The Big Alta 50k Preview Show | Course, Conditions, & Contenders

0:00Hey fam, welcome to free trails trail getting coverage of the 2026 edition of the big Alta presented by Salomon. Very excited to welcome everybody to this three day trail running festival hosted here. In my neighborhood, Marin Wood, California, and of course the race would not be possible without our great friends at Salomon. Let me tell you a bit about the Salomon products I've got in my rotation. First, the SLAB Ultra Glide 2. I love this product. A great well-cushion, well-supported, stable option for long course trail running. This is definitely what I would wear if I were doing the 100K race this weekend myself. We've also got the SLAB Pulsar 4 here, a lower to the ground, lighter weight option that

1:01I'd probably rock if I were doing the 50K or 28K. And finally, potentially my favorite piece of footwear ever invented because Salomon not only crushes it with performance, but also with lifestyle. I got my sick Salomon XT 6s here that I just picked up with my own money. Because I love the product so much, of course, Salomon is a leader not only in performance, but also in pushing mountain sport, culture forward, and we're very grateful to have their partnership at the Big Alta. Hope you guys enjoy our coverage. All right folks, welcome to free trail getting coverage of the Big Alta presented by Salomon in the third edition of our awesome race here in my back yard, Marin Wood, California. Today is our 50K preview show and I'm joined by maybe the foremost authority on the 50K

2:04distance globally, Danny Moreno. Danny, welcome back to the program. Nice to see you. That's quite the compliment that I'll take it. Thank you. I'm excited to be here. Yeah, I love the 50K distance and if there's anything I love more than the distance, it's runnable 50K, so this is right up my alley. It sure is. You're going to help me break it all down here. We were hoping to have you here in person this weekend, but rain check for next year, Danny Moreno going to be on the start list. I'm holding you to that as we kick things off here before we jump into the preview of the 50K race. Ryan's going to bring up our daily show schedule here at the top just so we can give you a quick sense of our coverage throughout the week. If you missed bonus miles last night, make sure you go check that out. I was an amazing show with Corinne and Tim again, plus we had Andy Wacker on to talk all about the 2026 trail team roster. As you see today is the big all to 50K preview tomorrow is the 100K preview the day after

3:04that is the 28K preview all three of those I'm doing with Danny Moreno and then starting on Friday through the weekend, we'll be doing our recap shows and podium interviews for the 50K 100K and 28K in that order. And then Danny on Sunday night, a very important event to close the big all to 2026. You want to know what that is? Yes. I would love to know. It's Dylan's 40th birthday party at Pond Farm Brewing here in San Rafael, California. So anybody come into the big all to your invited to deba's birthday party. Okay. That's a pretty big deal. Just open cast and that invite you're going to have a rowdy party for you. Well, yeah, I don't know. It is a Sunday night of a very long race weekend. So I think a lot of people will be kind of exhausted, but we have had good vibes there each and every year in the three years we've done the big all to and this year should be really fun and conjunction with a monumental birthday for yours truly.

4:05Anyway, moving on, we're going to start the show with some breaking news that is not big all to related. Ryan's going to pull up a post here from tenorief by UTMB. This is an important announcement that they were going to be canceling the event on the Canary Islands this weekend based on very severe weather. As I understand it, they've basically closed the entire island to all outdoor activity and all recreation. Tenorief is also home to the highest mountain in Spain of volcano and the race course did traverse. I believe over the tippy top of that volcano volcano. So very unfortunate announcement here to kick off what was supposed to be an action pact. We can have racing between the big all to check and not key on to tenorief. Tenorief is now off the board and we talked about it a bit last night, so a bit of breaking news to start the show here tonight before we get to the big all to Danny. You might be wondering, how does this impact the professional fields?

5:08We know that there's also keyanti taking place on European soil this weekend. Ryan is going to pull up something that Travis noticed over on the keyanti start list here. What do we notice here for our listening audience, Danny? I mean, first off, again, just shout out to the race organization of tenorief, it's never easy to cancel an event of putting everyone's safety first. So big applause there, but this is mega. If we're going to get a consolation prize, this is probably the top consolation prize you could possibly get and Courtney Dillwalter, that's right folks, the goat, the living goat of trail running is signed up for tenorief or for keyanti, which as you most all of you should know by now is a golden ticket race. That's crazy. I think for me, this is super, super exciting. The first question that I'm sure is coming out of everyone's brain and mouth is if she

