The Freetrail Podcast with Dylan Bowman

Zach Miller is a legendary trail runner, splitting time between Oregon and Colorado. He is one of the most beloved and most decorated athletes of the last decade, not only because of his results but in how he approaches the sport. This is a companion podcast for a new film that Freetrail released this week, documenting Zach's race at the 2025 Hardrock 100. The film is entitled A Lap For Bill - a...

This is an emergency episode recorded in San Antonio, TX at The Running Event. We're here to breakdown the recently announced new multi-year partnership between the Broken Arrow Skyrace and All Conditions Gear (ACG) and the exciting details contained in the rollout. Our guests today provide perspectives from three distinct angles: Brendan Madigan: Broken Arrow Race Director Todd Simpson: ACG...

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...

Welcome to Rest Day, Freetrail's occasional news pod covering the latest happenings in trail running. This week, we're joined by Adam Merry to talk through the following topics: Pacific Trails by UTMB Cancellation Gorge Waterfalls new multi-year partnership with All Conditions Gear David Kilgore's departure from the Team Manager role at On JFK & Ultra Trail Cape Town previews Fabrice Perrin's...

Welcome to Rest Day, Freetrail's occasional news pod covering the latest happenings in trail running. This week we're joined by Tim Tollefson to talk through the following topics: UTMB's Purchase of Zugspitz Ultra Trail The global event landscape and where independent events fit Caleb Olson wins GPT100 Kilian Jornet registers for Western States 2026 Molly Seidel and Des Linden moving from roads...

Eric Lagerstrom is a longtime pro athlete across sports. He's also an entrepreneur and creator, leading That Triathlon Life, a popular YouTube channel, podcast, and brand driving culture in multisport. After a long and successful pro triathlon career, Eric is now experimenting with elite level trail running, including a 2nd place finish in the 2025 Black Canyon 50k - a very impressive result in a...

This is a recording of a panel from 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. Today's panel is entitled What Trail Running Can Learn From Other Sports. As trail running continues to grow rapidly around the globe, we wanted to draw parallels to similar periods from...

This is a recording of the opening panel from 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. Today's panel is entitled The State of Trail Running in 2025, which we approached from two angles - trail events and the trail running consumer. Our panelists today: David...

Welcome to Rest Day, Freetrail's occasional news pod covering the latest happenings in trail running. This week we're joined by Corrine Malcolm to talk through the following topics: Kodiak by UTMB - Results and how UTMB Majors are impacting the event landscape GTWS Final results and the "Make Trail Running an Olympic Sport" activation Is Courtney Dauwalter a road runner now? Diagonale des Fous...

Nina Engelhard is an ascendant star in short distance trail running. Hailing from Germany, Nina recently took home two gold medals at the World Mountain & Trail Running Championships in Canfranc, Spain, winning both the Uphill and Classic races. Chapters 00:00 Introducing Nina Engelhardt 02:47 Navigating Newfound Media Attention 05:24 The Journey into Trail and Mountain Running 07:59 Nina's...