Dan Green | Western States 2025 Pre-Race Interview

This interview is part of Freetrail's coverage of the 2025 Western States 100, the most important trail running event in North America. Our shows and athlete interviews are hosted each day by Dylan Bowman who sits down to talk with some of the favorites who are racing this year.

In this interview, Dylan talks to professional runner Dan Green (newly signed with Salomon). Dan lives and trains in West Virginia and recently won the Cocodona 250. We sit down with Dan before his debut at the Western States 100 on Saturday. Dan brings fun and levity to the sport, we hope you enjoy this interview.

Make sure to tune into our final live pre-race show leading into the 2025 Western States. We'll be live at 3:30pm tonight both on YouTube and broadcast on the Coffeebar patio. Tonight's show will conclude our pre-race show coverage, before we set our sites on the official broadcast where Dylan will be commentating, and we'll be providing photo and video coverage of the race for the Freetrail social channels. Make sure to follow along here and @runfreetrail on Instagram.

Make sure to play Freetrail's own fantasy trail running at https://fantasy.freetrail.com/events and pick 10-deep for Western States. Fantasy winners this week will receive a head to toe trail kit from HOKA as well as other sweet prizes from Freetrail and brand partners like Ketone IQ and Neversecond.

Our Western States coverage is brought to you by our good friends at HOKA. We're grateful for their generous support and belief in Freetrail.

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