Cocodona 250 Preview Show with Dan Green | Trailgating
4/30/20261 hr 12 min
Today, we're hosting a LIVE Trailgating show to preview the 2026 Cocodona 250. We're lucky to have 2025 men's champion Dan Green assuming co-hosting duties to share all the hard earned insights from his amazing course record victory at this iconic race.
Trailgating Docket:
- Cocodona course: unique challenges, crux moments, and strategic approach
- Expected conditions: how will weather impact the race?
- Race strategy: how to manage long days, sleep deprivation, aid station transitions, and more?
- Women's contenders
- Men's contenders
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Transcript preview
First 90 secondsDylan Bowman· Host0:00
[upbeat music] All right, folks. Welcome to Free Trails Trail Gating coverage of the 2026 Cocodona 250. My name is Dylan Bowman, joined by the 2025 champion in the building from West Virginia, Danny G, Dan Green. Welcome to Trail Gating, buddy. Thanks for doing this.
Dan Green· Host0:31
[laughs] Dude. Nah, thanks for having me on. I'm stoked to be here.
Dylan Bowman· Host0:35
Yeah.
Dan Green· Host0:35
Great, great race to talk about.
Dylan Bowman· Host0:37
Yeah, and over your right shoulder is a little animation of the Cocodona course to commemorate your experience- That's it ... out there on the trails. And [laughs] of course, you have talked about your experience there ad nauseum, including on the Free Trail Podcast, but here we are to do something a little bit different, to preview the 2026 race. Of course, you're not gonna be racing. I wanna do sort of a little personal update on Dan Green here. Maybe we should just do that first before we, we dive into the docket here today. Tell your fans, how are you feeling? What's the state of your health, and how are you feeling, uh, mentally not stepping to the start line of this race that, in a lot of ways, like, put you on the map?
Dan Green· Host1:17
Uh, yeah, I guess, uh, if you don't know, I am injured. Um, not terribly. Nothing's broken really that bad, but I have, like, you