Lauren Gregory | Rookie of the Year
The Freetrail Podcast with Dylan Bowman
Dylan Bowman
5 • 773 Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2024
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Lauren Gregory is a pro athlete for Nike Trail living in New England. This season, Lauren had a big breakthrough in her professional career, notching three top-10 performances in Golden Trail World Series races, including an amazing 2nd place finish at the World Final in October. She has a huge career ahead of her and we're excited to host her on the podcast.
Topics discussed:
- Lauren's background and history with sport
- Her bronze medal from the 2017 Junior Mountain Running World Championship
- Winning an NCAA Cross Country National Championship
- Signing with Nike and the realities of going pro
- The Trail Team and how it's onboarded new athletes to trail running
- The advantages and disadvantages of living on the East Coast
- Her coach Ben True, and he's influenced her training
- Her 2024 season and reasons for the success
- Goals for the future
- A lot more!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey fam, welcome to the free trail podcast. Of course, I am your host, Dylan Bowman. And if you're hearing this, that means you are not in the member-only feed. It's all good. Don't worry about it. But we would very much appreciate |
| 0:26.9 | it if you would consider signing up for Free Trail Pro. As a subscriber, you're going to get ad-free |
| 0:32.1 | versions of this show, along with a bunch of member-only content. I'm going to be doing AMAs and having important and |
| 0:39.8 | unfiltered conversations with the pretrial team, community members, and special guests |
| 0:45.3 | regularly there on the private feed. Your free trail membership will also give you access to |
| 0:50.8 | our extremely active Slack community of international trail runners of all levels. |
| 0:56.0 | You'll get early access to all of our merch and events, exclusive discounts with our brand partners, |
| 1:01.9 | and a lot more, including some very exciting things to be announced very soon. |
| 1:07.8 | Membership is only $96 for the year, and you can learn more at freetrail.com forward |
| 1:12.5 | slash pro or at the link in the show notes. |
| 1:19.3 | Today, we're talking to Lauren Gregory, the young next-gen phenom, who had potentially the most |
| 1:24.7 | standout sub-ultradististance season by any American here in |
| 1:28.3 | 2024 crushing it domestically in the spring and summer. |
| 1:31.8 | Lauren had a huge fall in winter racing against world-class competition, a third place at |
| 1:37.0 | the Headlands 27K, sixth place at Mammoth Trailfest, and a huge second place at the Golden Trail |
| 1:42.2 | World Final in October over in Switzerland. |
| 1:46.1 | Lauren then wrap things up with a win at the Dirt Circus 10K a few weeks ago in Arkansas, |
| 1:51.0 | heading into 2025 with a ton of momentum. Admittedly, I didn't know much about Lauren going |
| 1:57.5 | into this conversation, but I'm now a big fan and really look forward to following |
| 2:01.5 | her career in years to come. Some topics we discussed. Lauren's background and history with |
| 2:06.9 | sport. We talk about her bronze medal from the 2017 Junior Mountain Running World Championships. |
| 2:12.5 | We talk about winning in NCAA cross-country national championship with their team at the University of Arkansas. |
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