to the single track podcast. I'm your host Finn Melanson and this is another episode of our UTMB pre-race interview series.

We are chatting with Taylor Nowlin, a professional trail runner for Adidas Terricks based in Spokane, Washington, ahead of her race this year at UTMB CCC.

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Taylor Nowlin, welcome back to the single track podcast. Thank you so much, Finn. I'm happy to be here. So last time we talked,

you had just secured a golden ticket to Western States via Black Canyon. Fast forward a few months,

you had an excellent race, at least by my account

at Western States, the top 10, seventh overall. I think it was your first 100-miler, if I remember

correctly. And what were the biggest takeaways? I'm curious. Oh, man. The biggest, I think the

first biggest one was just like the confidence that comes from knowing that I can

actually finish that. I think that I was so nervous going in to 100 just trying to like, I don't

know, figure out how to run that far and how to handle all the logistics. So I definitely was

really happy when I just crossed the finish line. Are there any things, and obviously with each 100-mile, you learn a ton, and there's things that, like, in retrospect, do you wish you tweaked?

But you're not doing that again at UT&B, like you're doing CCC, but it's still a big race.

Are there any adjustments you're looking to make that you've maybe worked on in training for this one?

I think the biggest one is, I mean, for Western states, I didn't know that I could go that far.

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