Ben Dhiman | Lavaredo Champion & Course Record Holder
The Freetrail Podcast with Dylan Bowman
Dylan Bowman
5 • 773 Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Ben Dhiman is an American pro runner for Asics, living in France. He has been one of the strongest long-course athletes in the sport in recent years, this season winning Ventoux by UTMB 89k, and Lavaredo by UTMB 120k - the latter in course record fashion. Later this summer, Ben will be among the favorites at UTMB.
Topics discussed:
- How Ben is feeling mid-season a month removed from UTMB
- The couple disappointing DNFs Ben as succumbed to at UTMB
- Dealing with the loss of his father in 2024
- Ben's winter campaign to run sub-30min in the 10k
- Documenting his training and racing on Substack
- His win at Ventoux by UTMB 89k
- Breaking the course record at Lavaredo
- Look ahead to UTMB
- A lot more!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, fam, welcome to the free trail podcast. Of course, I am your loving host, Dylan Bellman. And today we are joined by Ben Deeman, the American Trail superstar living in France. |
| 0:22.8 | Ben has been on the podcast a couple of times before. He is one of my favorite athletes to follow |
| 0:27.8 | in the sport. And in just a couple of weeks, he is going to be one of the favorites to win UTMB, a great |
| 0:34.1 | occasion to get him back on the pod. This season, Ben has achieved two huge victories, |
| 0:39.4 | one at the Vauntu by UTMB, 89K in the spring, and then about a month ago, a huge win in |
| 0:45.3 | course record at Leverado, a performance that Ben described as the best of his career. Some topics |
| 0:52.5 | we discussed today, how Ben is feeling mid-season, a month removed |
| 0:56.9 | from UTMB. We talk about the couple disappointing DNFs Ben has succumbed to at UTMB and why. We talk |
| 1:03.8 | about dealing with the loss of his father in 2024. We talk about Ben's winter campaign to run |
| 1:10.7 | sub 30 minutes in the 10K, which he successfully did. |
| 1:14.7 | We talked about documenting his training and racing on substack, his win at the Von Tuba, Uttmb, |
| 1:21.0 | 89K. |
| 1:21.9 | We talk about breaking the course record at Lavorado, look ahead towards UTMB, and a lot more. |
| 1:28.6 | A quick note before we get started. |
| 1:30.5 | We talk about Ben's substack a bunch in this episode. |
| 1:33.8 | I link to it in the free trail newsletter all the time. |
| 1:38.0 | I link to it again in the show notes of today's episode. |
| 1:40.9 | So if you don't subscribe to the Speed Demon, go do it now. It is some of the best |
| 1:45.5 | trail media on the internet. Again, link in the show notes. Also in the show notes, |
| 1:50.5 | links and discount codes with the best brands and trail running, Speedland, Osprey, |
| 1:55.6 | never second and keep tone IQ. We appreciate their support very much and we would appreciate it if you check them out too. |
| 2:02.7 | Thanks so much for listening. |
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