6:09gets a ticket, will she accept it? Because right now, she is signed up for Coca-Dona as well as hard rock and she is currently the only human to ever pull off the great triple, right, of Western say it's hard rock in U-T-M-B. Is this the only way she can up herself is by adding an extra hundred miles to the triple that exists currently? Let's not get ahead of ourselves or cast our own wishes and ambitions on Courtney's race calendar. It's probably more a story of convenience being over in Europe and wanting to have a racing stimulus before Coca-Dona, tenorief canceled pivot to keyanti. It makes sense, but it's huge news either way, Courtney Dillwalter, now on the start list for the 120K keyanti, which is Danny said, is a golden ticket race, a very fun storyline. Also, Andreas Reiterer is the other big name who pivoted. It looks like and I would anticipate that we would, I wouldn't be surprised if a couple

7:12more jumped over to get that important early season race stimulus and obviously also take care of some U-T-M-B qualification. Interesting note here at what you said, I think is important, Danny, in that like it's a tough call for the race organization and also I'm sure just massively disappointing a huge economic blow at that to the island and obviously to the race itself. Travis shared that there were 3400 runners from 64 countries planning to take the start line at tenorief. Obviously, safety is of paramount importance. I trust that they made the right decision and our hearts go out to all those disappointed runners who aren't going to get to experience that race this weekend. We have some different weather coming to the Big Alta, but we'll talk about that here in a bit. But as we kick off our 50K preview here after our breaking news at the top, Ryan's going to pull up the course flyover and like I said, there's a three day trail running festival

8:15here at the Big Alta. So the 50K kicks off Friday morning at 8 a.m., the rare Friday morning, 50K here. You'll see the runners traverse up to the top of Loma, Alta, which you see here, dive down into Fairfax, California, climb back up to Loma, Alta here. So this is on the south end of the course and I'll tell you a bit about this loop in a second, back at the top of Loma, Alta, screen back down to the Big Rock aid station, which is right there. And you climb up Big Rock Ridge, which our viewers are seeing here. This is the second highest point in Marin County, Danny, cruising downhill, like a left-hand turn down the chicken shack, fire road to the chicken shack, aid station here, a critical juncture there at about 23 miles, then you climb up the Ponty Ridge trail here, a nice switchbacking shaded single track. I'm sure people enjoy that shade and then you bomb down the Queenstone fire road back

9:16to our finish line here in Marinwood. That's the course, Danny. I got more to share, but what I think people would love to hear from you before we start breaking down the professional fields, if you were to be pinning a bib on this weekend when you see a course that's about 31 miles, 7,000 feet of climbing, how would you be thinking about it competitively strategically? Yeah, I mean, with courses like this, the biggest thing that I've learned is not burning your legs on fast downhills, especially when they're quite runnable. And so the first couple of downhills, I would definitely be finding a pace but also looking at my heart rate to something that's sustainable. It's going to feel easy because gravity is just going to help you, and especially since it's potentially going to be pretty packed down. And so if you can save your legs, I would say like within the first hour and a half, so climb descent and then going into the second climb. And then at that point to me is like, when you start really making your moves and it's

10:17going to be hard to close them because it is such a fast course, once someone separates themselves and even gets like 30, 45 seconds, you have to think of that more as like road running, how hard is it then to run six minute pace versus 6, 15, 6, 20? It gets harder and harder as your legs start to fatigue. Yeah. Yeah. So just to add a bit more local knowledge and detail here, and thanks for sharing this strategic contribution here. I think that's really fascinating. I want to come back to it when we start talking about some of the athletes. Right. If you can pull up the profile, again, so our audience can see what I'm talking about. You'll see it's basically four distinct climbs and descents. You see that loop on the south end of the course there, Danny. That's what I mentioned. I wanted to come back to. That's near the town of Fairfax, which is a famous little community here in Marin. One thing of note, especially for people who have been to the big altar before, is that we've changed the direction of that loop on the south end of the course.

11:19So instead of doing that clockwise, the runners will go counterclockwise. So now if you look at the course profile, that first major descent, you'll notice it's got a steep trajectory to it. Then you have sort of a very fast flat to downhill, a couple of miles before you begin climbing and earnest back up to the top. That climb is longer, but much more gradual back to the top of Loma Altas. So just a note for folks who have done the big altar before, it's an important change in the course here this year. The reason we did it, just touching on it briefly, is because we wanted all the runners to climb the same course that the 100K does on Saturday. We'll talk more about that later, but I'll leave it there for now. One thing that's really challenging about this course, Danny, which you might be able to comment on here, is the line of sight is very long on this race. So these high points, Loma, Altas and Big Rock Ridge are basically these big, green, grassy knolls, but you see the high points almost 2,000 feet on Big Rock Ridge.

