Tarawera Trailgating | Hayden Hawks, Lotti Brinks, & Ruth Croft Pre-Race Interviews

The Freetrail Podcast with Dylan Bowman

Dylan Bowman

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

5 • 773 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2025

⏱️ 46 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.

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	Hey, fan, welcome to the free trail podcast.
0:18.0	Of course, it's your boy Dylan Bowman recording here in Rotorua, New Zealand,
0:22.8	ahead of the 2025 TerraWara by UTMB.
0:26.2	We are here on the ground doing our trailgating coverage.
0:30.2	Me, Ryan Throer, Corinne Malcolm, here to bring you this great story of a golden ticket race.
0:37.8	And actually, Corinne and I are actually running the 50K ourselves out there.
0:42.8	So it's going to be a super fun weekend.
0:44.4	Make sure you follow along all our coverage, athlete interviews, our pre-race show, our post-race show.
0:50.9	And follow Free Trail on Instagram for as live as possible
0:56.0	race day coverage from out on
0:58.0	the race course with a specific
0:59.6	focus on the 102K
1:01.9	which again is sending
1:03.6	four lucky people to
1:06.0	June's Western States 100.
1:08.0	Big thank you to Hoka for supporting our
1:09.9	coverage and a big thanks to you for following along.
1:13.2	Hope you enjoy.
1:23.1	Welcome back to the 2025 TerraWara Trailgating. We are joined by the man, the myth, the legend, the ultra-runner of the year in 2024.
1:32.9	Number two in Trail Runner of the Year, Mr. Hayden Hawks back here in New Zealand for how many times have you been here to TerraWara?
1:40.9	Second time here, but we spend a lot of time in New Zealand. So we love it here. It's a second home to us and happy to be back.
1:48.5	Heck yeah. Yeah, I was going to say this seems to be like your winter destination kind of chasing summer. How is it having the whole family over? That seems awesome. Yeah, it's really cool. I mean, I'm not much of a winter guy, to be completely honest with you. I've tried skiing and I just don't like it.
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