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The Freetrail Podcast with Dylan Bowman

Freetrail Friday 2/18 | Navigating the Changing Landscape in Trail Running

The Freetrail Podcast with Dylan Bowman

Dylan Bowman

Ultrarunning, Training, Wellness, Endurance, Health, Running, Commentary, Trailrunning, Sports, Run

5773 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Join us at 12pm PST for Freetrail Friday where we’ve got an all-star panel to discuss the present and future of trail running.

— Sabrina Little: Pro runner, writer, & philosophy professor

— Mario Fraioli: Coach, media personality, & thought leader

— Zoë Rom: Editor In Chief, Trail Runner Magazine

— Hosted by Dylan Bowman: Pro runner & Founder of Freetrail

We all know the sport is growing and professionalizing rapidly, so this will be a conversation attempting to assess the current environment and plot a reasonable course forward. We’ll discuss the positives of expansion as well as legitimate areas of concern. As a community, it’s up to us to ensure the spirit and values of our beautiful sport are preserved into the future and this is our attempt to get ahead of issues and hold each other accountable. Who knows, maybe this will become a running series.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay, I think we're live.

0:17.4

Happy Friday, everyone.

0:18.8

Welcome to Free Trail Friday.

0:20.5

Of course, I am Dylan Bowman. Hope you guys are

0:23.0

having an awesome day wherever you are. Very happy to have everybody here, including a star-studded

0:30.1

group of panelists. And today we're going to be tackling a big subject, that being sort of the

0:37.2

present and the future of trail running.

0:39.9

And I am joined by some amazing guests to tackle this big subject with.

0:45.9

I am joined by Mario Fraoli, podcaster, coach, and author of the Morning Shakeout Newsletter,

0:53.8

which I'm sure you're all subscribed to.

0:55.9

I'm joined by Sabrina Little, a professional athlete for Hoka, a writer and a philosophy professor,

1:05.2

and Zoe Rome, the editor-in-chief at Trail Runner magazine and a very strong Trail Runner in her own right. And

1:13.4

I feel quite, I don't know, not unworthy of the mind power, the brain power on this Zoom call here.

1:24.5

But my goal is to help moderate an important conversation, and we're very

1:29.1

happy everybody is here joining us. I want to emphasize on the front end that if you are watching,

1:35.0

get in the chat, make sure you guys are interacting. Again, this is going to be a big topic.

1:40.5

We're talking about sort of the changing landscape and trail running and how we can all

1:44.9

be prepared for the future of the sport and be good stewards of the sport. So if they're burning

1:50.4

topics that you'd like us to tackle in this conversation, please do get in the chat and make

1:55.9

those known and I'll do my best to monitor that. It's a little bit difficult, but I'm getting some external help this week.

2:02.6

So please do make sure you get in the chat.

2:04.4

We'd love to get you guys involved.

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