00:00Good morning and welcome to the 2024 Western States 100, broadcasting live from the track here at Placer High School in beautiful Auburn, California.
00:10My name is Dylan Bowman, joined for the fourth year in a row by my good friend and colleague, Corinne Malcolm.
00:16Best job in the world. No place I would rather be.
00:19Three, two, one.
00:22And we are off, folks. The 2024 Western States 100 is officially started.
00:29Jim Walmsley will have that center of gravity in the elite men's race, and everybody will be marking him for the next 100 miles.
00:36There's Katie Scheid, race leader, returning second place finisher, the second fastest woman ever on the course.
00:42I think this is Heather Jackson here on screen.
00:44I am looking to see a number of Chinese athletes make their way to Auburn in the top 10.
00:49Jim's fastest split ever through Duncan is actually 323 from 2016.
00:56That is blistering.
00:57Rod Farvard from Mammoth Lakes, California, one of our dark horses.
01:01The heat is definitely starting to hit people pretty hard.
01:04The women's top 10 all coming into Michigan Bluff basically together.
01:09Simultaneously, we have Katie Scheid almost into Forest Hill on course record pace,
01:14while the top five men are within five minutes of each other at Cal 1.
01:18This is the most exciting Western States 100 broadcast that we have ever had.
01:23Potentially the most exciting Western States 100 that we've ever had.
01:27We have Katie queatus' necessities.
01:29, the разработчики of Philadelphia, three-joint athletes,
01:31as you can watch pro-pushes because of course 있 men in those eight mountains
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01:39Let's take a little bit of off time playing.
01:41We have me gone on.
01:42Let usories all across the earth.
01:43We have the native mountain ofhumans.
01:45That is what we have been doing.
01:46We have the talent that we had been looking for.
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