Welcome back or welcome to the Single Track Podcast. I'm your host Finn Melanson and in this episode we are talking with Tim Ferricks, a professional trail runner for Kraft based out of Flagstaff, Arizona, ahead of the 2023 Bandera 100K.

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Tim Ferricks, welcome to the single track podcast.

Yeah, thanks for having me on, Finn.

Yeah, first time.

It's good to join you.

First time, and I'm excited, man.

I think it's going to be a really exciting race.

I do want to ask you a couple of questions about your background since it's your first time on the pod.

You have obviously registered some of the best performances in our sport in the last six to seven years.

Lake Sonoma in 2016 comes to mind

Transville Kanye in 2017 the North Face 50 in San Francisco as you head into this

Black Canyon race where is your fitness level and your mindset compared to like

those years in the sport yeah yeah yeah I think that's that's a fair question. I think

the last few years have been a bit lackluster compared to like 16, 17, even a little bit of 18

for me. But yeah, I think fitness-wise, I feel like i'm approaching like 2018 fitness uh i felt like

or for black canyon anyway 2018 i came off of north face and had like some of the best

training in my life early 2018 um was climbing really really strong and um yeah I just felt felt really good in

training but I think I kind of over over did things a little bit whereas I think I'm a

little on the other end of the spectrum right now kind of still progressing getting

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