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Timmy Parr Melia: I’m here with Timmy Parr or Tim Parr? Timmy: Timmy. M: You prefer Timmy? T: Well Timmy is kind of my race name as well as my good friends call me Timmy. M: And, you ran Kendall (Mountain Run) last year? T: I did last year. M: Do you feel pretty good going into it, similar to last year’s shape and things like that? T: I do. I feel it will be a good day. There’s some competition out there but it should be a solid race with all of us and we will see how it goes. M: Is there a particular section you are looking forward to the most? T: …

Bob Boeder Melia: You have kind of been around the ultra community a long time done: Western States, Hardrock, Wastch, and Kendall Mountain Run a bunch Bob: This will be my 15th Kendall Mountain Run. M: Wow, that’s an awesome number. B: I’m really looking forward to it. M: What keeps you coming back? B: Well I live here, it’s my neighborhood race. But it’s also a reason to get fit, to get in shape every summer. If I don’t have target race to train for, I’m like anyone else, I tend to get a little lazy. I probably don’t do as much uphill training as I should. M: Do you train on Kendall (Mountain) …

Eric Senseman Melia: I’m sitting down here with Eric Senseman the day before Kendall (Mountain Run). And congrats earlier this year you won our Elephant Mountain 35K Eric: Yeah, thanks very much. M: Yeah, and it was the second fastest time too. E: I was hoping for the fastest but doesn’t always work out. M: You were only like 7 or something minutes shy. E: Yeah, close enough. M: You’re up there. E: Yeah. M: So you have been doing a lot of ultras and now you are doing this Sky Race; what triggered that desire? E: No one thing necessarily. I like the style of the Sky Series. The distances are good. They are …

Justin Ricks Melia: You’ve kind of won the last few races you have done, the last four. Do you think that will give you some momentum going into this race? Or more excited to do a sky race? Justin: Mostly just excited to do a Sky Race. The last four races I don’t think the competition has been real tough and just for fun. Yeah, I’m excited to do the Sky Series and come out to Silverton. What a fun place to run and be at. M: How was running Kendall, before? J: Yeah I ran it in 2014. And we were here for Hardrock so I went up it a couple of weeks ago …

  Kelly Wolf Melia: Is this the first time you are running Kendall (Mountain Runs)? Kelly: This is the first time I’m running Kendall and this summer is the first time I’ve been to Silverton. M: And you recently moved up here after college right? K: Yeah, I graduated middle of May and moved up here with my friend Erica, about a week or two after that. So I’ve been here for a few months now. M: What attracted you to Silverton, that San Jauns maybe? K: The San Juans definetly, 100%. Just seeing pictures of the mountains, mountain running I just knew it was a magical area. And living at elevation is like a …