12:24And for much of the race for the pro athletes, you can have a direct line of sight at the person in front of you and behind you so you can really gauge what the gaps are and what the body language is without much effort. I don't know if there's something you want to mention there, just in terms of the psychological burden that might hold or how you might be thinking about that as a pro athlete yourself. Is that something that you think about? Oh my God, I love races like that, honestly, where you can see people the entire time. Personally, I'll pick out markers to watch people in front of me and then I'll kind of time and count seconds. So then if I know I'm feeling good, I can get that kind of instant gratification. It's like, oh, last time they were 10 seconds ahead of me. Now they're only six seconds. So if I just stick to what I'm doing and not get too excited, they're eventually going to come back to me. But yeah, I tend to, like, hunting. And so races like this are like, oh, like my dream. Yeah, the painful, painful inverse of that, of course, is when you can see them running

13:26away from you, which would be the case for me to dance for me. If you could pull that back up just a couple more notes for me, that third climb is really going to be the crux for our 50k athletes. That's where Eli has been able to separate himself both years. He's the two-time champion unfortunately. He's not coming to defend again this year, but he has pulled away, especially establishes gap on that third climb. The thing that is challenging about from there to the finish line is that long descent from the top of Big Rock Ridge, the top of the third climb and the high point on our courses, you'll notice that it's a six-mile descent all the way down to the chicken track aid station. But there's like five distinct rollers, which really smash the rhythm of everybody in the field. But certainly like the pro athletes will be managing that themselves too, especially if things are still close on that descent. It's just really, I don't know, when you look at this, it's easy to overlook those grinding rollers on the way.

14:27That's fine. It makes sense that Eli has moved there, because again, just looking at this at a glance as someone who loves this distance, if you can create some distance going up that third climb, and then you're sealing the deal on that down kind of rolling punchy, like really hit those rollers harder than you think to get up and over because that potentially is when you start to get into other people's psyche, because if they can't see you once they're hitting on the same roller, then they're like, oh, that person's gone. When really, they can be right around the corner, so that's quite fun. And also just looking at his paces, that makes sense, because that downhill section, we'll say downhill with some, you know, asterisks and stuff, quotations, was like 30 to 45 seconds slower than the other downhills. And I was curious why, and that makes a lot of sense. That's exactly right. Look, thank you for that in-depth analysis there, going into this travel file and crunching the numbers. But anyway, an important thing for our audience and our runners to remember, that downhill

15:29is smooth underfoot. It's fast underfoot, but those little rollers are definitely grinders. Then you got the- I have a question. Okay, go ahead. Is there any part of the course where you are covered with trees or are you exposed the entire time? Yes, so good, good props. So that final climb is really where you're in the trees for most of it. And we call it Ponte Ridge. You'll see it's very runnable in terms of the grade. And then you see that little mini descent there at the top, and then you have the final little kick. That's actually probably the toughest and steepest section of trail on the 50k course. And it comes like literally the last 200 feet of climbing on the course. So a little bit evil in that respect, but you know that from the top, it's a screaming fast downhill all the way to the finish here in Marinwood. So that's kind of the course. There's two crew accessible aid stations, one at Fox Hollow, which is mile nine and a half and one at Chicken Chak, which is about mile 23. The course records here are held by the Hemmings, Eli ran 319 30 last year, Taberan 404 58.

16:38Both are just ridiculously fast times. And we'll get to the conditions here in a second, the weather conditions, which I think will make things significantly slower here in 2026, but that's more or less a rundown of the 50k race course. Any other questions for me, Danny, as someone who I know hasn't spent a ton of time on these trails, though you are an expert in the 50k? Well, the couple of times that I have been there, I do love it. I will say for folks like it is going to be a hot one, which I think we're going to get a little bit more into. I personally would take full advantage of those aid stations. So if you are lucky enough to have a loved one or a friend that's out there that can crew you, like definitely utilize that first one, because that's a pretty long stretch where you're kind of taking care of yourself to have someone. So to have someone else take care of you, if you can capitalize on that, I would. Yeah, absolutely. Perfect transition. Let's talk about the conditions. We've got our first real heat wave coming through Marin County, perfectly time for the

