I'm Pace McElvin and this is the WithPace podcast.

Rain during the race is not such a terrible thing, but I think worst case scenario is rain before.

If it has like a chance to just dry a little bit and get

peanut buttery, it's the absolute worst. And I think, I don't know, there's a question

mark as to whether two days, you know, two and a half days is enough time for it to be dry

or if it's going to be the worst conditions

it could possibly be.

Hey, everyone and welcome to Unbound Week.

We've done our Unbound Preview episode a little differently every year.

And this year I plan to do kind of a data forward, info forward solo episode, just crunching a bunch of numbers and

trying to deliver all the facts before race day. But the more I thought about it, the more

I felt that having two voices, two perspectives kind of going back and forth conversationally

is a lot more interesting.

But then I was really, you know, not sure who to bring on for that.

You know, all the athletes are kind of hunkered down, focused,

probably not all that interest in divulging too much of their pre-race thoughts just a few days beforehand.

So I was struggling a little.

But then Dylan Johnson broke his leg.

Fortunately, he was game. And though, you know, we're both sidelined and this is not the

circumstances under which I'd like to have him on the podcast for the first time, I think it

ended up being pretty fun. And he was a really good sport,

um, despite, you know, still being in some pretty significant discomfort. Um, we spent a little bit of

...