Hey, fam, welcome to the free trail podcast. Of course, I'm your host Dylan Bowman. Hope everyone is doing

great. A bit of a bonus

episode here. What you're about to hear is a live podcast that we recorded a few nights ago at

Boa headquarters in Denver, Colorado. It was a star studded panel to go deep on product, specifically

footwear tech and the design and development process that went into the new GS TAM from Speedland.

I moderated this panel and was joined by Speedland co-founders Dave Dombrown, Kevin Fallon.

We were joined by Speedland athlete Don Reichelt and the director of biomechanics research from Boa,

Mr. Dan Feeney, who had a ton of great contributions

on how product impacts, how our bodies move and perform out on the trails. We talk about

the science of fit, the prototyping and iteration process to arrive at a finished product,

integrating athlete feedback in that process, what we know and what we don't

know about how carbon plates impact trail performance. We talk about what sets the GS-TAM

apart in a crowded trail footwear marketplace and how Don used a prototype of the GS-TAM

to set three world records just about a week ago.

We had about 80 people in attendance for this live taping.

It was awesome.

We did a fun happy hour beforehand.

And then at the end, as you'll hear in this podcast, we launch into a Q&A with the audience

who had some great questions for our panelists.

A couple disclaimers here at the beginning.

First, my audio is a little wonky for the first 20 minutes of this podcast.

There wasn't anything we could do to fix it after the fact.

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