17:40big Altas. Sorry to our runners, wish we could control that. It's been absolutely perfect and brilliant for the last couple of weeks. The good news is that it will be sunshiney and beautiful, quintessential spring in California, but definitely on the hot side and especially on Friday. So our 50k runners, make sure you're paying attention to this. I just took a screen cap of the forecast for Friday, which our viewers are seeing now. It's showing a high of 86 degrees with a real feel of 92. The race starts at eight o'clock in the morning, should be low 60s at that time, but it will warm up quickly. And one of the things that happens here in the Bay Area often is the inversion where it's cool down low and then warmer up high. So it'll probably feel really nice at the start of the 50k, but my guess is that people are going to start to feel warm pretty quickly. And then certainly the middle and the back of the pack by the time they get here to Marin

18:40Wood, it will be the actual heat of the day. There will be ice available. This is an important note from the race management side of things. We have ordered a couple of pallets of ice that we do plan to have it available in all three racing distances here this weekend, but staying hydrated, taking care of ourselves here this weekend is going to be a paramount importance. You will get a suntan, put the sunscreen on, the good news is, it's going to feel like a nice summer day. You're going to get lots of vitamin D, huge benefit as well. But yeah, considering it is a Friday, I would guess a vast majority of the people are coming in Thursday night due to work schedules and stuff. So don't forget to hydrate while you're traveling. It can be really easy to forget that, going through airports, trains, automobiles, cars, all the things. I just said the same words twice, but you get what I mean, definitely be on top of hydrating where your sunscreen and use that ice earlier than you think.

19:42Like Dylan said, you're going to feel good at the start line, but start cooling as soon as you get off the race start line, yeah. Have you ever had to use ice and race Danny being this sub-ultra? Yes, yes, yes, definitely. Yeah. It's rare that it's used in races in Marin. I feel like even like Miwaq, you don't see a lot of people using it. That race is in May. I mean, this is unusually hot, hot temperatures. It's typically like mid-60s, maybe up to low 70s here in Marin this time of the year. So having a real feel in the 90s is like, it will be a shock to the system for people coming from the winter. In terms of pro racers, do you have anything like how you would approach this? Just ice around the neck, bandana, keep yourself wet, ice in the bottles type of thing? Yeah, I think just going off of what I just said is just the entire morning, I'm staying cool. I don't really want my core body temperature to start heating up until I'm racing.

20:43Ice cubes in my flask would be a big thing. So if you do have crew, maybe they can throw some ice cubes in your flask. You pick it up around mile 10, again at mile 23, and wearing a hat is super helpful, just keeping it all around cool. Arm bands are nice as well. You can dip those in ice water and help protect you from the sun at the same time. Create your own shade. We'll have some free trail bucket hats for sale there at the finish line so people can grab some of those and create their own shade. Cool. Also weather conditions, we'll revisit this for the 100K and the 28K. Those should be slightly more comfortable, but still on the warm side. So to all the big all to runners, make sure you're staying hydrated and staying cool as we've said now a number of times. Moving to the contenders and starting with the women, the women's 50K is really the race of the weekend in my estimation, maybe Danny, you can get us started with some of the favorites in your mind. Yeah, I mean, I wasn't trying to be biased when I was going through all these races.

21:46But I would agree the women's 50K is heavily stacked, a couple contenders that I really want to call out, Hellemino Fockner. She was stuck in it last year's Broken Arrow 46K and just isn't all around competitor, no matter what race she's standing up or going to the start line of Claire Rhodes. She is a heavy hitter as well. She was first at the rut 28K last year, third at Gorge Waterfalls 100K. The only thing I'm a little nervous is she's coming from Alaska. And so any other condition, I'd really put her up like fighting for the win, but I think it's going to be quite a shock potentially for the system. I mean, she could be doing some heat training up there, but this is a really hot day. Erin Moyer. I mean, we should say her husband though, Trace and not got a golden ticket at Black Canyon. It's true. So she's using the same protocol than we're in for something special. We also have Erin Moyer again.

