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by Aaron Shimmons
Weekly global ultra-trail show covering races, athlete stories, gear reviews, and the culture that drives runners to push beyond the marathon. Hosted by Aaron Shimmons and HOKA Pro trail runner Ricki Wynne.
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- 3 days ago1h 7m
Bhutan Trail Run | Racing at 4,000m | Jason Schlarb Interview | Trail Running in Asia
This week on Trail Talk, Aaron and James Poole get into the KOLON Trail Run Bhutan and racing up to 4,000 metres in the rain, James's new 100k race in China, why runners across Asia want UTMB, KOLON SPORT's first trail shoe and pack, the Tiger's Nest hike and what it costs to get into Bhutan. Then Jason Schlarb talks racing the Bhutanese on their own trails, Hardrock, Norda and what he wants to race next year. RunMotion - The official training partner for Trail Talk. Click the link for 30 day free trial.page.run-motion.com/trail-talk / - /- / - / - / - / - / - / - /- / - / - / - / - / - / DISCOUNTS:CurraNZ 15% offXMiles 10% offTantrums 15% off (code TrailTalk15) 👇 All discount links can be found herehttps://linktr.ee/irunovermountains👇 Join the Communityhttps://linktr.ee/irunovermountains
- 1 weeks ago1h 28m
Denis Rankin Round Winter Attempt | Ethels 275 | Bhutan Trail Run | Trail Culture
This week on Trail Talk, Aaron and Ricki get into the Denis Rankin Round winter attempt on Friday 13 November, Rebecca Hormann's Ethels 275 first round attempt in the Peak District, Aaron's KOLON Trail Run Bhutan, the GPT100 50k, two free Granite Peaks Ultra entries and why Aaron has unfollowed the meme accounts. Then Nina Sun, brand director at Kailas FUGA, talks trail culture, the DU Monster and the Tor des Géants partnership. RunMotion - The official training partner for Trail Talk. Click the link for 30 day free trial.page.run-motion.com/trail-talk / - /- / - / - / - / - / - / - /- / - / - / - / - / - / DISCOUNTS:CurraNZ 15% offXMiles 10% offTantrums 15% off (code TrailTalk15) 👇 All discount links can be found herehttps://linktr.ee/irunovermountains👇 Join the Communityhttps://linktr.ee/irunovermountains
- 2 weeks ago1h 8m
Sage Canaday | Ultra Running, Money, Getting Older & Cocodona
This week on Trail Talk, Sage Canaday joins the show, recorded in Chamonix during UTMB week. He gets into how the sport has changed since his first UTMB in 2015, the year he wore bib number one, fell before the Pyramides and ended up taking a helicopter off the mountain from Bertone. Four UTMB starts and one finish. Leaving the Brooks track programme in 2012 with no sponsor and moving to Boulder with everything in his car. How pro trail runners actually make a living, why the salary and the bonuses matter more than the prize money, and what that does to who turns up and who drops. Eighteen years of YouTube and what he learned making videos nobody watched. Getting older, strength work and mobility, and why he is looking at Cocodona and a backyard next. RunMotion - The official training partner for Trail Talk. Click the link for 30 day free trial.https://page.run-motion.com/trail-talk / - /- / - / - / - / - / - / - /- / - / - / - / - / - / DISCOUNTS:CurraNZ 15%XMiles 10%Tantrums 15%Ascend App 30% 👇 All discount links can be found herehttps://linktr.ee/irunovermountains👇 Join the Communityhttps://linktr.ee/irunovermountains
- 3 weeks ago1h 26m
Mika Thewes on Tor des Géants DNF & Mammoth 200 WIN | Denis Rankin Round | Moab 240 Weather
This week on Trail Talk, Aaron and Ricki get into life after Vietnam and China, the Denis Rankin Round on 13 November, Aaron's Sydney Trail Series 24k with a sore throat, the Bhutan 40k run entirely above 3,000 metres, the UTMB major qualifying system and how deep the fields at Kodiak and UTA really are, two free entries to the Granite Peaks Ultra in the Mourne Mountains, and the weather at Moab 240. Then Mika Thewes joins to talk about two and a half months training in the Aosta Valley, the salt and cramping problems that ended her Tor des Géants, going from Tor to the Mammoth 200 on two weeks' notice, finishing as first woman and second overall in around 54 hours, and why she is going back to Tor next year. RunMotion - The official training partner for Trail Talk. Click the link for 30 day free trial.page.run-motion.com/trail-talk / - /- / - / - / - / - / - / - /- / - / - / - / - / - / DISCOUNTS:CurraNZ 15% offXMiles 10% offTantrums 15% off (code TrailTalk15) 👇 All discount links can be found herehttps://linktr.ee/irunovermountains👇 Join the Communityhttps://linktr.ee/irunovermountains
- Oct 6, 202659 min
Chasing the Triple Crown of 200s | Tahoe, Bigfoot & Moab 240 | Aaron Kubala
