Vert is the home for every trail & ultra runner. On this podcast we host conversations with key members of our Trail & Ultra running community from all over the world. From professional world class athletes to our Vert.run members and community. Narrating captivating stories and learning from and about this amazing sport.
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Canadians, Dan and Chantal Deveau are planning the longest walk home. Hiking 4,265km/2,650mi between the Mexican border to Canada along the (PCT) The Pacific Crest Trail in 2024. Follow along as they plan for this adventure. They will record + document this journey from the trail, small resupply towns, around the campfire, and when they lay exhausted in their tent. They will be grateful to get out of the tent and view a different view each morning. Follow along with your earbuds. Subscribe + ...
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Vic Johnson is maybe better known on the internet as Mountain Sports Dietician. The principles surrounding sports nutrition are relatively simple - applying them is not. Vic’s mission is very simple, to help high performing mountain athletes apply these principles properly so they can fuel and hydrate to make the most of their training and perform…
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Vic Johnson is maybe better known on the internet as Mountain Sports Dietician. The principles surrounding sports nutrition are relatively simple - applying them is not. Vic’s mission is very simple, to help high performing mountain athletes apply these principles properly so they can fuel and hydrate to make the most of their training and perform …
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152. Matt Daniels | Navigating running and life's rollercoaster
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Matt Daniels is a good friend of mine - we’ve known each other since 2016 - and a great, great athlete and mentor. He lives in Boulder, Colorado. I’ve met with Matt in four different countries this year, and we’ve shared a memorable battle at the Chuckanut 50k in Bellingham WA, in March, where I finished first and he finished second, pushing me all…
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Peter Frano is an elite trail runner from Slovakia who won a bronze medal at the world trail championships 2023 in Innsbruck and finished second at UTMB CCC in 2024. In this episode we discover more about Peter’s training and background, his preparation leading up to CCC, his race strategy and his plans for the future. Follow Peter on Instagram: ht…
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150. Rosanna Buchauer | CCC podium and race strategy, physical and mental fitness, female athletes, pros and cons of being a pro athlete, the importance of cheering for our competitors
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Rosanna Buchauer is a professional trail runner from Germany running for Dynafit. This year Rosanna won the Lavaredo Ultra Trail and placed 3rd at CCC at UTMB. In this episode, we discuss everything about her race, how important it was for her to build confidence after her DNF last year, the physical and mental preparation, what goals she had going…
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149. Dani Moreno | Going all in as a pro athlete, media dynamics in our sport, sub ultra racing, trail running rankings
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Dani Moreno is a professional trail runner for Adidas Terrex based in Mammoth Lakes, California. Dani is a great, great athlete and a true student of the sport. She has a really good perspective on various dynamics concerning our sport at an elite level, she hosts a podcast called The Sub Hub, together with Emkay Sullivan, she runs fast both on the…
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148. Vincent Bouillard | 2024 UTMB Champion
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Vincent Bouillard is the 2024 UTMB Champion. With an incredible masterclass of race tactics and management, Vincent took everyone by surprise and won the most prestigious ultra trail race of the year, finishing sub 20h and running the third fastest performance of all time at UTMB. In this episode we talk about Vincent’s race, his background, his wo…
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Steve Krenn is a trail runner and a coach from New York City. Learn more about Steve: https://vert.run/coaches/ _______________________ Follow @vert.run on IG Download our app and sign up to our training plans on vert.run You can send us a message with any questions for us or for our guests! https:/…
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146. A conversation around weight, body image, eating disorders and relative energy deficiency in sport
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In this episode Francesco is joined by coach Andy for a conversation around weight, Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport, eating disorders and body image in endurance athletes and endurance sports, particularly trail running. We give some facts and figures and we share our own thoughts and experiences with these issues. We’re glad that they are beco…
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145. UTMB week stories and recap
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Today we're joined by coach Max, coach Manu and coach Steve for a recap of the UTMB week. Steve finished MCC and Francesco took second in OCC. Besides the races, the UTMB week is always a great chance to connect with and meet old friends and new people. The high energy and vibrant atmosphere left everyone inspired and grateful for the community tha…
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As the summer season is coming to an end and especially after last week's UTMB, we figured it's important to re-listen to this conversation with Coach Daniel Rowland on recovery and managing the time after a race. It’s a very delicate period, both physically and mentally: we need to make sure that we are actually taking enough time to rest after a …
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A guide on how to run OCC: from race preparation, logistics and gear to course description and strategy Resources: UTMB runner guide _______________________ Follow @vert.run on IG Download our app and sign up to our training plans on vert.run You can send us a message with any questions for us or for ou…
