Tarawera Post-Race Recap & Analysis

The Freetrail Podcast with Dylan Bowman

Dylan Bowman

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

5 • 773 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Freetrail's coverage of the 2025 Tarawera by UTMB! Set against the beautiful backdrop of Rotorua, NZ, an outdoor and trail sport mecca known for its rolling hills, thermal pools, and beautiful lakes, Tarawera plays host to four different race distances — 100m, 102k, 50k, & 21k. We'll be covering as much as we can from all races, with a particular focus on the 102k where four Golden Tickets to Western States are on the line.

This is our official 102k pre-race show discussing the history of Tarawera, the course, the top contenders, and our predictions for how things might unfold.

Follow along for coverage all weekend and follow us on IG for race day coverage from the course.

Thanks to HOKA for supporting the show!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Okay, welcome back to the Tara Ware post-race show trailgating here.
0:20.4	Rotorua, New Zealand.
0:21.5	My name is Dylan Bowman, joined by my trusty co-host Corinne Malcolm.
0:25.6	Corinne, good morning.
0:27.3	Morning.
0:28.0	Are we all exhausted here in studio today?
0:30.2	I feel like we sound as haggard as we look or we look as haggard as we feel.
0:35.3	I'm not sure what it is, but we are falling apart at the seams.
0:38.7	You know, but that's the consequences for having the best day ever yesterday. Was it not so,
0:44.3	so fun? It was, it was fun. And we got to do a little bit of what we love. You know, we got to run.
0:49.6	We also got to spectate and we got to cheer on people and we got to, they let us touch mics,
0:58.6	even though we weren't really supposed to yesterday. So we got to do everything, which is very,
1:03.2	very fun. Honestly, I had such a blast yesterday and we're going to talk all about it. But as you just referenced, we both got to run the 50Ks yesterday. We'll be providing our personal race reports.
1:09.3	But I just have to say, how fun is it to actually come and cover a race as we've done a million
1:14.5	times and actually get to participate?
1:16.8	It is.
1:17.4	I have, I feel like I've been in this boat maybe before where you haven't, where it's like
1:21.6	you've like you've suckered me into doing commentary for 12 hours and then I run the 50K
1:25.8	the next day, all a gorge last year.
1:28.1	And I will tell you it generally feels pretty horrible.
1:31.4	So I knew what to expect maybe going into this race weekend, but it was really cool.
1:36.3	You know, we came all the way to New Zealand, getting to experience 50 plus kilometers
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