2025 Western States 100 Fantasy Prediction Show

The Freetrail Podcast with Dylan Bowman

Dylan Bowman

Ultrarunning, Training, Wellness, Endurance, Health, Running, Commentary, Trailrunning, Sports, Run

5 • 773 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

In today’s show we’ll share our final thoughts and predictions for the race. Whose your favorite runner? Who are you picking for the win? Let us know in the comments!

Don’t forget to pick your favorite athletes in Freetrail Fantasy at fantasy.freetrail.com for your chance to win sweet prizes!

Want to learn more about Freetrail? Check out Freetrail.com to learn more and consider joining our membership community, Freetrail Pro, to be part of the best global online community of passionate trail runners. Best sport in the world!

Our Western States coverage is brought to you by our good friends at HOKA. We're grateful for their generous support and belief in Freetrail.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to free trails coverage of the 2025 Western States 100, the grand daddy of Trail 100 mile racing celebrating its 52nd year in beautiful
0:22.9	Olympic Valley, California. I'm Dylan Bowman and the whole free trail team is here on the ground
0:27.7	doing daily live shows in partnership with our good friends at Hoka and we couldn't be more
0:33.6	excited. It doesn't need to be stated, but Western states is truly one of the great
0:38.3	sporting events in the world. It's been a major part of my life for the last 15 years,
0:43.2	and it's an honor to be able to bring our coverage to the global trail running community.
0:48.3	What you're about to hear in the podcast feed is the audio from the YouTube live stream.
0:52.6	Of course, we'd love for you to join us live over there
0:55.2	on YouTube if you prefer the video experience or just want to contribute to the chat. Visit the show
1:00.3	notes where you can find a link to the channel. We're going live daily at 3.30 p.m. Pacific
1:05.9	time throughout Race Week. As I said, our coverage all week is made possible with support from
1:11.5	Hoka, the brand born from Trail running the presenting sponsor of Western States and the makers
1:16.9	of some of the most popular footwear and apparel products on the market. You'll hear more from
1:22.2	Hoka during the show, but please visit Hoka.com to check out all of their amazing trail products.
1:29.1	Best sport ever, best week ever, best race ever.
1:33.7	Western states is here.
1:35.9	Thanks for joining us.
1:42.8	2025, Western States 100. We are here in the Hoka Outpost, aka the back room of the coffee bar, which has been Free Trail H.Q for the last four or five days. It has been an absolutely wonderful, brilliant Western States week so far, and we are very excited to bring
2:02.9	you our final show with our final thoughts leading into the 52nd year of North America's
2:09.0	oldest and most storied 100-mile foot race. My name is Dylan Bowman. Join by my co-host for Race Week,
2:15.9	Karen, good to see you. Good to see you. Good to be here.
2:19.8	My brains are mashed potatoes, but I am ready for one last show before we get the day off tomorrow.
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