Ultrarunning: You Don’t Have to Be Good to Feel Strong
Ultrarunning gives ordinary people a rare place to feel strong, capable and tested. You don’t have to be elite, or even particularly good at it, to experience that. I know because I’ve DNF’d plenty of...
29 Syys 23min
Anton Krupicka | Trail Running, Identity, and Ignoring Trends
Anton Krupicka has spent two decades becoming something harder to define than a trail runner. This conversation is about how that happened, why he stopped caring about fitting the sport’s mold, and wh...
22 Syys 24min
The Trail Races We Can’t Afford to Lose
Trail running is growing fast, but what happens to the races that don’t scale cleanly? After spending one night volunteering at the Wasatch 100 and the next day at a brand-new UTMB race, I came away w...
15 Syys 28min
"I Need Running to Stay Alive" | Inside the Compulsive Mind of Biel
Ultrarunning rewards people who can keep going. Biel makes you wonder what happens when stopping no longer feels like an option, and where ambition ends and compulsion begins.Biel is a Brazilian ultra...
8 Syys 29min
UTMB Doesn’t Have a Fan Problem
UTMB is the center of trail running for one week every year, and somehow the people most frustrated by it keep showing up. After a week in Chamonix, I came home thinking the problem with hating UTMB i...
1 Syys 35min
Why the World’s Biggest Trail Race Happened in France
UTMB is the biggest trail race in the world, but why did it happen in France? The easy answer is Mont Blanc. The better answer has more to do with culture, timing, and the kind of endurance tradition ...
22 Elo 39min
With Tara Dower | Built Different
Ultra running rewards obsession, but Tara Dower seems wired for something beyond results. She wants to solve hard problems, chase the best competition, run faster, and keep finding out what she’s capa...
20 Elo 40min
Karl Meltzer | Speedgoat, UTMB, and Trail Running’s Boom
Trail running has exploded into a global business, and Karl Meltzer somehow ended up at the center of it. HOKA turned his Speedgoat nickname into one of trail running’s defining shoes, Red Bull paid h...
17 Elo 1h 2min
