The Trail Snails

The Road to Dead Cow Gully - part 1! The fellas get some awesome nuggets of wisdom ahead of the 2025 Masters from a range of backyard legends, including World Record holders and crew wizards! Maybe you’ll find some piece of advice to implement at DCG or at your next Backyard event! Get your note pad out for this one peeps.. Thanks to all the contributors for helping us out with their time and know...

Toby Steele is a Brisbane-based ultra runner who just ran the 2025 Cocodona 250 in Arizona USA! Toby talks us through his journey toward making it into the race, his preparations for it and of course how the 111 hours panned out for him in a race that throws everything at its participants! Toby’s instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tobysteele__?igsh=Yzd0NnYxYnR0ZHVw Cocodona instagram: https://ww...

Episode 3 of our “Road to Dead Cow Gully” We were lucky enough to chat with Dead Cow Gully race director - Tim Walsh! Set on the Walsh Family property in Nanango QLD, Dead Cow Gully is arguably one of the premier Backyard Ultra events in the world, and the previous Masters having set a world record by Phil Gore at 102 yards. Set for a huge event at this years Masters, Tim chats about previous even...

Episode 2 of our Road to Dead Cow Gully series! We chat with personal trainer and Backyard Ultra runner Darren Chandler from Perth, Western Australia. Darren tells us how he got into fitness, boxing and running, we chat about his recent results at Herdys Backyard Ultra and looking ahead to Dead Cow gully 2025 - and we deep dive into the mental resilience it takes to succeed at a Backyard! + lots m...

Happy Birthday to the Escargot show! We are officially 1 year old! To celebrate, we wrapped up the recent Sydney’s Backyard Ultra and the Gil’s Galavant Backyard Ultra, including a world first involving a neck pillow. We are in full backyard mode, our road to Dead Cow Gully Masters 2025 series has begun!

The weekend that wasn’t! With the Yandina 5-0 postponed due to heavy rainfalls the Snails still made it an event to remember! We chat about our wet and wild weekend and looking ahead to Dead Cow Gully Backyard Masters.. If you want to sign up and run Yandina 5-0 on its new date - June 14 2025 check out Run QLD! https://www.runqld.com.au/yandina-50 12km, 21km, 36km and 50km distances available!! Gr...

We are 1 week out from the Yandina 5-0 Ultramarathon and the boys discuss the upcoming event, how their training has been and chat about the course in detail! Good luck everyone!

Toowoombas very own Sara “Little Willy” Wilson joins us on episode 21, chatting how she got started with running and her journey into Backyard ultras! We talk training, mental toughness, goal setting and much more! Check her out on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sara__runs__?igsh=MTVkZXU3MDJrOWUwcw== Link to her coach Matt: https://www.instagram.com/run_coaching?igsh=MThvcWk1OGptZ2FjYQ==

Ciao mi amores! This episode the lads have a catch up with plenty of shit talk, gripes with technical trails, Montoya Por Favor and big bag of snail mail!

We are joined by Brisbane based podiatrist and personal trainer Matt McKean! Matty proved to be a wealth of knowledge - this was our most informative episode yet! We bust some common podiatry misconceptions, chat about the benefits of strength work, get Matt’s thoughts on running shoe options and much more! Check out Matt below: @keen.physique https://www.instagram.com/keen.physique?igsh=cnYwZThlO...

Our very first interview!! We chat with NZ trail runner Fleur Summers! We talk all things training, Tarawera, Mount Dick and her spaniel Loki, who we are sure runs more than you. Check out Fleur (and Loki!): Instagram @fleursummersnz @lfsruncoaching @spanielofmischief Online https://lfsruncoaching.com Chasing Pounamu doco: https://youtu.be/OatnVxRHJIQ?si=D1Y-ILTILLVRm2Tn

Inside this episode is your secret weapon for getting out of your next pain cave! Emergency use only!

Happy New year! Harps and Duncan catch up on New Year’s resolutions and the Snails plans for 2025!

A festive season extravaganza!!! The Snails wrap up the year with Harps, Tats, Duncs and Scotty chatting through the “12 days of Christmas” - 12 quick fire topics reflecting on 2024 and looking ahead to 2025!

The before, during and after of Harps and Duncan tackling the Ultra Trail Kosciuszko 100km!

The Trail Snails are back and discussing upcoming 100km run at Ultra Trail Kosciuszko! Food, gear and training for the race, plus a few hypotheticals to work through - and we go through our Snail Mailbox to finish!

The boys chat behind the scenes of last weekends Blackall 100 event up in sunny Queensland! Visit Run Queensland for results, event details, and to get your Yandina 5-0 tickets! https://www.runqld.com.au/events-1

Duncan, Tats and Scotty talk through the weekend that was at the inaugural Garden City Backyard Ultra, held in Toowoomba.

We’ve hit double digits! Ep 10 joins Harps and Duncs as they chat more tips and tricks including blowing ice, how good wooden fence posts are and lacing your shoes diagonally.

Harps and Duncs discuss a range of topics and share some knowledge from their Ultra experiences!! Hopefully you can pick up a trick or handy tip!! If you have anything you want to hear about be sure to send us a suggestion via our instagram https://www.instagram.com/trail.snails For hat/visor orders please DM us on instagram! Link to the shoe organiser: https://shorturl.at/V98Q1

Duncan and Harps chat about the Olympics that was, wrap up Harps’ experience at Reds Backyard Ultra in Kembla Grange NSW, as well as discuss Clint Eastwood backyard results and the AUS satellite champs backyard team!

Weyand, Duncs and Harps wrap up the huge weekend of events for the Snails!

Duncan and Harps chat recent events, clear up a some mistakes from last podcast, wrap up the Western States Endurance Run, and chat all things Olympic games!

Duncan and Harps provide more updates about injuries and gel news, how to pronounce running brand names. They also touch on runner safety and the recent scary incidents, and talk about the upcoming Western States 100 Endurance run!

Episode 4 of the Escargot Show! Harps, Duncan and Nick caught up and had a chat about upcoming events and having a crack at the roads. They also spoke about some new Snail merch, the recent Ultra Trail Australia weekend, and the latest on the Spring Energy Gel controversy! Shell yeah!