Hello and welcome to Western States 100 Race Week. You are listening to the Pillars

podcast. I am your host, Dylan

Bowman, and today we are bringing you the audio of some pre-race interviews we did live from

Olympic Valley with some of the top athletes in this year's race. These are shorter interviews,

played back to back, with a total of six guests today.

Those guests are as follows in chronological order, Jeff Browning, Matt Daniels,

Ruth Croft, Tim Tollifson, Beth Pascal, and Jared Hazen. It is a star star studded group. These are some awesome interviews.

I hope you all enjoy them. And just as a reminder, Western States will have live stream coverage

of the race all day on Saturday. Myself and Corinne Malcolm will be your co-hosts, so I hope you all will tune in to the Western

States 100 YouTube channel all day on Saturday. Clear your schedules. This is going to be an

amazing race, and you don't want to miss out. I'll link to the YouTube channel in the show notes,

so make sure you subscribe. Okay, here's the Western States live

pre-race interview show from Wednesday, June 23rd, live from Olympic Valley, starting with

the man, the myth, the legend, Mr. Jeff Browning. Yes, Thank you. Ow!

Welcome to the 2021 Western States 100 live from here in Olympic Valley, only steps away from

where Gordy Ainsley took his legendary steps up this mountain in 1974. We are back after a year off, 2021, and we are so,

so excited. We are joined by my co-host for the week, Corinne Malcolm. Corinne say hello.

Hi, everyone. Our first guest, of course, probably needs no introduction. Mr. Jeff Browning.

We'll get to you in a minute.

Before we get to, just a few things to mention. We are supported this week, all week by Hoka Oneoneone,

the title sponsor of the Western States 100. We thank them for their support, for their initiative

to get the digital coverage going this year. We are so thankful. Also,

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