317. HISTORY at Western States 100! A Full Breakdown. Plus High Carb Study and Questions!

Now it's time for Western States, and let's just start with the big story.

Records went down, and our predictions on times ended up being almost exactly right.

Okay, you crushed it.

Thank you.

I mean, I think it was pretty obvious that it was going this direction.

Vincent Mouylart won for men in, what was his time? I was kind of too sad-

[laughs] Yeah

... at that moment to look at his exact time.

It was 13:40-something.

13-something very fast.

[laughs]

Yeah, it was incredibly, incredibly fast, um, right around what we predicted.

And Jen Lichter won for wom- women in 15:28, which was one minute ahead of Courtney Dauwalter's course record, um, both right around what we predicted.

And so let's just start on those two races to begin with.

First, whenever we talk about our boy Vincent, I wanna have a reminder that he's so kind.

I got to run with him a lot at Western States last year when he DNF'd, very relevant to some of the other athlete stories we're gonna talk about, and we got to talk just, uh, about little things in the race, as you do.

And the whole time, he was being so kind and supportive of me, and even during Western States itself this year, he saw me and he gave me the biggest, like, most meaningful little high-five and, and just re- of recognition.

Um, and, and this is barely knowing each other.

We met once in 2019.

Actually, you met once in 2019 when he kicked your ass.

Okay, okay.

Tell it.

He, like, really kicked your ass-

Yeah

... at a local half-marathon.