Rachel Entrekin | Two-Time Cocodona 250 Champion

The Freetrail Podcast with Dylan Bowman

Dylan Bowman

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

5 • 773 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Rachel Entrekin is a rising star trail runner living in Conifer, CO. She burst onto the trail scene last year with a win at the Cocodona 250. She returned this year to win again, set a new course record, improve her own winning time by 10hrs, and finish 4th overall. This is her first appearance on the podcast

Topics discussed:

How Rachel is grappling with her recent success and rising profil
Rachel's background growing up and discovering the sport in Alabama
Racing timed events and the skills that apply to the trails
Her life changing experience at the 2024 Cocodona 250
The transformative performance at the 2025 Cocodona 250
High Lonesome
Rachel's unsponsored status and the economic realities of racing professionally
Look ahead to the rest of her season
A lot more!

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, fam, welcome to the free trial podcast. Of course, I'm your host, Dylan Bowman. And today we are joined by Rachel Entrican the rising star and emerging fan favorite
0:23.0	in the sport. He was riding an incredible wave of success and momentum, though she has been in the
0:30.1	sport for a long time. It has only been in the last couple of years where she has really broken
0:34.7	through. Rachel won the Kokadona 250 in 2024 and then returned this year to destroy the course
0:42.4	record.
0:43.1	She improved her own winning time by 10 hours and finished fourth overall.
0:48.9	So we're joined today by a back-to-back Kokadona champion.
0:54.0	And then just a couple of weeks ago,
0:55.4	Rachel added another big result to her resume, a win in course record at the high lonesome
1:00.2	100. Rachel and I officially met for the first time at Western States. And it's great to finally get
1:07.8	around the show. Some topics we discuss how Rachel is grappling with her recent success
1:13.7	and her rising star profile. We talk about Rachel's background growing up and discovering
1:19.4	the sport in Alabama of all places. We talk about Rachel's history racing timed events and
1:25.3	the skills she's learned there that apply to the trails.
1:29.0	We talk about our life-changing experience at the 2024 Kokadona.
1:32.8	The magic of Kokadona generally.
1:34.9	Of course, we talk about the 2025 Kokadona, her course record there, which is definitely
1:40.1	one of the performances of the year.
1:42.1	We talk about High Lonesome just a couple weeks ago,
1:44.5	her unsponsored status and the economic realities of trying to compete professionally in the
1:49.9	sport. We look ahead to the rest of her season and a lot more. A couple of notes before we get
1:55.9	started. I am recording a mid-season. Ask me anything for the free trail pro community.
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