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The Freetrail Podcast with Dylan Bowman

Rest Day | Trail Running News & Current Events

The Freetrail Podcast with Dylan Bowman

Dylan Bowman

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

5773 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Corrine Malcolm returns to talk through some news in the trail running world.

 
Topics:
  • Learnings from the Stian Angermund episode
  • Athlete free agency announcements
  • Arc of Attrition and Hong Kong 100 results
  • Way too early Gorge Waterfalls 100k preview
  • Upcoming coverage of Black Canyon 100k and Tarawera
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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 loving host, Dylan Bowman. And today we are joined again by

0:21.0

Corinne Malcolm for a news heavy episode talking about some of the current events in trail running.

0:27.0

It is early 2025, but there is already a lot to talk about. So today, Corin and I come together

0:34.3

to do just that, including reacting to the Steon Angermund episode that we released last week.

0:39.5

I propose some potential adjustments that can be made to ensure we all have confidence in anti-doping

0:46.6

protocols. Corinne, of course, is very knowledgeable on the subject. I think she actually leads a lot

0:51.7

of the anti-doping efforts as a board member of the Pro Trail Runners Association.

0:56.2

So we did our best to use Stion's case as a moment of learning, processing a lot of it together in today's show.

1:04.0

Then we talk about some of the recent free agency announcements, where the top talent is landing, and generally what this season's free agency says about the brand

1:13.1

and product landscape at this particular moment. We discussed the beginnings of the World Trail

1:17.7

majors in the UTMB World Series the last couple of weekends at the Hong Kong 100K and the arc

1:24.1

of attrition going through some of the results there. We look ahead to the amazing start list that is currently assembling at the Gorge Waterfalls 100K,

1:33.3

the race that Free Trail co-owns and that will serve as the Team USA qualifier for the Long Trail World Championships

1:40.3

occurring in Spain this coming fall.

1:43.3

And then we close by talking about the race

1:46.1

coverage that we have coming up at both Black Canyon and Tara Ware so you can be informed

1:51.2

as to where to expect us around these huge and very important early season golden ticket races.

1:58.6

The 2025 racing season is officially underway holy smokes all gas no breaks for

2:06.4

the foreseeable future best sport ever quick programming note we plan to do a lot more of these

2:12.7

newsy shows here in 2025 i'm experimenting with calling this new franchise Rest Day, a name we used to

2:19.4

use on a different project. But we plan to do a lot of these. And we plan to probably drop the

2:25.8

episodes mostly on Mondays, a day that a lot of people take off from running in a time that

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