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A guide on how to run CCC: from race preparation, logistics and gear to course description and strategy Resources: UTMB runner guide _______________________ Follow @vert.run on IG Download our app and sign up to our training plans on vert.run You can send us a message with any questions for us or for ou…
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A guide on how to run UTMB: from race preparation, logistics and gear to course description, strategy and how to figure out what to do after the race! Resources: UTMB runner guide _______________________ Follow @vert.run on IG Download our app and sign up to our training plans on vert.run You can send us a me…
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Manu Ramirez is a trail runner and a coach from Venezuela. He trains and lives between Colombia and Panama. _______________________ Follow @vert.run on IG Download our app and sign up to our training plans on vert.run You can send us a message with any questions for us or for our guests! https://anchor.f…
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139. Jonathan Albon | Western States experience, training ideas, load management and motivation
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Jonathan Albon is a professional trail runner for The North Face living in Norway and one of the most accomplished and decorated athletes of our sport. Jon has just raced at Western States, his first ever experience at the 100m distance, where he placed 6th. In this episode we talk about his race at WS and the training leading up to it. We also tal…
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Andrea Chickness is a trail runner, a professional ballet dancer and a coach for Vert.run. She trains and lives in the United States. ____________________________ Follow @vert.run on IG Download our app and sign up to our training plans on vert.run You can send us a message with any questions for us or for our guests…
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137. Ask me anything with Francesco
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How did you start trail running? How do you see your future as a runner? will we ever see you at the start of a famous 100 miler? How did you figure out the nutrition strategy that works for you? And much more. Thanks for your questions, if you have more, feel free to send me a DM or comment under this episode on Spotify! _____________________…
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136. Coach Lab with Moises Jimenez | The reality of endurance training: handling setbacks, learning from mistakes, keeping it fun
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Moises Jimenez is a trail and ultrarunner for The North Face and co-founder of Vert.run. He currently lives in Boulder, US. In this episode we talk about the reality of endurance training: training is hard and progress is often non linear. We must learn to navigate the ups and downs of training and racing, the setbacks, the tough workouts and bad r…
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135. Germain Grangier | Running seriously, but not taking myself too seriously
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Germain Grangier is a professional trail and endurance athlete from France sponsored by The North Face. In this conversation, we discover more about Germain’s lifestyle, his approach to training and racing, why he chose to live in the Mercantour region of the French Alps, the potential he sees in dealing with struggles and setbacks, and his build-u…
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Zeljko Radovic is a trail runner and a coach for Vert.run from Belgrade, Serbia ____________________________ Follow @vert.run on IG Download our app and sign up to our training plans on vert.run You can send us a message with any questions for us or for our guests! https://anchor.fm/vertrun/message Francesc…
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133. Rising stars of the sport: Lukas Ehrle
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Lukas Ehrle is a trail, mountain and track athlete from Germany. Lukas is only 19 years old but he's already an accomplished athlete and for sure one of the most interesting rising stars in the sport of distance running. His versatility from the track to the trails is impressive and he represents really well the approach to running that the new gen…
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132. Coach Lab with Max Keith | GPS watches: best models, most important features and how to take advantage of your GPS watch for trail running
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Max Keith is a trail runner from Chile and the co-founder of Vert. In this episode we talk about GPS watches: from how to choose a GPS and how to use it, to the best models, the different activity data and some of the most recent innovations in the market. Maybe you have a GPS watch but you’ve never really understood how to take advantage of a cert…
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Adam Brown is a trail runner and a coach for Vert.run from Australia ____________________________ Follow @vert.run on IG Download our app and sign up to our training plans on vert.run You can send us a message with any questions for us or for our guests! https://anchor.fm/vertrun/message Francesco's links: …
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130. Sophia Laukli | Running and skiing: my life, my soul
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Sophia Laukli is a professional trail runner and cross country skier for Salomon coming from the US. Sophia is only 23 but is already a star of the sport, being the 2023 Golden Trail World Series champion, having won races like the Mont Blanc Marathon and Sierre Zinal and her first cross country skiing world cup race this year. I decided to reach o…
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129. Coach Lab with Max Keith | What types of tests can you do to monitor your fitness? Tracking progress and understanding how you're responding to training
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Max Keith is a trail runner from Chile and the co-founder of Vert. In this episode we talk about the different types of tests that you can do to monitor your fitness. Tracking progress is not always easy, and tests are a good way to understand how you’re responding to training, if you know what you’re doing and how to interpret the data - something…
