Hey friends. Welcome to the free trail podcast. Of course, I'm your host, Dylan Bowman, here today with Mr. Cole Watson, the champion

of the Canyons 100K, which unfolded in Auburn, California last weekend. Cole is now local to the

Auburn slash Sacramento area, but he grew up in rural Oregon. So we begin by talking about

his upbringing and Oregon running culture broadly.

We talk about his frustrating collegiate career, his exposure to trail running upon moving to Ashland.

We talk about some recent adjustments he's been making to his training, the canyons race execution.

We look ahead towards Western states and a lot more. I hope you guys enjoy the

conversation. Big gratitude as always to Speedland for being the presenting sponsor of the show.

Big ups to our guy, Speedland athlete Don Reichelt who's out suffering on the Kokodona 250

course right now in Arizona. Speedland founders Dave and Kevin are there in person, living the

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