Rest Day | Transvulcania Recap, Zegama Preview, Golden Ticket Competitiveness, & Trail Grails
The Freetrail Podcast with Dylan Bowman
Dylan Bowman
4.8 • 866 Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2026
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Two Rest Days this week! As we move into the heart of racing season, there is so much to discuss, so Corrine Malcolm and I will go live tonight and breakdown some important stories unfolding in the sport.
Run of show:
- Transvulcania Recap
- Zegama Preview: Golden Trail World Series kicks off!
- Golden Ticket RCI Recap: Analyzing historical competitiveness
- Ruth Croft vs Miao Yao at Ultra Trail Australia
- Western States and Hardrock Attrition
- Trail Grails: Our favorite current products
- Bonus Miles: Community Spotlight - Bill Schum & Ryan Kennedy (Join Freetrail Pro to access)
We'll be LIVE on YouTube starting at 5pm PT tonight.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, fan, welcome to rest day. |
| 0:16.4 | Show number two this week. |
| 0:17.8 | There's so much news going on, and I had to tag in my most frequent |
| 0:22.7 | collaborator and co-host, Corinne Malcolm. Welcome back to the show. Nice to see you. |
| 0:27.7 | I'm so happy to be here. Best comment ever in the chat. Two rest days in one week. Did we just |
| 0:33.2 | run 250 miles or something? Yes, Jess Kaufman. I feel like I did. We are moving into just the meat |
| 0:40.4 | and the heart of racing season. And as such, there is so much going on. Obviously, |
| 0:44.8 | Coca-Dona kind of took over the entire trail-running consciousness and the entire trail-running |
| 0:49.2 | internet for a week plus. But obviously, Transvaucania happened at the same time. This weekend, the Golden Trail World Series kicks off. |
| 0:57.8 | So we're going to start our show by breaking down those two things looking further down the docket. |
| 1:02.8 | We've got a great stats corner, compliments of our chief analytics department, Travis Longcar, the head of trail technology. So we've got a fun little analysis that |
| 1:13.5 | we're going to do on some of the golden ticket races from the season. We've got a fun little head-to-head |
| 1:18.7 | matchup happening down in Oceana at the UTMB major in that region, Ultra Trail Australia, |
| 1:25.3 | between Ruth Croft and Yao Miao, taken on the 50K down there. |
| 1:29.7 | We've got a little bit of attrition, unfortunately, in both the Western States field and on the |
| 1:34.5 | hard rock side. So we got a lot to get to. And then we're going to close with a new segment, |
| 1:39.1 | Corinne, Trail Grails. I will explain that later in the show, but a new product focus segment here on the show |
| 1:46.6 | that we'll probably implement occasionally. And then we do have a very fun bonus miles here tonight |
| 1:52.3 | before we launch in. So for the free trail pro members, we are going to be doing a fun little community |
| 1:58.0 | spotlight of two long time free trailers, Bill Shum, who saved my bacon again for the second time of my career. |
| 2:04.6 | We talked about it on bonus miles on Monday, but he was in the ER with me at Hames down in |
| 2:10.4 | Los Alamos, New Mexico yesterday, and he broke some news about our guy, Ryan Kennedy, |
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