Free Trail, fam, welcome back to the show. Of course, I am your host, Dylan Bowman,

and we are back with our annual end-of-year podcast to review and celebrate the 2023 year in trail running. As usual for the third year in a row, Corinne Malcolm is my co-host here to help break it all down. Free Trails Editor and Chief Trails Society co-host, great coach in the sport and my thought partner.

She is back and better than ever to close another season.

I run through all the categories that we banter about at the beginning of the episode,

so I won't repeat them here.

Instead, what I just wanted to say before getting to the show is that this podcast is now,

surprisingly, almost four years old.

It's hard to believe, but I think we posted our first episode in December of 2019.

We were very inconsistent to start, and then I really just fell in love with the show

and doing it during the pandemic.

And slowly but surely and shockingly, it has sort of become my job.

And Freed Trail has slowly become my life's work.

And many of you know that it's just a dream come true.

As a longtime lifelong sports radio guy, I've always dreamed of having my own show. And it really is an

honor and a privilege to have this platform and to do this show every single week. I don't say it

enough. So I just wanted to say here that I deeply, deeply appreciate each and every one of you

for listening to the show and to the other

shows in the Free Trail Network. If it's not clear, this is just so fun for me. I love the sport.

I love my job. And I so appreciate everyone who listens to the show and or who supports us

in some way. We work incredibly hard and you guys make it worth it every single

day. So I just wanted to acknowledge that publicly here as we approach the end of the year.

Of course, we couldn't make this our life's work without our partners who make our efforts

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