Free Trail, fam, welcome back to the podcast. Thanks so much for being here. Of course, I am your host, Dylan Bowman.

Join today by the great Courtney DeWalter. One of the best trail and ultra runners of all time

returns for her second appearance on the show. Courtney is, of course, coming off an incredible

victory at the Grand Raid, the Diagonal DeFou on Reunion Island, where she won and set the

course record in what I believe to be one of the

greatest performances in ultra running history. Of course, we go deep on Courtney's effort at the

Grand Raid and what went into the performance, but we also talked through the rest of her season,

the story of her running an ultra with her mom and how her mom has supported her throughout

her athletic life. We talk about her FK how her mom has supported her throughout her athletic

life. We talk about her FKT on the collegiate loop, her course record performance at Hard Rock,

and a lot more. Hope you guys enjoy the conversation. As usual, a big thank you to Speedland,

the presenting sponsor of the free trail podcast, as I've been not so subtly teasing the past few

weeks. This coming week is a big one for us at Speedland.

That is because tomorrow, Tuesday, November 8th, begins the pre-order of our new shoe, the G.S. Tam,

the product collaboration we've been working on for the past eight months or so,

named after Mount Tamil Pius and inspired by the

trails of Marin County in Northern California, my favorite place in the world. The GSTAM

is honestly one of the things I am proudest of in my entire career. You guys are going to love

this shoe. We will talk more about the development and the specifics of the product in a

future episode that I think should drop later this week. But here's what I'll tell you now.

Tomorrow you're going to want to visit run speedland.com and pre-order your pair. The shoe is going to

retail for $275. So a significant reduction from the previous products that we've released.

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