Hey, everybody. How is it going? Hope you're doing great. Dylan Bowman here. Thanks so much for tuning into the Pillars podcast.

Today, I want to do something a little bit different and just talk about some of the news

and happenings in the great sport of trail and ultra running. Just provide some general

commentary and give you the fans of the sport a little insight

into how I view some of the current happenings in our sport. And when I first started this

podcast, now more than a year ago, this was one of the things that I was most excited about doing,

something that I don't really think exists, at least to the standard that I'd like to see,

that is just general commentary, analysis, and information about what's happening in the sport

in audio format.

And it's something that I genuinely enjoy doing that is just talking about the sport.

As a sports radio buff and rabid fan of athletes and events and everything that makes

all running great.

And obviously, of course, in 2020, there was not a whole lot to provide analysis on,

but I really do think there is enough material now to talk about.

So I hope you will entertain me while I spend this episode just providing a self-indulgent monologue on current

events in our sport. I know there have been too many Dylan heavy episodes recently with the

recent Pillars announcement and the Ask Me Anything. I promise. I have some awesome guests coming up.

In fact, I might put out two episodes this week. And we will continue to have many more dialogues

than monologues going forward. I promise. But for now, you're stuck with me and me alone. And the first thing that I

want to talk about, of course, was the Hoka Project Carbon X event that was held in the Phoenix area

over the weekend. I'm sure anybody listening to this, at least has a general idea of what happened over the weekend. But just

to recap, of course, Hoka One of the biggest, greatest sponsors in the sport of Trail and

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