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The Freetrail Podcast with Dylan Bowman

Oct 24, 2025

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...


Oct 22, 2025

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...


Oct 17, 2025

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...


Oct 13, 2025

In this episode, we announce the inaugural running of The Big Alta 100k!

 

 

Beginning in Sausalito, CA directly beneath the Golden Gate Bridge, runners will head north on a point to point course, along the coast, tagging Mt. Tam and Big Rock Ridge, before finishing in Marinwood, CA.

 

The course is 61 miles with...


Oct 9, 2025

Jim Walmsley is one of the greatest trail runners of all time. Two weeks ago, he won the Long Trail World Championship, a brutally technical 80k race in Canfranc, Spain. This was Jim's second World Title following up a Short Trail victory in 2019. In this conversation, we reflect on the performance and discuss Jim's...