TROY Recap, Honorable Mentions, & Athlete Free Agency Update

The Freetrail Podcast with Dylan Bowman

Dylan Bowman

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

5 • 773 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Corrine Malcolm joins the show again to break down the news in trail running.

Topics discussed:

Trail Runner of the Year results & analysis
Trail Performance of the Year results & analysis
Athlete specialization and the disciplines represented in the results
American bias and whether it was present in the 2024 results
Feedback received from trail fans
Honorable mentions: 11-20th TROY & 6-10 TPOY
Pro athlete free agency
Courtney Dauwalter's contract extension with Salomon
Big name athletes on the move
David Roche intentionally remaining independent
Stian Angermund's post about the resolution of his suspension and return to racing

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey fam, welcome to the free trail podcast. Of course, I am your host, Dylan Bowman. And if you're hearing this, that means you are not in the member-only feed. It's all good. Don't worry about it. But we would very much appreciate
0:26.9	it if you would consider signing up for Free Trail Pro. As a subscriber, you're going to get ad-free
0:32.1	versions of this show, along with a bunch of member-only content. I'm going to be doing AMAs and having important and
0:39.8	unfiltered conversations with the pretrial team, community members, and special guests
0:45.3	regularly there on the private feed. Your free trail membership will also give you access to
0:50.8	our extremely active Slack community of international trail runners of all levels.
0:56.0	You'll get early access to all of our merch and events, exclusive discounts with our brand partners,
1:01.9	and a lot more, including some very exciting things to be announced very soon.
1:07.8	Membership is only $96 for the year, and you can learn more at free trail.com forward
1:12.5	slash pro or at the link in the show notes.
1:19.6	Today, we're joined by Corinne Malcolm for a newsy podcast, breaking down Trail Runner of the
1:24.6	year and Trail Performance of the Year, recapping the results and
1:28.7	adding our comments and analysis. We talked through some of the stats of the vote, how it shook
1:34.0	out in terms of athlete specialization and the disciplines represented in the results. We confront
1:39.9	the conversation of American bias and discuss whether it was present in the results.
1:46.0	We talked transparently about some of the feedback that we received, and then we
1:50.0	spent a lot of time giving honorable mentions going through 11th through 20th positions for
1:56.0	Trail Runner of the Year and six through 10th positions for trail performance of the year. Of course,
2:01.6	2024 was a paradigm shifting year and there were so many great athletes and great performances
2:07.7	that didn't make the public rollout. So we wanted to give them special shoutouts here
2:12.9	on the pod, also with the intention of being transparent with you, the public, about how these
2:18.6	results were arrived at. And then in the second half of the show, we dissect pro athlete free agency
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