Tom Evans | 2023 Western States 100 Pre-Race Interview

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Finn Melanson

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🗓️ 18 June 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Tom Evans returns to the podcast to discuss his preparation for the 2023 Western States 100. Timestamps: (1:53) - what Tom is optimizing for at this year's Western States(5:40) - liquid calories, high carb, high caffeine(8:30) - heat protocols(13:15) - course strategy, pace charts(22:57) - race goals, expectations(26:12) - race psychology Sponsors: Rabbit - use code Singletrack20 at checkout on their website (https://www.runinrabbit.com/discount/SINGLETRACK20) to get 20% off your next orderF...

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0:00.0	Welcome back or welcome to the Single Track Podcast.
0:03.0	I'm your host, Finn Melanson, and in this episode, I'm talking with Tom Evans ahead of the
0:08.0	2023 Western States 100.
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0:22.4	With that, let's get started. Tom Evans, welcome back to the single track podcast.
0:29.3	Hey, Finn. How are you doing? Thanks for having me back. I'm doing great. We're recording this on
0:35.4	the Saturday before Western States, before the race, and I'm
0:38.7	starting to feel the vibes. Things are exciting here in Olympic Valley. How about you?
0:42.8	Yeah, super exciting. I'm not quite an Olympic Valley. I'm in Phoenix at the moment. Just sort of
0:49.2	on my final little bit of heat prep before the race. Even though it's not looking like it's that hot,
0:57.3	typically I think Western States has got the, yeah, the vibe is when people say it's a
1:02.4	cool year, it's still not cool, it's still actually hot.
1:07.9	So yeah, no, I'm super excited and it's, yeah, it's 5pm now. So, yeah, I'm not entirely sure where I'll be on the course in seven days' time, but hopefully significantly close to the finish than the start.
1:21.2	Well, I want to start this conversation by going back in time to 2019. You got third place at the Western States 100. You ran 14, 59,
1:30.7	44. That's a superb debut at this race by any measure. But in a retrospect, and after you've had
1:37.5	time to analyze the day, I'd love for you to compare what you were optimizing for on that day, compared to what you're
1:45.4	optimizing for heading into this year.
1:47.5	And I think I'm most curious to know if anything has changed between those two years for you.
1:53.3	Yeah.
1:54.8	Great question.
1:55.9	Firstly, answering the second half of the question, is anything changed?
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