All right, we're on. I'm recording. You are. Hey, we are. When have we had a backdrop for a podcast like that?

That's incredible. There is the the tram going up the mountain right now. We're in squat. We are in squat. See you in squat.

Hashtag is today. It is Friday before the start of Western states. One hundred twenty eighteen. We just finished the pre race meeting and met all the the elite runners and that room was packed. We did some heat training actually.

And I tell you what there is some electricity in the air isn't there guys. You know, I was just talking to a runner about that that.

More than any other race. This race has like a two day three day pre electric sense in the air. It's palpable. Yeah, you really can feel it.

There's a lot of special things about ultra running. But when it comes to Western states, there's an energy kind of vortex. It just pulls you in and it comes from stepping into this village with all the vendors and all the hopefuls and all the finally we're going to get in and get this thing started.

We learned in December. We're in the race. And now we're here anticipation probably more anticipation for this race than I would argue any other in the world.

And we've got some good good competition. AJ W's get a lens some of his expertise and Sally will join us and I understand she's on her way. So we'll start with the men. She's doing some fart legs.

But let's let's get some of the business out of the way. Let's do a couple of ads and then let's get going on this thing. Let's talk about one of our newer partners path projects.

We received an email that was copied. We're not going to mention names because we didn't get permission. But this person was saying how they had heard about path projects from the trail runner nation podcast.

And how we kind of hyped it up. And he said it was worth every bit of the hype. He tried them on and they were amazing. Right Andy?

Oh my goodness. I got a couple pairs of their shorts and some of their tops and it is first rate stuff. And especially and it seems so obvious. But this underwear.

The bass liner. The bass liner with then the shorts that don't have the liner in. It's just brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. I can't think of running in another short.

It is. They're amazing. What are you going to say Freeman? I wasn't going to say anything because I really don't know what to say. And so I'll just pass the baton. Where did they go to get them?

Well, before that, I need to say that we have some exciting news breaking news. They're coming out with some new gear. Okay. And in fact, we have some we've been told that they're in the mail.

They're a shorter version of the shorts. I think the ones we have are the five inch inseam. They have a three inch inseam.

So if you like a little to show a little more leg like like Don does. Yeah. These are the shorts for you. Where do they go to get them?

Scott. They go a couple different places. They can go to pathprojects.com or they can go to our partners page. And there's a banner there. Just click on that and you'll link on over.

Next step. Who else we doing next? I think we should talk about Lakey. Lakey. We're sending some Lakey chairs right now. I didn't know they made chairs. Well, you know.

When you experiment building the best pole in the world, you have extra parts at the end. You need to use the other poles that you used to experiment with.

Yeah, those are the experimental beta testing type. They made a chair out of them and it works fantastic. So you can use the tracking poles during the race. And then when you're done, you can sit in their chair.

Absolutely. Love Lakey pole. 20% off is the deal for trail runner nation members. They can get that by going to our partners page and clicking on over. That's the only thing I know about that. And finally Scott.

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