Welcome back or welcome to the single track podcast. I'm your host, Finn Melanson, and before we get

started, I wanted to pay our respects to Megan Kimmel earlier today. Just before recording,

we learned of her tragic passing. She was just 45 years old. We don't know any of the details.

No official cause of death has been disclosed. But for those that

followed the sport closely, especially in the 2010s, you know of her illustrious career among many

other accolades. She was the two-time winner of the Broken Arrow 46K, a Pike's Peak Marathon

marathon champion, a TNF 50 San Francisco champion, Marathon Dumont Blanc champion,

Sky Racing Champion, among many other contributions.

She'll be remembered as one of the most talented and decorated and influential mountain runners of the decade.

For sure, our thoughts and prayers are with her family at this time we are back this is the 40th

that's right 4-0 the 40th edition of the long run archives joined by friends colleagues

brett hornig jeff colt brett how are you doing today 40 episodes that's that's a lot of

that's a lot of long run i, if we're 90 minutes to two hours

per episode, you could now queue up all 40 and run a decent sized ultramarathon and listen to us the

whole time with no repeats.

One of the questions I have is how, like, I think we've had new stuff each episode, but have there been any, have we kind of gotten into the spin zone and just started to recycle

talking points? I have no idea. Now I'm self-conscious because, for sure. Have you guys ever heard of

Judd Apatow? Because you guys have recycled Judd-A-Patow movie quotes.

Like it is, you know, number one plastics.

I mean, you know what else has gotten...

Filling a full recycling bin every episode.

You know what else has gotten thrown on the Longman Archives hamster wheel.

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