Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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What a wild week! To cap off our 2025 Western States 100 coverage, I'm joined by Brett Hornig, Leah Yingling, and Mike McMonagle in our Auburn, CA studio to recap our higlights of this year's race. There's so much more to say, but before we make more sense of it all in the days and weeks to come, we wanted to give you those initial thoughts and feelings here.

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