Hey, fam, welcome to Western States Week, the best week of the year.

Here is the audio from our third annual pre-race live interview show that I co-host with

Corinne Malcolm from the heart of Olympic Valley.

This is the morning session from Thursday, June 22nd, our first of three sessions over

the next 24 hours to help build the hype for the 50th Western

States taking place on Saturday.

For those who can't join us live in person or on YouTube, or for those who like me,

simply enjoy the listening experience more.

As usual, we are making the audio available here in the podcast feed.

Today's guests include Craig Thornley, Diana Fitzpatrick, Katie Shide, Dakota Jones,

Emily Hoggood, Ryan Montgomery, Heather Jackson, and Hela Sidibe.

We'll play all eight interviews back to back to back.

So I hope you enjoy hearing from these great humans and athletes ahead of the big race.

We will post the two remaining sessions here as well as soon as those are completed.

But for now, please enjoy the show.

Okay, good morning, everybody. Welcome to the 2023 Western States 100. We are under 48 hours from the kickoff of this year's race, the 50th Western States. It is so good to be back. My name is Dylan Bowman, joined of course, by my co-host for the weekend.

Corinne Malcolm, Corinne, good morning. Good morning. And we have a couple of very esteemed guests joining

us to kick off the show today. We'll introduce them in just a second. Before we get to it, a big thank

you to Hoka, not only the presenting sponsor of the Western States 100, but also the presenting sponsor of our live broadcast, which Corinne and I will co-host at least for the first 20 hours on Saturday morning, starting at 4.15 a.m. It will be a 30-hour long broadcast, and Hoka really is the team that makes that possible.

They also make this new pre-race live interview show possible, too.

So a big thank you to Hoka as well.

On with the show.

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