Top 10 Storylines of the 2025 Broken Arrow Skyrace

The Freetrail Podcast with Dylan Bowman

Dylan Bowman

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

5 • 773 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Thanks for tuning into Freetrail’s coverage of the 2025 Broken Arrow Skyrace! We’ll be live every day starting today Thursday June 19th through Sunday June 22nd starting at 3:30pm PT.

Today’s show covers The Top 10 Storylines of the 2025 Broken Arrow Skyrace, hosted by Dylan Bowman and EmKay Sullivan. The storylines we cover are below, tune into the show for our full breakdown of each storyline:

#10 Growth of Broken Arrow both in size and significance

#9 Depth this year across races

#8 Grayson Murphy goes long - double world champ running her first ultra

#7 Golden Trail World Series at BA for the first time

#6 Double Team USA qualifier

#5 Racers already on Worlds team

Taylor stack - VK, 23k (Classic)
Anna Gibson - VK, 23k (Classic)
Mason Coppi - 23k (Classic)
Cam Smith - VK, 23k (Classic)
Allie Mac - VK, 23k (Classic)
David Norris - 46k (Classic)
Tracen Knopp - 46k (Long)
Klaire Rhodes - 46k (Long)
Jade Belzberg - Canada VK, 26k (Vertical, Short)

#4 Prize Money - $60k in total

#3 Fantastic Four -

Elhoussine, Patrick, Philemon, Remi all racing

#2 Returning Champions

#1 Kilian vs Patrick vs Philemon in the Vertical + Joyce, Anna, Allie for women (whole 2024 podium)

What do you think? What storylines did we miss? Drop your thoughts in the comments!

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to free trails coverage of the 2025 Western States 100, the grand daddy of Trail 100 mile racing celebrating its 52nd year in beautiful
0:22.9	Olympic Valley, California. I'm Dylan Bowman and the whole free trail team is here on the ground
0:27.7	doing daily live shows in partnership with our good friends at Hoka and we couldn't be more
0:33.6	excited. It doesn't need to be stated, but Western states is truly one of the great
0:38.3	sporting events in the world. It's been a major part of my life for the last 15 years,
0:43.2	and it's an honor to be able to bring our coverage to the global trail running community.
0:48.3	What you're about to hear in the podcast feed is the audio from the YouTube live stream.
0:52.6	Of course, we'd love for you to join us live over there
0:55.2	on YouTube if you prefer the video experience or just want to contribute to the chat. Visit the show
1:00.3	notes where you can find a link to the channel. We're going live daily at 3.30 p.m. Pacific
1:05.9	time throughout Race Week. As I said, our coverage all week is made possible with support from
1:11.5	Hoka, the brand born from Trail running, the presenting sponsor of Western States and the
1:16.6	makers of some of the most popular footwear and apparel products on the market. You'll hear
1:21.8	more from Hoka during the show, but please visit Hoka.com to check out all of their amazing trail
1:27.4	products. Best sport ever products best sport ever best week
1:31.3	ever best race ever western states is here okay we are live.
1:44.8	Thank you to our viewing audience who are confirming that in the chat, probably Travis Longcar, but welcome to the 2025 Broken Arrow Sky Race, free trails trailgating here.
1:55.2	This begins eight straight days of live shows starting at 3.30 p.m. Pacific time from now, all the way until
2:04.0	next Thursday before Western States. We are going to be documenting and bringing all the fun
2:09.7	stories and action from two of North America's most important racing events. Of course,
2:14.1	the Broken Arrow Sky Race starts tomorrow. We're going to get into that here momentarily. And then all through Western States Race Week leading up to North America's most important and oldest 100-mile-er. So put us on your calendar. Block out your calendar at 3.30 p.m. starting now for the next eight days. You're not going to want to miss it. It's going to be absolutely
2:35.2	legendary trail running. Joining me here today, my co-host, the great M.K. Sullivan in studio,
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