Christian Allen | Broken Arrow Ascent Champion Interview
The Freetrail Podcast with Dylan Bowman
Dylan Bowman
5 • 773 Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Dylan sits down with Christian Allen (Nike) for a post-race interview after his incredible win today at the Broken Arrow Ascent. Christian is a mountain athlete, 2:10 marathoner, and loving dad of 3 with number 4 on the way.
Christian will be headed to Spain in September to represent Team USA for the first time, racing the Uphill. In addition to worlds, he has a stacked racing calendar lined up for the fall, tune in to hear his plans.
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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 sporting |
| 0:39.2 | events in the world. It's been a major part of my life for the last 15 years, and it's an honor |
| 0:43.9 | to be able to bring our coverage to the global trail running community. As I said, our coverage |
| 0:49.1 | all week is made possible with support from Hokel the brand born from Trail Running, the presenting |
| 0:54.0 | sponsor of Western |
| 0:55.1 | States and the makers of some of the most popular footwear and apparel products on the market. |
| 1:01.2 | You'll hear more from Hoka during the show, but please visit Hoka.com to check out all of their |
| 1:06.1 | amazing trail products. Best sport ever, best week ever, best race ever. |
| 1:13.4 | Western States is here. |
| 1:15.6 | Thanks for joining us. |
| 1:26.6 | Joining us now the 2025 Broken arrow ascent champion christian allen slim the runner what's up dog |
| 1:34.5 | congratulations thank you thank you how goes it dude i've been uh we've been trying to like |
| 1:38.7 | organize a real podcast together at least like at the end of last year we were trying to make it |
| 1:43.1 | happen this is i think our first time doing recorded, at least one-on-one. |
| 1:47.6 | We did sort of something at Broken Arrow last year, but I'm glad we're doing this, dude. |
| 1:51.7 | Me too, dude. |
| 1:52.3 | I'm glad you stopped ghosting me and got me. |
| 1:54.2 | I'm not just kidding. |
| 1:55.1 | Yeah, right. |
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