Free Trail, fam, happy holidays.

Hope you're all doing well.

Enjoying time to rest and reflect as we wind down another year. Today, we are back

to do some reflection ourselves, our annual end of year podcast to review and celebrate the

2025 year in trail running, as usual for the fourth year in a row. Corinne Malcolm is back as my

co-host for a fun retrospective.

And as usual, we try to tackle things from almost every conceivable angle.

The docket today includes our respective trail runner of the year ballots, acknowledging the

athletes who perform the best.

Then we go through our trail performance of the year ballots, discussing the top single

performances of the season we talk through

some remarkable fkTs from 2025 recognize rookies of the year overall biggest storylines from

2025 we give out the bill duper spirit award a very nice annual tradition we make some predictions

for 2026 and then we close with some of our

personal highlights from 2025 and things that we are each looking forward to in the new year.

Before we get to it, I just wanted to say here at the top, a big thank you to you all, the

amazing trail running community who take the time to tune into the show.

Free Trail, of course, has become the center of my life, my life's work, and I just don't say

it enough, just how deeply I appreciate each and every one of you for listening to the show.

If it's not clear, this is so fun for me. I love the sport.

I love my job. And I so appreciate everyone who listens to the show or who supports us in some way.

We work incredibly hard and you guys make it worth it each and every day. So I just wanted to

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