BREAKING NEWS: Jenn Lichter & Adam Merry Sign with All Condition Gear (ACG)
The Freetrail Podcast with Dylan Bowman
Dylan Bowman
4.8 • 866 Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
This is an emergency episode to share some breaking news, Jenn Lichter and Adam Merry sign pro contracts with All Conditions Gear (ACG), filling out their growing roster of top global talent. Both Jenn and Adam are making their 2026 debut and their ACG debut at the Black Canyon 100k in two weeks.
Chapters:
06:57 Personal Updates and Life Changes
09:58 Transitioning to New Partnerships
12:30 The Energy at ACG and Brand Support
15:24 Behind the Scenes of Contract Negotiations
18:16 Training for Black Canyon
20:55 Race Strategy and Mindset
23:56 Equipment Choices for Race Day
26:25 Final Thoughts and Looking Ahead
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, fam, welcome to the free trial podcast. Of course, I'm your loving host, Dylan Bowman here today with a bit of an emergency episode to break some news. |
| 0:21.8 | Jen Lictor and Adam Mary have both signed new pro contracts with All Conditions gear, |
| 0:26.6 | filling out their growing roster of top global talent. |
| 0:30.2 | In addition to Jen and Adam, it is also being announced today that Takako Takamura and Heroki |
| 0:35.5 | Kai, two of Japan's top trail athletes are also joining the |
| 0:39.5 | All Conditions. Racing Department, big new developments continuing to emerge from ACG after the |
| 0:46.5 | Gorge waterfalls and Broken Arrow sponsorship announcements now a significant expansion of the |
| 0:52.5 | athlete roster. There are major moves being made in |
| 0:56.2 | Beaverton that could shape at least the short-term future of a lot of things in the sport. |
| 1:01.8 | Exciting times and we talk all about it here today with both Jen and Adam. We start with |
| 1:07.8 | personal updates and some life changes for both of them before moving forward |
| 1:13.6 | and talking about this very exciting new partnership. We cover the energy at ACG at the moment. |
| 1:19.3 | We go behind the scenes of the contract negotiation. And then once we've covered that in totality, |
| 1:26.7 | we pivot and look to the future. |
| 1:28.6 | Both Jen and Adam are making their 2026 season debuts and their ACG debuts at the Black Canyon |
| 1:35.2 | 100K in less than two weeks at this point. |
| 1:38.7 | So we also talk about training for this massively important and competitive golden ticket race. We talk about |
| 1:45.4 | race strategy and mindset, equipment choices for race day, whether or not Jen would take a golden |
| 1:51.9 | ticket, because obviously Adam would, and a lot more. Before we launch in, it is also sort of a |
| 1:58.6 | breaking news day on the free trail front. We are excited to turn our occasional news show rest day into a weekly live stream starting |
| 2:07.3 | tonight as this episode is airing. |
| 2:09.6 | That is right. |
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