Rest Day | Gorge x ACG, Pacific Trails Cancellation, JFK & Ultra Trail Cape Town Preview
The Freetrail Podcast with Dylan Bowman
Dylan Bowman
4.8 • 866 Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Welcome to Rest Day, Freetrail's occasional news pod covering the latest happenings in trail running. This week, we're joined by Adam Merry to talk through the following topics:
- Pacific Trails by UTMB Cancellation
- Gorge Waterfalls new multi-year partnership with All Conditions Gear
- David Kilgore's departure from the Team Manager role at On
- JFK & Ultra Trail Cape Town previews
- Grab a trail running pack from Osprey
- Use code FREETRAIL25 for 25% off your first order of NEVERSECOND nutrition at never2.com
- Go to ketone.com/freetrail30 for 30% off a subscription of Ketone IQ
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hey, fam, welcome to rest day, free trails occasional news show that's getting a little bit more |
| 0:18.6 | consistent where we talk about the latest happenings |
| 0:21.6 | in trail running the best sport in the world this week adam mary is in the co-host chair |
| 0:26.5 | the boulder boys podcaster who got rave reviews from his trailgating prowess at the world |
| 0:33.2 | championships we are back together to bang through a hot docket today. We start by talking about |
| 0:39.2 | the cancellation of Pacific Trails by UTMB down in Santa Barbara, a race that Adam had been registered |
| 0:46.4 | for. Then we talk about the big news in free trail land, the announcement of a multi-year |
| 0:51.5 | partnership between all conditions gear ACG and our race gorge, |
| 0:57.2 | waterfalls, which actually then led to more advancement in the conversation that we've had |
| 1:03.0 | in the last two rest days with Corinne Malcolm and Tim Tollifson, respectively, just about |
| 1:08.4 | events in the sport in general and where we stand. |
| 1:12.3 | We briefly also discussed David Kilgore's departure from the team manager role at On, |
| 1:18.4 | opening one of the coolest jobs in the industry, if you ask me. |
| 1:22.7 | And then we close by previewing the JFK 50-miler and the Ultra Trail Cape Town, |
| 1:27.3 | both taking place this weekend as the season slowly comes to a close. |
| 1:33.0 | Speaking of which, go play fantasy for both races at fantasy.com. |
| 1:39.1 | And I meant to mention this in the episode itself, but Trail Runner of the Year is opening soon for voting. |
| 1:45.9 | Actually, that will take place on Tuesday, December 2nd, also on fantasy.freetrail.com. |
| 1:51.7 | So mark your calendars. |
| 1:53.4 | We've got a lot of new, cool things in the works for this year's end of season awards. |
| 1:58.5 | And as usual, voting is open to everybody, including you, |
| 2:02.9 | the amazing listeners of the free trail podcast. We'll tell you more about that soon. For now, |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Dylan Bowman, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Dylan Bowman and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

