Hello, free trail people. How's it going? Hope all as well. Thanks for tuning into the

podcast. Today, our guest

is one of the all-time legends, one of the greats of this era in trail running and one of the

most requested guests in podcast history. Mr. Zach Miller is finally here for a fun interview

all about what he's been up to recently.

Zach will need no introduction to most of you, but for those newer to the sport, you may have never had the opportunity to see this incredible athlete, take the start line and race in his

trademark, aggressive, heroic style, often resulting in the most entertaining and impressive

performances that have inspired trail runners around the world. Unfortunately, Zach has been

off the racing circuit for the last few years due to injury. In fact, until running and winning

the Andorra by UTMB race at the end of June,

Zach hadn't even started an Ultra since UTMB of 2019, nearly three full years ago.

Of course, Zach has done a bunch of interviews over the course of his career,

so I wanted to orient our conversation around the injury cycle itself and sort of see

how he's emerged on the other side with a new perspective.

We talked all about the injury that he's been dealing with, the surgery that he had performed

in 2020, the emotional toll of being on the shelf for so long as a pro athlete and how he's

battled through, never giving up on the belief that he'd be able to get back to competing and

performing at his best. Like I said, Zach made his triumphant return to racing about a month ago

at the end of June by

winning the super tough 105 kilometer race in Andorra as part of the UTMB World Series.

In doing so, successfully punching his ticket back to the UTMB Mont Blanc, which he intends to do later this month. Get your popcorn ready. As usual,

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