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128. Kirsten Kortebein | The behind the scenes that most people don't see: building Vert, unglamorous work, freelancing, life between the US and Europe
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I’m recording this interview live, from the Vert.run headquarters in Boulder and my guest today is Kirsten Kortebein. Kirsten is one of the vert.run co-founders, together with her partner Moises Jimenez and their friend Max Keith. We talk about what she thinks and how she feels about the journey with Vert, what are some of the challenges that she h…
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Steve Krenn is a trail runner from New York and a Vert.run coach. In this episode, Steve and I give some tips on how to find trails when you're in a new place, for example for a work trip or when you are on vacation, how to build routes, how to discover the most popular trails in a certain area, how to take advantage of some route builder apps and …
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126. Francesco Puppi and Leo Pershall | Lake Sonoma recap: preparation, strategy, nutrition, gear and post race reflections
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Last week Leo and I ran the Lake Sonoma 50 and Lake Sonoma Marathon in California. We both had very good races, with Leo placing 7th overall in the marathon in 4:01:53, and I winning the LS50 with a new course record in 6:30:17. This is our race recap: we talk about our training leading up to the race, strategy, taper, nutrition, gear, approach, wh…
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Parker Farabee is a trail runner, physiotherapist, exercise physiologist and coach from Portland, Oregon. In this episode we talk about strength training for trail runners. Why is strength training so important, why do we need strength as trail runners? Of course we're not bodybuilders, so how much strenght do we need? What type of strength trainin…
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124. Seth Ruhling | Boulder Boys fan favorite. Training and life in Boulder, the professionalization of the sport, comparing the US and European trail running scene and much more
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I’m recording this interview live, from the vert run headquarters in boulder aka moi’s house, and my guest today is Seth Ruhling. Seth is a North Face sponsored athlete, a podcast host and a boulder boy fans favorite. He’s originally from Tennessee but he’s moved to Boulder to chase his dream to train and compete at the highest level in the sport o…
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Yngvild Kaspersen, Toni McCann and Dani Moreno are professional trail athletes for Adidas Terrex and respectively CCC 2023 winner, OCC 2023 winner and third place finisher at OCC 2022. Yngvild, Toni and Dani are currently in Auburn for a short training camp on the Western States trails, so I thought it would be fun to catch up and see how they’re d…
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Benjamin Roubiol is our 2023 trail running world champion. Benjamin comes from France (Savoie) won the world title in the long race in Innsbruck, on a 80km course with 6000m of elevation. We catch up with Benjamin to know how he’s doing and how he is structuring his training in this first part of the season, his goals in 2024, some curiosities abou…
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Steve Krenn is a trail runner from New York and a Vert.run coach. Running at night can be a beautiful and rewarding experience, if you know how to do it. Some of the most famous ultra trail races often include running through the night. During the wintertime, when the days are short, we’re often running through the dark, before or after school or w…
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120. Carlos Ferrer | Mile & Stone - The must-read newsletter for trail running pros and enthusiasts
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Carlos Ferrer Fernández is a trail runner from Paris and the managing director of the newsletter Mile and Stone. I invited Carlos on the podcast after following his newsletter for a while, and discovering a great project that I feel like is contributing to more knowledge, better information and more professionalization in the trail and ultra runnin…
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119. Kimi Schreiber | The value of authenticity
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Kimi Schreiber is a professional trail runner, a journalist and a podcaster from Germany. She runs for Adidas Terrex. In this episode, we chat about running, training and trail running media, but the main topic of our conversation is probably authenticity: the courage to be ourselves and show other people what we really are, not what we pretend to …
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Parker Farabee is a trail runner, physiotherapist, exercise physiologist and coach from Portland, Oregon. In this episode we talk about base training and how to build an aerobic base. What are the benefits of base training? Why is it essential to increase our work capacity and improve fatigue resistance? What happens to our bodies when we're traini…
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117. Robbie Simpson | Running fast on any surface, any distance
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Robbie Simpson is a professional trail and road runner from Scotland, sponsored by Adidas Terrex. Robbie is one of the best all around athletes in the world: he's run anything from 5k on the road to ultramarathons. He's been on the podium of Sierre-Zinal FIVE times, he's won a world mountain running championships bronze medal, and he's won a medal …
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Max Keith is a trail runner from Chile and the co-founder of Vert. In this episode we talk about how to monitor your training: what data and metrics should we be paying attention to? Technology, with all kinds of data, has become so easy to access, but what is actually relevant and what should we really care about? What can we learn from the analys…
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115. Henriette Albon | Winter Bob Graham Round FKT, quitting a "normal" job and turning pro, balancing racing and personal projects, keeping it fun!