22:47She ran a 109 or 110 half marathon at the end of last year, but most recently she was fit that the Black Canyon 50K, which I also thought had quite a stellar field on the women's side. And then she was also a second at the end of last year in the Kodiak 100K, so definitely has some range. But to me, she's just, she's a fast runner. I mean, if you're running under 112 in the half marathon, like I would put you on this course as a strong favorite. We also have Adi Bracey, which considering she's doing Western might be the biggest winner this this week because she gets to practice some heat protocol, but she's fast over. I'm guessing she's using this as like potentially a long run or a fitness kind of like check in and route to Western states. We have the great Riley Brady. They recently, they still ran really fast at Black Canyon 100K, but you know, when you're comparing it to last year, you might see it as like a slight disappointment, even though

23:52they ran really fast, they recently have put up two quite big long runs back to back. I think it was last week or this week and Riley is just overall fast. So I think this course is actually going to suit them really, really well. And then speaking of really fast women, Heather Jackson, she won the Canyon 50K, I believe three years ago at this point, but Heather has one speed in my opinion and she just goes for it. And most of the time she lands it. So I imagine she's going to be, you know, I mean, no pun intended, bringing the heat up up in the front of this women's race. Yeah. So that's a quick, yeah, good summary of some of the race favorites here. I just wanted to add a couple of things. Claire Rhodes was second place behind table, hemming two years ago in the 28K. So she does have experience here, which is great. You said, Erin Moyer, she was sort of one of the surprise performers from last year. I think the big alter was the first time that she landed on my radar.

24:54And it feels like she's just been building momentum. I would be surprised to see Erin Moyer have a bit more of a breakout. Like if she could challenge for a win here against a field like this, I think it would be massive for her. I haven't watched it yet, but I just saw that Heather Jackson just put up a YouTube video about it was titled something to the effect of the race schedule that might kill me or something is like the ultimate. Oh, I need to click on this. I haven't been able to yet. But of course, Heather Jackson's getting ready for coca-dona. So in the same way that Adi Bracey's prepping for the heat of Western states, maybe Heather Jackson. This will be a good dress rehearsal for what will in all likelihood be a warm couple of days traversing the state of Arizona at the coca-dona. So some fun notes there. I'm really excited to see Riley race. I bet they're hungry after Black Canyon race that you mentioned was probably felt as a disappointment, especially as the returning champion from 2025.

25:55So Riley probably looking to get back on the right track. I also wanted to give a shout out to Rachel Spalding. She has raced a bunch of our events a couple of times at Gorge. I think the first time at the big altar, but somebody who just flies under the radar has a great attitude and who's always a strong competitor. So they really, really solid women's field. Yeah, truly. There's a lot of women who have performed at the highest level, those world class fields which is really exciting. And one more note on Riley from what I could find, I don't see that they've been in like a very competitive 50k. And to me, Riley is just fast, you know, like on flat stuff. And selfishly, I'm hoping Riley cracks the code and maybe just becomes like a 50k lover and that becomes, that becomes their new thing, you know, to focus on. So I'm excited to see where they land, too. Yeah. You know, it is interesting. And the Alaskans, there is like a decent Alaska contingent coming.

26:59There's also a pretty decent Canadian contingent. And we haven't mentioned Emily Mann here. Just want to give her a shout out because I think this is another one of those examples of people who sort of fly under the radar, but who have great results on their resume. Emily won the run rabbit, 100 Myler in 2024. She was six at the ultra trail Cape Town last year. So, you know, another one of those names who is not globally recognized, but who could put up a great, you know, podium or victorious type of performance this weekend. Yeah. So let's move over to the men here. Quick preview before we wind down the 50k preview show. All right, Danny, get us started here. Who are you looking at as some of the men's favorites? Oh, man. I have a couple. I mean, I'll try and go and order this time. So Drew Holman, you can't count Drew out. He's like one of my favorite tacticians in the sport.

28:00Like someone who's racist, I watch diligently to see where he makes his move. Because I've learned a lot from like doing that. And yeah, he's just an incredible racer. He's fast. He was fifth at Canyon's 50k last year in an integrate field there. And then obviously a huge third place at CCC end of August. He just knows how to show up at the right time. And so I'm curious like what he's trying to get out of this race, you know, like in the big scheme of his calendar. David Norris, honestly, I think is the favorite. My man was top 10 at OCC. He won Sunapiece Scramble last year against a very, very fast field. And yeah, he's just really good at this distance. I mean, anyone who's placing in the top 10 at the biggest 50k in the world deserves a huge shout out. He, yeah, it says steamboat springs. I guess he is there now. Yeah.

29:01So yeah. But he's an Alaskan. Okay. That's where I was getting confused. I was like, I thought he was from Alaska. He's a multiple time winner of Mount Marathon. He's a native Alaskan and he's a Nordic skier by training. And I believe don't quote me on this. But I believe he's a Nordic ski coach in steamboat spring. So he makes his home in steamboat, but he hails from Alaska. Cool. Yeah. Yeah. Because honestly, when OCC course changed last year, he was one of the ones where I was like, oh man, I really thought the OG course was going to suit him well. But then he still was ninth. And I was like, okay, it's determined that he can run anything, you know, in this like three or six hour distance, our time frame. Dan Green. That's a really fun one for me. Coca-Cola 250 winner coming back or not coming back, but he's coming here to race. We have Jeffrey Stern, who is a local. I used to know him also as a local down in Santa Barbara. But last year he was fifth in the 50K.

