Um, I know you had-- you've had a-- it's been a tumultuous season, but, I mean, I guess for you, have you been-- Like, was it a-- What is it? Was it a satisfactory enough build to have, like, enough confidence to do this?

Uh, yeah, I mean, I didn't really have-- I didn't know where I was at in terms of, like, my fitness and with how training had been going.

I was confident that I could have a good day.

Like, I was confident I'd be top 10 if I was going for that.

But I wasn't really sure if I, like, had what it take to be competing for the win or exactly w-how I should be thinking about my expectations for this.

And I think that, I mean, this is, like, really my only race of the year pretty much, and I don't think I would purposely choose to do that in the future.

I-- That puts a lot of weight and pressure on one performance.

What, what comes to mind first?

Like, what did, what did you get out of the GPT experience that you think is essential for UTMB this year?

Super different than Western.

Like, Western, you basically start in the morning, and you finish in the evening before it gets dark if you're going fast.

And so I hadn't had that experience of, like, really racing through a night.

I guess I'd done Transgrancanaria, which starts at midnight, but that still isn't, like, racing through an entire night.

Um, GPT definitely was racing through an entire night, which is part of why I picked it.

I wanna practice with that.

What was your reaction, though? Like, what were your takeaways? What did it do for you?