David Sinclair | Broken Arrow 46k & Speedgoat 50k Champion
The Freetrail Podcast with Dylan Bowman
Dylan Bowman
4.8 • 866 Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2024
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
David Sinclair is a professional trail runner and ski mountaineer living in Vermont. Though he flies under the radar, David is as talented and capable of a mountain runner as anyone in the USA. This summer he's registered two very impressive victories at the Broken Arrow 46k and the Speedgoat 50k, in addition to an FKT on Mt. Shasta.
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| 0:00.0 | Free Trail fam, welcome back to the podcast. Of course, I am your host, Dylan Bowman, and today |
| 0:19.7 | we are joined by David Sinclair, the freakish Of course, I am your host, Dylan Bowman, and today we are joined by David |
| 0:21.0 | Sinclair, the freakishly talented, though, somewhat enigmatic mountain runner, Nordic skiers, |
| 0:28.0 | ski mountaineer from Vermont, the Beast Coast. I caught up with David a couple of weeks ago |
| 0:33.7 | after he won and set the course record at the Speedgoat 50K in Snowbird, Utah, |
| 0:39.2 | in a follow up to his convincing victory, the Broken Arrow 46K, the Speedgoat win was |
| 0:44.6 | especially impressive to me, breaking Adam Peterman's mark by seven minutes and on a race |
| 0:50.9 | course where some of the best of our generation have posted really fast times, |
| 0:56.4 | including Jim Walsley, Sage Canadae, Killian Jornay, Hayden Hawks, and many others for David to |
| 1:03.3 | break that mark so convincingly I was pretty mind-blown, especially witnessing it in person myself. There isn't a lot of information about David |
| 1:13.1 | out there on the internet, so it was great to have him here on the podcast and get to know him |
| 1:17.8 | a little bit better. We talk about David's personal and athletic background. We talk about the |
| 1:22.4 | practical application of lactate testing in training, the realities of being a high-level Nordic skier, which he was |
| 1:29.2 | as a kid. We talk about David's transition to running and ski mountaineering. We talk about his |
| 1:35.0 | ski FKT on Mount Shasta. We talk about another fast lap he did this summer on Mount Whitney. |
| 1:41.7 | We talk about his 2024 racing season, including both the Broken Arrow and Speed |
| 1:45.5 | Goat victories. We talk about the potential for David to represent Team USA and the Olympics as a ski |
| 1:51.2 | mountaineer and a lot more. It was an awesome conversation. Super, super fun to finally get David here |
| 1:57.9 | on the show. Before we get to it, a quick note to inform you all that this week, we open registration |
| 2:02.8 | for the 2025 edition of the Big Alta in its second year. |
| 2:07.4 | The Big Alta is back, March 22nd and March 23rd, with a 50K and 28K set here in my neighborhood, |
| 2:15.9 | Marinwood, California on some of Northern California's most |
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