David Roche | Western States 2025 Pre-Race Interview
The Freetrail Podcast with Dylan Bowman
Dylan Bowman
5 • 773 Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
This interview is part of Freetrail's coverage of the 2025 Western States 100, the most important trail running event in North America. Our shows and athlete interviews are hosted each day by Dylan Bowman who sits down to talk with some of the favorites who are racing this year.
In this interview, Dylan talks to professional runner, coach, podcast host, and beloved character in our sport, David Roche. David Roche is a deeply respected personality in running who first grew to fame as a coach, and cemented his status as one of the best athletes in our sport when he won and broke the 19 year record at Leadville last August. As someone who gives back to this sport as much as anyone, we wish him the best of luck at this Western States debut.
Make sure to tune into our final live pre-race show leading into the 2025 Western States. We’ll be live at 3:30pm tonight both on YouTube and broadcast on the Coffeebar patio. Tonight’s show will conclude our pre-race show coverage, before we set our sites on the official broadcast where Dylan will be commentating, and we’ll be providing photo and video coverage of the race for the Freetrail social channels. Make sure to follow along here and @runfreetrail on Instagram.
Make sure to play Freetrail's own fantasy trail running at https://fantasy.freetrail.com/events and pick 10-deep for Western States. Fantasy winners this week will receive a head to toe trail kit from HOKA as well as other sweet prizes from Freetrail and brand partners like Ketone IQ and Neversecond.
Our Western States coverage is brought to you by our good friends at HOKA. We're grateful for their generous support and belief in Freetrail.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to free trails coverage of the 2025 Western States 100, the grand daddy of Trail 100 mile racing celebrating its 52nd year in beautiful |
| 0:22.9 | Olympic Valley, California. I'm Dylan Bowman and the whole free trail team is here on the ground |
| 0:27.7 | doing daily live shows in partnership with our good friends at Hoka and we couldn't be more |
| 0:33.6 | excited. It doesn't need to be stated, but Western States is truly one of the great sporting |
| 0:39.2 | events in the world. It's been a major part of my life for the last 15 years, and it's an honor |
| 0:43.9 | to be able to bring our coverage to the global trail running community. As I said, our coverage |
| 0:49.1 | all week is made possible with support from Hokel the brand born from Trail Running, the presenting |
| 0:54.0 | sponsor of Western |
| 0:55.1 | States and the makers of some of the most popular footwear and apparel products on the market. |
| 1:01.2 | You'll hear more from Hoka during the show, but please visit Hoka.com to check out all of their |
| 1:06.1 | amazing trail products. Best sport ever, best week ever, best race ever. Western states is here. |
| 1:15.6 | Thanks for joining us. |
| 1:27.1 | And here we are back again with the great David Roshan studio. David, how are you feeling |
| 1:32.0 | ahead of your Western States debut? I am so excited and just such an honor to be here. I say it |
| 1:39.1 | every single time I'm associated with you in harmony and the team. It's like free trail is everything. So thank you. This is, I mean, you know, I'm associated with you in harmony and the team. It's like free trail is everything. |
| 1:45.2 | So thank you. |
| 1:46.7 | This is, I mean, you know, I'm, I'm living in the house that free trail built. |
| 1:50.2 | So thank you. |
| 1:51.8 | Well, you know, the feeling is obviously mutual. |
| 1:53.9 | Free trail and swap hand in hand through the fires of hell. |
| 2:00.1 | We've had some fun talks offline at different moments of our lives. |
| 2:04.2 | You've gotten me through a lot of tough times. |
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