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Henriette Albon is a professional runner for Arc'teryx living in Norway. Henriette just set the women’s winter FKT of the Bob Graham Round, one of the most challenging and famous trail routes in the British Lake District, tagging 42 peaks and covering 106 miles with over 8000m of elevation. In this episode we talk about the challenges of her advent…
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Parker Farabee is a trail runner, physiotherapist, exercise physiologist and coach from Portland, Oregon. In this episode we talk about how to deal with an injury and about cross training and rehab. We will point out and clarify some of the most important things you should do when you get injured, how you can and should maintain consistency in your…
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113. Voices from the Vert.run community: Kristin Jensen | Trail running in Denmark, training with Vert, running long and backyard ultras
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Kristin Jensen is a trail runner from Denmark and a Vert.run explore athlete. Kristin is a passionate runner whose goal is, like many other athletes that we coach, to run longer, faster and stronger while having fun in the process. In this episode we talk about being a trail runner in Denmark, probably not the most typical place you would think whe…
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112. Katie Schide | All the little things add up
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Katie Schide is a professional trail runner for The North Face from the US, living in France. Katie is one of the most well known and established trail runners in the world: she’s just been awarded the second place of the Trail Runner of the Year Award presented by Freetrail, and as well as the second place of the historic Ultra Runner of the Year …
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111. Common misconceptions in training for trail and ultra running
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In this episode we talk about some common misconceptions in training for trail and ultras. With the recent increase in participation in trail and ultrarunning and more and more people coming to trail running from the roads or other endurance sports, team sports, or from being sedentary, we felt a need to discuss some common myths and not always acc…
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110. Dan Curts | Trail and road fitness, Northswood Athletic Team, trail running on the East Coast
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Dan Curts is a professional trail runner for Brooks coming from New Hampshire, United States. With PRs of 3:43 in the 1500m, sub 4 min in the mile and 13:38 in the 5000m, Dan is a really fast, really talented runner who’s main focus is on mountain running and the sub ultra distances. This year he won the US mountain running up and down champs and h…
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109. Max Keith | The Speed Project Atacama 2023
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Our own Max Keith just ran The Speed Project Atacama, a 500km crossing of the Atacama Desert that is not just a race, it’s an adventure, a deep dive into the unknown, a shared experience with all the participants and crews, an introspective journey across one’s emotions and soul. The only rule of this event is that there are no rules, and that you …
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108. James Huw | Trail running and climate action: why the environmental issue should be a key topic of every discussion related to outdoor sports
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James Huw is a trail runner, a science presenter, a geologist, astronomy and climate scientist from Wales, UK. James’ mission is to communicate science, make science cool and accessible to people. With Kilian Jornet he founded the Athlete Climate Academy, a place to give outdoor athletes the background they need to discuss climate change and enviro…
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107. Emkay Sullivan | Redefining plans, dealing with fatigue and understanding ourselves through running
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Emkay Sullivan is a professional trail runner for Craft from Reno, Nevada, United States. After a long and challenging year full of success but also some setbacks, Emkay decided to put off her final goal of 2023 and not run CIM, California International Marathon. In this episode talk about the challenge of training, the difficulty of redefining goa…
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106. Malen Osa | From the Basque Country, with a strong will to leave a mark in trail running
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Malen Osa is a professional trail runner for Salomon living in Spain, in the Basque Country. Malen is only 20 years old and has had a breakthrough season in 2023, placing fourth overall in the final ranking Golden Trail World Series, and top 5 at Dolomyths Run, Pikes Peak Ascent and Mammoth Trail Fest. She’s definitely one of the most interesting y…
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105. Emily Hawgood | The joy of running + training discussions: training data, athlete-coach relationship, strength training, altitude training
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Emily Hawgood is a professional trail and ultra runner from Zimbabwe sponsored by Adidas Terrex. Emily is one of the most wonderful and cheerful people I know, not just in the sport of running, and she’s one of the strongest trail athletes in the world, especially in the 100k-100m distance. She’s also a running coach, a strength coach, she studied …
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