Hey, fam, welcome to the free trail podcast. Of course, I'm your host, Dylan Bowman. Always grateful for your time and

attention. Glad to have you here. Today, joined by the 2022 UTMB champion, the American Trail

superstar living in France. Katie Shide returns for her second appearance on the program.

The first time Katie was here, she was just an up-and-coming,

lesser-known quantity on the global professional trail-running landscape. Now she returns to the

show as a household name, a UTMB champion with still infinite potential to continue advancing

her already incredible career.

Of course, this conversation is dominated by talk of her victory at UTMB,

but we also spent time chatting about her previous two finishes at the race and the ways in which

they informed her performance this year.

We talked about her recent coaching

change and how that adjustment impacted her preparation and her feeling of being in potentially

the best shape of her life. And of course, we talk about all the details of the incredible

win, the back and forth competition with Marianne Hogan, and what it means to her to be part of

ultra history as a UTMB champion.

I am super happy for Katie.

I'm really impressed by her as a person and as an athlete.

And I'm glad she was willing to come give us the full story here on the pot.

As usual, a big thank you to Speedland, the presenting sponsor of the Freetrow podcast.

Without saying too much, we are in the final weeks of the SLHSV, the second shoe in the

Speedland Arsenal before we move to pre-order of the forthcoming third model whose name I can't reveal yet.

We've been working on it for the last six or eight months.

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