Corrine Malcolm | 2024 Year In Review

Corrine Malcolm is a pro trail runner, media personality, and co-host of the Trail Society Podcast. She is our most frequent recurring guest and also Freetrail's Editor-in-Chief. As is our tradition, Corrine is back for our End of Year Podcast where we celebrate the 2024 trail running season.
These are the categories that we review:
Trail Runner Of The Year: Top-5 M/W
Performance Of The Year: Top-3 M/F
FKTs Of The Year
Rookies Of The Year
Overall Story of 2024
Bill Dooper Spirit Award - Someone who made an impact outside of being a good athlete
Predictions for 2025
Personal highlights from 2024 and what we're excited about for 2025
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[@ShelleyWalushka]

Jasmine Paris.... the greatest performance of the past decade. Thank you for recognizing this incredible achievement and reminding us all of just how monumental that moment was and how truly worldwide mainstream media the story became. She has undoubtedly inspired so many girls and women to believe in what is possible.

[@jeanyves4220]

I'm glad you both had Elhousine as your top pick for male ROT. You can see it that at every finish, he really gave it out all. Of course I'm biased since I got to know him a little at the Kobe race, he is so down to earth, but really, getting a perfect score in the GTWS means he won 4 races, and in the other races he didn't win, he always podiumed anyways. And yea, Katie Shide for female ROT is also pretty much a given, considering her phenomenal year. What a grinder, and as you mentioned, I really look forward to her and Courtney one day duking it out, it will/would be epic.

[@ffsz77]

Hey there. With respect to audience base, I’m watching from Hong Kong. Great discussion!

[@RunningMan1414]

Always great listening to a recap by the dynamic duo. I'll mention two rookies, although the 1st one showed up in couple races in 2023 (Where do we draw the line?): Oria Liaci finishing the Golden Trail World Series with four top 10s in a row. Nina Engelhard (Strange to mention Lukas but not her), who won 2 golds at the European Champs and also a WMRA Race

[@ericandbeethoven]

I got to hang with both of you in Chamonix. Best.Trail.Season ever. Let's repeat in 2025.

[@newlevelscoaching]

Really surprised that Vincent Bouillard was barely mentioned. Could've easily been in: Performance of the Year, Story of the Year and even TROY. When Jim won UTMB last year it was celebrated much more, which I get with him being US based and first American male to win, but Vincent's story was arguably way better and in my opinion has been massively overlooked. I guess that's the beauty of it all, it's all opinions, but can't help but feel one of the feel good stories of the year was missed here

[@robertlynn9667]

what not break it down between ultra distance & sub ultra?

[@netct25]

comeback athlete of the year could be cool. Zach Miller, Sophia Laukli, and Anthony Costales early candidates for 2025!

[@rexgorman9561]

Did y'all break up with the feed? I feel it they were the title sponsor for a minute and then they disappeared.

[@uloutdoors]

They don´t get feeeed anymore maybe. who cares.

[@kirkusmarikonus]

@Freetrail not necessarily direct incentive, but you do receive a Hardrock qualifier / lottery entry if you finish UTMB. I believe Jeff Colt ground out a finish in 2023 simply because of the Hardrock qualifier incentive.

[@mattpelofske4632]

Didn't courtney also win the swiss alps 70k?

[@petraalma29]

SwissPeaks70

[@uloutdoors]

The only reason why Claire Bannwarth is not on that "Trailrunner of the year" list has to be that nobody can comprehend what she is doing and I know it is truly mind-boggling. For me she won both cathegories. Mens and womens bc she is amazing.

[@RunningMan1414]

There's another reason, she's not from the USA so she gets overlooked.

[@uloutdoors]

@@RunningMan1414 I don´t think that that is a reason, there are many athletes on the list who are not from the US on there.

[@RunningMan1414]

@@uloutdoors Let's agree to disagree, can't know for certain, but something tells me that if Claire was a quirky "Beast coast" or PNW multiday/FKT runner, she would be name dropped way more frequently in these conversations.

[@selfcoachedrunner]

For the record, Claire was voted in as #7 as TROY for 2023, she's not overlooked, she just didn't make it in this year compared to the amazing efforts that so many other amazing women put down. I don't see any bias here, she's got a full interview about her last year right on the channel: kzbin.info/www/bejne/f2bUY3uver6Mgrssi=WdnmHKr9-LH7fTm6