"I Need This 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 Sep 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 Sep 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 Aug 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 Aug 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 Aug 1h 2min
Harvey Lewis | The Mind Behind the Ultras
Ultrarunning eventually becomes a mental problem. The body hurts, the race stops going to plan, and the question becomes what the best ultrarunners understand about continuing when quitting makes sens...
13 Aug 39min
Harvey Lewis | The Man Behind the Ultras
Harvey Lewis is one of ultrarunning’s most accomplished endurance athletes, but the more interesting question might be how a high school civics teacher from Ohio became capable of doing any of this. B...
10 Aug 34min
Ciele Athletics and the Rise of Running Culture
Ciele helped change what running looked like, but the more interesting story is what sat underneath the aesthetic. This episode is for runners curious about how a hat brand became part of running cult...
4 Aug 15min
