Joe Gray | Broken Arrow Ascent Post-Race Interview

The Freetrail Podcast with Dylan Bowman

Dylan Bowman

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

5 • 773 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Dylan sits down with Joe Gray (HOKA) for a post-race interview after his incredible performance at the Broken Arrow Ascent. Joe placed second, proving he is still on top of his game and one of the best in the world. Joe punched his ticket to worlds for team USA for the 17th year in a row, so unbelievably impressive.

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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. Joe Gizi, you legend.
1:30.7	The ageless wonder, the North American goat mountain runner here in studio after an amazing
1:37.2	second place finishing the Ascent today.
1:39.1	How are you feeling, bro?
1:40.4	Good, man.
1:41.3	Good.
1:44.1	I wanted to prove some people wrong, man. I think a lot of people didn't have me on the team or beaten the guys that I beat today. But I knew what I could do.
1:53.8	Of course, you did. Perfect place to start. I want to give you an opportunity to shame me and free trail publicly here. There was some chatter
2:02.5	on Instagram that we had overlooked you in our fantasy favorites post. Hey, shout out to James Luriello.
2:09.2	He definitely, I didn't, I didn't realize it. Like, I'm not on social like a ton these days,
2:13.7	but James had tagged me and I saw the post and I'm like, yeah, they didn't even mention
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