This week on Trail Talk, Aaron Kubala joins the show, recorded in Chamonix during UTMB week. He set the course record at Tahoe 200 in June, won Bigfoot 200, and has Moab 240 still to come this year. He gets into where the time actually goes in a 200, why he slept nine minutes at Tahoe and planned for none at Bigfoot, the one to five in the morning crux and getting to sunrise, back to back to back long runs, the shift to liquid calories, why power hiking is the most undertrained thing in the sport, and running 150 miles step for step with a Serbian runner he had never met at the Gobi. Plus Cocodona in 2027 and the Tor after that. RunMotion - The official training partner for Trail Talk. Click the link for 30 day free trial.https://page.run-motion.com/trail-talk / - /- / - / - / - / - / - / - /- / - / - / - / - / - / DISCOUNTS:CurraNZ 15%XMiles 10%Tantrums 15%Ascend App 30% 👇 All discount links can be found herehttps://linktr.ee/irunovermountains👇 Join the Communityhttps://linktr.ee/irunovermountains
- Sep 29, 20261h 8m
Max King | Trail Culture, Salomon TV & Racing Gongga 100
This week on Trail Talk, Max King joins Aaron and Ricki, recorded in Moxi, Sichuan the day before the Gongga 100. It is not a race preview. He gets into the Salomon TV era and why the stories mattered more than the results, where the adventure has gone in a product led sport, and how he moved from steeplechase to Mount Marathon, obstacle racing and the 100k road worlds. Why he never had a good hundred miler, the move to Kailas FUGA nine months ago, the youth camps, and the bucket list races he is chasing now, including a glacier descent in a helmet. Then trail culture: public lands, respect, fell running, big expos against grassroots races, and what we don't yet know about trail running's history in China. RunMotion - The official training partner for Trail Talk. Click the link for 30 day free trial.https://page.run-motion.com/trail-talk / - /- / - / - / - / - / - / - /- / - / - / - / - / - / DISCOUNTS:CurraNZ 15%XMiles 10%Tantrums 15%Ascend App 30% 👇 All discount links can be found herehttps://linktr.ee/irunovermountains👇 Join the Communityhttps://linktr.ee/irunovermountains
- Sep 22, 20261h 17m
Vietnam Mountain Marathon Recap | Tor des Géants Coverage
This week on Trail Talk, Aaron and Ricki get into it from Hanoi, the day after the Vietnam Mountain Marathon. Ricki's 50k in a World Trail Majors field, eighth overall with an age group win, over 3,000m of gain on clay mud in 95% humidity, and learning from how Wicklow went wrong. Kailas FUGA athletes taking the 100k, the crowds in Sapa, cows that would not move, and why the whole weekend felt so genuine. Then back to the Tor: eight days fastpacking the route with over 18,000m of vert, the pre and post race interviews, and Katharina Hartmuth's run. RunMotion - The official training partner for Trail Talk. Click the link for 30 day free trial.https://page.run-motion.com/trail-talk / - /- / - / - / - / - / - / - /- / - / - / - / - / - / DISCOUNTS:CurraNZ 15%XMiles 10%Tantrums 15%Ascend App 30% 👇 All discount links can be found herehttps://linktr.ee/irunovermountains👇 Join the Communityhttps://linktr.ee/irunovermountains
- Sep 8, 20261h 13m
Every UTMB Race In One Continuous Run | 61,000m Vert In 12 Days | Jake Catterall
This week on Trail Talk, Aaron and Jake Catterall get into the Mont Blanc Super Loop, all eight UTMB week courses run back to back in one continuous effort, and how the whole thing only exists because another project got called off three days in. Recorded in Chamonix four days after he finished. They get into the Amsterdam advertising job he burned himself out in, the Ironman that taught him the finish line was the worst part of it, cutting eighty percent of his mates out of his life to get there, cycling 700km to Berlin on a borrowed bike with no plan, running Norway to Spain to impress his girlfriend, the Via Alpina that his mum suggested by accident, soloing the Matterhorn to check whether the community was right about conditions, calling off the Alpine Connections after three days of rockfall and rotten glaciers, the order he ran the eight courses in and which ones actually hurt, sausages on one side of the vest and gummies on the other, crying his way down a descent on the TDS and deciding that was a good thing, whether he considers himself a trail runner at all, and what he makes of brand camps and clique culture in the valley. RunMotion - The official training partner for Trail Talk. Click the link for 30 day free trial.https://page.run-motion.com/trail-talk / - /- / - / - / - / - / - / - /- / - / - / - / - / - / DISCOUNTS:CurraNZ 15%XMiles 10%Tantrums 15%Ascend App 30% 👇 All discount links can be found herehttps://linktr.ee/irunovermountains👇 Join the Communityhttps://linktr.ee/irunovermountains
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