Andrew Bumbalough | Bowerman to Black Canyon
The Freetrail Podcast with Dylan Bowman
Dylan Bowman
4.8 • 866 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2024
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Andrew Bumbalough is a former professional track and road racer for the Bowerman Track Club who now works as a product line manager at Nike. Boasting a 2:10 marathon PR, Bumbi will be making his ultra debut, chasing a Golden Ticket, at Aravaipa's Black Canyon 100k where I will serve as his crew chief. He is a close friend returning for his second appearance on the pod. Topics discussed:
- Andrew's arrival in the national spotlight in High School
- The incubator
- Retirement and career transition
- Working at Nike after being sponsored by the brand
- Mix of emotions about his pro career
- Trail inspiration at Canyons 100k
- His training and psychology ahead of Black Canyon
- Being self-coached for the first time
- People he admires
- A lot more
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| 0:00.0 | Free Trail fam, welcome back to the show. Of course, I'm your host, Dylan Bowman, and today I'm |
| 0:19.7 | joined by my dear friend, |
| 0:21.3 | Andrew Bambolo, who returns for his second appearance on the podcast, the first being almost |
| 0:26.4 | four years ago now. May of 2020, hard to believe. It was just as Bumby was retiring from his |
| 0:33.6 | professional racing career for Nike and the Bowerman Track Club. |
| 0:39.1 | A few years later now, |
| 0:42.0 | Bumby now works as a product line manager for Nike, |
| 0:46.4 | fulfilling a long-time dream of breaking into the footwear industry. |
| 0:49.3 | And although he's been retired for a few years now, it was a good time to sit down and record another podcast |
| 0:52.6 | because a certain Andrew Bumbleow is about to make |
| 0:56.4 | his ultramarathon debut at the Black Canyon 100K, a hungry, motivated 210 marathoner. Andrew will be |
| 1:05.8 | among the ridiculous field assembling to chase golden tickets into the legendary Western States 100 there at Black Canyon. |
| 1:13.1 | And I am happy to say that I have the honor of acting as Bumby's crew chief of Black Canyon, |
| 1:20.0 | shepherding him through his first ultramarathon and joining him as he confronts a super powerful life experience. I can't freaking wait. |
| 1:31.3 | In the podcast, we talk about his pro racing career, the mixed emotions he harbors about |
| 1:36.4 | what he achieve. We talk about navigating retirement, his new career at Nike. We talk about |
| 1:42.6 | his pseudo-spiritual introduction to trail running at last |
| 1:46.0 | year's Canyons by UTMB. We talk about his training and his mindset ahead of Black Canyon. |
| 1:51.9 | We talk about being self-coached for the first time, the value of goal setting, and a lot more. |
| 1:57.6 | I hope you guys enjoy the Convo. Before we get to it, I have a really important |
| 2:01.9 | and really exciting announcement to make, and that is that free trail and daybreak racing are |
| 2:07.5 | very excited to partner with Mountain Outpost to deliver a full live stream broadcast of both |
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