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Dylan Bowman: Trail Running at a Crossroads?

Singletrack

Finn Melanson

Wilderness, Trail Running, Sports, Sports News, Mountain Running, Running, Ultrarunning, Ultra Running, News, Ultramarathon

5897 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Text us your thoughts about this episode or ideas for future episodes! Dylan Bowman returns to the Singletrack Podcast for a wide-ranging, in-person conversation from our Olympic Valley, CA studio just days before the 2025 Western States 100. As the founder of Freetrail and a key figure behind TrailCon, Dylan has spent the last few years shaping the conversation around what trail and ultrarunning can—and should—become. In this episode, we dive deep into the evolution of the sport, how media ...

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0:00.0

We're officially live.

0:01.0

We're officially live.

0:02.0

Do you want to throw, can we throw it up on the screen here, like the chat and stuff?

0:06.0

Yeah, you can move the chat window over.

0:07.0

All right, we'll do a little station identification here.

0:10.0

This is the WEEEI, Red Sox Radio Network.

0:13.0

I've got Joe Castiglione, I am GER, I'm just kidding.

0:15.0

Finn Mullance and Brad Horning, this is the single track podcast back for another week of Western States coverage.

0:26.0

This looks like it's becoming a tradition. We've got Dylan Bowman in studio with us.

0:31.2

Dylan, man, how's it going? Gentlemen, what an honor. They have to kick off the coverage with you guys.

0:43.4

Thanks for helping us get through some tech, Dealeyely bobs we're getting it sorted though it's um as you know it's a continual work in progress always is the first one of the weekend you know at least you

0:48.3

got somebody who knows the trials and tribulations of podcasting and live streaming technology in studio.

0:55.2

I'm a sympathetic character here on the couch with you guys.

0:58.1

Dylan cut us exactly 16 minutes of slack here.

1:01.6

First question, we are coming off the heels of the Broken Arrow Sky Race weekend.

1:07.8

What's that out to you?

1:09.4

What a weekend.

1:10.4

I mean, it was definitely the best and most

1:12.7

exciting broken arrow in memory. I've been coming since its inception in 2016, 2017. And I mean

1:21.0

that in a couple of different ways. Number one, man, the race operation, an organization had their

1:27.2

work cut out for them.

1:28.4

The ascent was shortened on Friday.

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