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The Freetrail Podcast with Dylan Bowman

Brendan Madigan, Mike Ambrose, Ted Knudsen & Wes Allen | TrailCon Retail Panel

The Freetrail Podcast with Dylan Bowman

Dylan Bowman

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

5773 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

On June 26th, Freetrail helped to launch TrailCon in partnership with Doug Emslie and Brendan Madigan - an industry conference focused on the present and future of the sport. Over four weeks, we are releasing the audio from each panel. So far we've shared the events panel and the media panel, and the brand & athlete panel. This week we're sharing the retail panel.

 

Our panelists:

  • Wes Allen (Moderator) - Owner, Sunlight Mountain Sports
  • Brendan Madigan - Owner, Alpenglow Sports
  • Mike Ambrose - Country Manager USA, NNormal
  • Ted Knudsen - Owner, San Francisco Running Company

Sponsors:

Freetrail Links: Website | Freetrail Pro | Patreon | Instagram | YouTube | Freetrail Experts

 

Dylan Links: Instagram | Twitter | LinkedIn | Strava

 
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Transcript

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0:00.0

Free trailers. Welcome back to the show. Of course, I'm your host, Dylan Bowman, and today we

0:19.1

conclude the rollout of our panel discussions from TrailCon, the Trail Running Industry Conference that we helped to launch back in June

0:26.7

of this year with our great friends and partners, Doug Emsley and Brendan Madigan. Over the last four

0:32.6

weeks, we released recordings from the events panel, the media panel, and the Brandon Athlete Panel.

0:38.1

Three amazing discussions that I felt lucky to moderate.

0:42.4

So if you missed any of those, make sure you go back and listen.

0:45.8

Today, you will hear the retail panel with our moderator, Wes Allen, the owner of

0:51.2

sunlight sports in Cody, Wyoming, somebody who has seen as a truth teller

0:56.2

and influential voice in the outdoor industry generally and especially around retail-related

1:02.6

topics.

1:03.5

So we were honored that he would guide the conversation today.

1:07.1

Our panelists are similarly talented.

1:09.9

Mr. Brendan, the owner of Alenglowe sports and one of my

1:13.0

co-founders in trailcon mike ambrose the u.s country manager for normal one of the newest and most

1:18.6

exciting brands and trail running and ted canuteson the owner of the san francisco running company

1:24.5

here in the bay area we hope you enjoyed the trailcon conversations. Please do

1:29.5

visit trailconference.com. We're going to have more information posted there soon as we prepare

1:35.1

for the official launch of the event in Olympic Valley, June 2025. If you're a brand and

1:41.7

interested in partnering with us on the 2025 TrailCon, please do email me directly Dylan at freetrail.com.

1:50.3

Thank you so much for listening.

1:52.3

The Free Trail podcast is grateful for our presenting partner, the feed, the one-stop shop for all your trail running nutrition and training gear needs.

2:02.5

Your boy just placed a big order of some of my favorite products over at the feed.com. First, I got a few boxes of the Morton

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