Top-10 Storylines of the 2025 Western States 100
The Freetrail Podcast with Dylan Bowman
Dylan Bowman
5 • 773 Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Freetrail’s coverage of the 2025 Western States 100! Join us live every day of race week at 3:30pm PT as we discuss the top storylines of this year’s race, preview the fields and provide our personal predictions for the win. You can join us here on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday before we turn our work towards the race broadcast and social coverage all weekend. We’ll host a recap show after the race. Thanks for tuning in!
Today’s show covers The Top 10 Storylines of the 2025 Broken Arrow Skyrace, hosted by Dylan Bowman, Corrine Malcolm and Tim Tollefson. The storylines we cover are:
#10 – Important Anniversaries
#9 – Heather Jackson - Unbound to WS
#8 – It’s all in the family
#7 – Septuagenarians & Octogenarians
#6 - Weather – Always a story but we don’t know how yet?
#5 - Course Record Watch
#4 - Pre-Race Attrition
#3 - Cocodona to Western States
#2 - Wide Open Women’s Race
#1 - Kilian Returns
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 makers |
| 1:16.9 | of some of the most popular footwear and apparel products on the market. You'll hear more from |
| 1:22.2 | Hoka during the show, but please visit Hoka.com to check out all of their amazing trail products. |
| 1:29.1 | Best sport ever, best week ever, best race ever. |
| 1:33.7 | Western states is here. |
| 1:35.9 | Thanks for joining us. |
| 1:42.8 | Okay, and we are live. A big warm welcome to the 2025 Western States 100 and free trails |
| 1:49.3 | coverage of this amazing event. |
| 1:52.2 | We are broadcasting live from Palisades, Tahoe in the Hoka Outpost. |
| 1:57.2 | My name is Dylan Bowman, joined, of course, and finally, by Corinne Malcolm. Corinne, |
| 2:02.2 | you're here. You made it. I made it. I flew in this morning. I've been traveling all day, and I'm so |
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