Craig Thornley, Catherine Poletti, Jamil Coury, Tim Tollefson, & David Callahan | TrailCon Events Panel
The Freetrail Podcast with Dylan Bowman
Dylan Bowman
5 • 773 Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
On June 26th, Freetrail helped to launch TrailCon in partnership with Doug Emslie and Brendan Madigan - an industry conference focused on the present and future of the sport. Over the next four weeks, we will release the audio from each panel, starting today with the events panel.
Our panelists:
- Craig Thornley - Race Director, Western States 100
- Catherine Poletti - Co-Founder, UTMB
- Jamil Coury - CEO Aravaipa Running
- Tim Tollefson - Race Director, Mammoth Trail Fest
- David Callahan - Co-CEO, UltraSignup
Sponsors:
- Join our Nutrition Club with The Feed and get $80 to spend on nutrition
- Use code freetrail10 for 10% off Speedland Footwear
- Grab a trail running pack from Osprey
- Use code FT15 for 15% off Gnarly Nutrition
- Go to ketone.com/freetrail30 for 30% off a subscription of Ketone IQ
Freetrail Links: Website | Freetrail Pro | Patreon | Instagram | YouTube | Freetrail Experts
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, fam, welcome to the free trail podcast. Of course, I am your loving host, Dylan Bowman, and today we will begin rolling out the audio recordings from TrailCon, the industry conference Free Trail helped to launch |
| 0:26.5 | in partnership with our friends and co-founders, Doug Emsley, and Brendan. The event took place on June |
| 0:32.7 | 26th in Olympic Valley, California, in between Broken Arrow and Western States race weekends. |
| 0:39.0 | We had a total of four panels over the course of a couple hours, an events panel, a media |
| 0:44.0 | panel, a Brandon Athlete panel, and a retail panel. |
| 0:48.0 | We're going to again begin to roll the audio out from these each Friday, starting today |
| 0:53.5 | with the events panel. Our guests on the panel |
| 0:55.7 | were Craig Thornley, race director of the Western States 100, Katrine Poulett-T, co-founder of UTMB, |
| 1:02.1 | Jamil Curry, the CEO of Air Viper Running, Tim Tullifson, the race director of the Mammoth |
| 1:06.8 | Trail Fest, and David Callahan, the co-CEO over at Ultra Signup. |
| 1:12.3 | A quick note for me. |
| 1:13.5 | We did learn a lot from this initial soft launch, the taste of TrailCon. |
| 1:18.0 | We received a lot of good feedback, which we plan to implement into next year. |
| 1:22.2 | The official launch of TrailCon in June 2025, we will have more news about what it'll look like next year as we |
| 1:29.4 | begin to synthesize that feedback from participants and plan for what we hope to be an |
| 1:34.5 | important annual gathering of our community and of our industry. And we really do hope you will |
| 1:41.2 | join us. Before we get to it, of course, the free trail podcast is only made possible with the support of our great partners. |
| 1:47.6 | Of course, our amazing title sponsor, The Feed, and our supporting partners, Speedland, Osprey, gnarly nutrition, and ketone IQ. |
| 1:55.8 | Make sure you visit the show notes for links and discount codes to use on these great brands and their products. |
| 2:01.3 | Hope you enjoy the TrailCon Events panel. |
| 2:03.7 | Next week we'll publish the media panel with another star-studded group. |
| 2:09.1 | Thank you so much for listening. |
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