30:03And we also have, I thought Ryan Montgomery was on the first floor. Yeah. So this is just a screen cap as far as I could go on the fantasy board. Ryan Montgomery is on the list and confirmed. Yes. Yeah. Some place last year. And yeah, he's also just another all around fast, fast person. Yeah. Plus we got Rich Lockwood. So Rich Lockwood and Jason Schlarb pivoted from Port of Iarta by UTMB. Schlarb's going to do the 100K. Rich Lockwood. Jumping into the 50K, we're grateful to have Rich come race. He's put up a second place performance in our other race, Gorge Waterfalls. Brandon Miller. He's a great Canadian athlete, excited to have him here. And then you notice another name at the bottom of the screen, Tommy Sullivan. He is a late scratch. So Tommy is not going to be racing though. His wife MK is going to be one of my broadcast partners throughout race weekend. So hopefully Tommy will come down with MK with their kiddo and dogs and have a great weekend

31:05out here in Marin County. That's sort of it on the 50K preview. It's going to be great racing for the men and the women. I guess just one more note. Drew Holman. This is his second time coming to the big Alta. Ryan might remember where he finished. I think it was fourth or fifth two years ago in our inaugural running of the 50K. Drew is a great friend of both of ours. And yeah, excited to see him. I think race for the first time since CCC, and then he's doing Gorge next month as well in the 100K. Yeah, that's super cool. I will note too, like for the course records are currently held by the Hameans. I think Eli's is going to be quite tough. I think Eli is the best 50K male runner in the world right now to be frank. He's really, really difficult to beat and it was quite cool last year. I do think the women are going to be closer to Taber's record than people might assume because this is a really, really great field.

32:07And Taber was kind of like out on her own for quite a bit of the race, like she did have Erin and Lindsay in pursuit. But when I always said and done, she did win by like a pretty good margin. And I do think the women's record on a cool day could go a little bit faster, you know, if Taber had some pressure. So I think the women will actually be pretty close. Yeah. I'm glad you brought that up because I was going to prompt you with it. And I was a good call back to the thing that I said earlier about the line of sight because I remember being out on the trail and seeing Taber in the lead. And she said, Hey, do you know who that woman is behind me? At the time, it was Erin Moyer. And again, I said, she had a bit of a coming out party. And I didn't know who she was at the time. So I said, I'm not sure, but she looks really strong. So Taber had a great race last year, ran 404. It'll be really interesting to see if the women can go quicker than that. But I would be really surprised if the men can go quicker than Eli 319

33:08is just so crazy on this course, 31 miles of 7,000 feet of climbing. Like, that's a time that people run at way too cool. Like, the waiting time away too cool was, I think, about that. And this has 4,000 more feet of climbing. Crazy. Yeah. I do. Yeah, I think it was nice because he had some men that pushed him in the beginning where he kind of just was like, this is the pace. And then he kept going that pace. And not everyone else kept going that pace. His two victories at the big altar, some of the best performances I recall saying, the first year he won by 20 minutes in the 50K. It's crazy. Just nuts. As he said, he's arguably the best 50K athlete in the world. We wish he was coming back. And we also have a funny joke here because Taber had won both distances. The 50K and 28K owns both course records at this point. And we call it the Taber Heming Cup if you win multiple distances here. And now they both have to come back and win other distances.

34:08But we'll invite them back in the future. We hope the Hemings are doing great. In fact, Taber's coming to Gorge. But Danny, that's the 50K super exciting. Appreciate you helping me break it down here. We're going to do the 100K tomorrow. And as we go here, reminder to our audience, you can follow along the big altar all weekend. We'll be doing sort of as live as possible. Coverage on our social media. So follow free trail on Instagram. We are playing fantasy for all three events. fantasy.free trail.com. We are playing Kianti this weekend too. Like I said, we were playing two races at Tenerife. Those have of course been canceled as we talked about at the top of the show. We are playing to use some athlete interviews too. So those may or may not start being published as you hear this preview show go up. Thank you to Solomon Solomon.com. Go grab yourself some new hot sparkle and shoes or a new vest, which Solomon has always done the best at making. Thank you never second also for their support.

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