Welcome back to another edition of the long run archives. I am Finn Melanson, joined by friends,

colleagues, Brett Hornig and Jeff Colt. A lot to discuss today. So we're going to get right

into it, starting with the Gorge Waterfalls, 100K, 50K, 30K recap. So much to talk about. Jeff, I think

first we have to pay homage to your amazing performance there. Where do you want to take this?

With a thank you.

Yeah, it felt really good to have a strong effort and to have a race that like I felt like

actually went according to plan.

Turns out, you know, we've all learned this before.

Sometimes you have a great day and other people have better days.

And that is out of my control.

But everything that was in my control felt great.

And daybreak put on an amazing race.

I think Free Trail did a great job, making it engaging and entertaining.

And the community was all time time and my takeaways i do think

the the four runners that were chosen for the u.s team from that event are amazing representatives

for team USA for the world mountain trail running championships and the 80k distance

i feel like you know there's a lot of disruption happening in the sport right now in

terms of performances.

Any given weekend, everything we hold sacred in terms of times, performances, expectations

gets blown up.

You probably had to assume that it was going to take a near perfect day to get on the

team, but did like what Adam and

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