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Caleb Bowen

Caleb Bowen

Head Cross Country Coach at Marshall University, ultrarunner and course record holder

Sep 1, 2026

24:08
Now, Caleb, what made you choose coming up to Burning River for the 50-mile race?
24:14
So, you know, just trying to plan out the year.
24:17
I was really struggling with finding races, you know, that I wanted to do that also worked with my schedule.
24:23
Track season where being a collegiate coach is really tough because we're currently traveling every week in the indoor and outdoor seasons.
24:31
So from like December all the way through May, like late May.
24:35
is just every week.
24:36
So, you know, I signed up for Highland Sky 40 mile, just because that's, that's one of my favorites.

30 MINS LATER

55:00
But no, no girls are allowed.
13:24
But with that said, after you were done with your own college running, how did you transition into your post collegiate running? Did you start out on roads and then transition into trail or did you just always love the trail from the get go?
13:38
So I definitely start on the road.
13:39
I was looking forward to the marathon so much throughout college.
13:43
Like I knew that's where like my, my best running would be was in the marathon.
13:48
Cause like I knew I was good at the AK pretty decent, the 10 K.
13:51
So it just was a natural progression and everybody, you know, watches the Boston marathon videos.
13:57
And I was my biggest role model in high school was Ryan Hall, you know, back in his heyday.

6 MINS LATER

20:08
Do you attribute any of that success to something that you started doing differently? Or do you think this is just the culmination of your consistently building through your training?

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