Courtney Dauwalter & Kevin Schmidt | 2023 UTMB Pre-Race Interview
The Freetrail Podcast with Dylan Bowman
Dylan Bowman
4.8 • 866 Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
This interview is part of Good Morning, Mont Blanc. This is the inaugural year of Freetrail's daily morning show, kicking off with the 20th anniversary of the Ultra Trail Mont Blanc (UTMB), the most important global event in the sport of trail running. The show is hosted each day by professional athlete, Dylan Bowman. Every afternoon, Dylan interviews top athletes and favorites for the races.
Dylan sits down with Courtney Dauwalter & Kevin Schmidt ahead of Courtney's race at the 2023 UTMB. They are joined by Ryan Thrower who recently ran the Swiss Alps 100 with Kevin. We've all heard thousands of pre-race interviews with Courtney and we wanted to do this one a little differently, involving her partner and long-time crew chief, Kevin. They talk about crewing each other, Kevin's top secret spreadsheets, how Courtney's feeling after her two hugely impressive performances at the Western States 100 and Hardrock 100 earlier this summer.
For more on Courtney, check out our Day 1 of Good Morning, Mont Blanc, where Dylan and Corrine talk about the Top-10 Storylines of the 2023 UTMB; the number 1 storyline they discuss is the Courtney Slam. Additionally, Dylan will be previewing the UTMB race in more depth on the Good Morning, Mont Blanc Day 5 episode, launching Friday.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Free Trail Fam, |
| 0:15.8 | Bonjour from Chamonie, France. |
| 0:18.0 | Of course, I'm your loving host, Dylan Bowman, here to celebrate the 20th |
| 0:21.7 | anniversary of the Ultra Trail de Mont Blanc. It is officially UTMB week, and we are here to enjoy |
| 0:28.1 | the spectacle and share our love for this amazing sport and this amazing event with you, |
| 0:34.6 | the global trail running community, trail fans worldwide. This is a special time |
| 0:39.3 | a year and we are so happy to be here to enjoy it in person. We're going to be doing a daily show |
| 0:44.8 | each morning recording in the heart of Chamonie covering all the major stories of this year's race. |
| 0:50.3 | It is a special week-long series we're calling Good Morning Ma Blanc, which are listening to now. |
| 0:56.5 | Each day will have a star-studded group of rotating co-hosts to share their expert perspectives |
| 1:03.2 | about the fields, the conditions, the races, and the results as they happen throughout the week. |
| 1:09.5 | We're also going to be doing a ton of pre and post race interviews with some of the main |
| 1:13.7 | contenders and the top performers. |
| 1:15.9 | So make sure you're subscribed here or to our YouTube channel so you don't miss a single |
| 1:21.4 | second of our coverage. |
| 1:23.7 | We are grateful for your support. |
| 1:25.1 | We really hope you'll follow along and share it with your friends finally |
| 1:28.8 | thank you to hoka and camelback for making the shows possible this week make sure you play fantasy |
| 1:34.4 | fantasy dot freetrel.com for a chance to win prize packages from these awesome brands thank you all so |
| 1:40.7 | much for listening have an an amazing UTMB week. |
| 1:52.5 | This is a special one. |
| 1:53.7 | Look at all of us here. |
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