The Lives of Modern Professional Trail Runners | TrailCon Live Panel - Sally McRae, Jim Walmsley, Hayden Hawks, Hillary Allen, & Tabor Hemming
The Freetrail Podcast with Dylan Bowman
Dylan Bowman
4.8 • 866 Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Today's panel is entitled The Lives of Modern Professional Trail Runners, recorded live at the 2025 edition of TrailCon -- a two-day trail running festival, conference, and trade show hosted in Palisades Tahoe, CA in the days between Broken Arrow and Western States.
Our panelists today:
- Sally McRae (Moderator)
- Jim Walmsley (HOKA)
- Hayden Hawks (HOKA)
- Hillary Allen (Brooks)
- Tabor Hemming (Adidas TERREX)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friends. Happy Thanksgiving. And welcome to another special bonus episode of the |
| 0:18.9 | free trail podcast. Today we continue sharing some of our |
| 0:21.8 | panel discussions from the 2025 edition of TrailCon, a multi-day trail running festival, |
| 0:29.0 | conference and trade show that Free Trail helps to organize hosted in Palisades, Tahoe, |
| 0:34.4 | in the days between Broken Arrow and Western States. Today, we're sharing a panel entitled, The Lives of Modern Professional Trail Runners. |
| 0:43.1 | The first voice you'll hear is that of today's moderator, Sally McCray, Who Better |
| 0:48.4 | Than the Great Sally McCray, to lead this important discussion. |
| 0:52.4 | Our panelists today, also the who's who of the last dozen years, at least, of the sport |
| 0:58.2 | at the highest level, Mr. Jim Walmsley, Hayden Hawks, Hillary Allen, and Tabor Hemming. |
| 1:04.0 | They talk about their deepest motivators, their paths to success, their hardest moments, |
| 1:09.3 | and a lot more. |
| 1:10.4 | To learn more about TrailCon, visit trailconference.com. |
| 1:13.6 | The 26 event is scheduled for the 22nd through the 24th of June, 26, expanding to three |
| 1:21.6 | days this year. |
| 1:22.5 | We're very excited about that. |
| 1:24.1 | We'll have a lot more exciting announcements about next year's event in the coming weeks and months. So stay tuned for that. We'll have a lot more exciting announcements about next year's event in the coming |
| 1:28.4 | weeks and months. So stay tuned for that. Hope you're all enjoying some quiet time with friends and |
| 1:34.9 | family this week. As always, thank you for carving out time to listen to our little podcast. |
| 1:41.7 | Thankful for you all. |
| 1:52.9 | Never Second is, of course, the choice of champions and trail running in the age of carbohydrates and during this general nutritional revolution. |
| 1:56.2 | Never Second has been leading the charge, fueling athletes to otherworldly performances around the world. |
| 2:02.0 | And as they say, the proof is on the podium after UTMB, I had an epiphany. |
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