Let's Talk Trail Running

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Play Fantasy Freetrail here . Links Discussed in Show: 2025 Zegama IRunFar recap by Deki Fourcin. Subhub Headlines Article with Zegama top 10 times. IRunFar Article on how to win the Zegama Marathon by Mallory Richard. Golden Trail World Series Youtube Recap from 2025 Race. List of past winners at Zegama. Zegama Weather Forecast . Get full access to Robrunsround’s Substack at robrunsround.substack...

Author’s Note: Feel free to skip forward from 30:00 to about 32:30 into the podcast due to technical difficulties and apologies for some profanity. I thought the window that I was recording the podcast on had been closed but was mistaken. Once it was fixed I decided to keep rolling rather than restart 30 minutes in. My sincerest apologies! Links Discussed: Play Fantasy Freetrail here 2025 IRunFar...

The 6th Skyrunning World Series race of the year is here and it is a stacked field on both sides. Today we’ll discuss the favorites from both races as well as recap some happenings this past week from UTMB Canyons, MIUT 115k, and the London Marathon. Play Fantasy Freetrail here . Links Discussed in Episode: 2024 Race Recap Video on the Traditional Race route. 2022 Mens Course Record Strava File fr...

The final golden tickets for entry into 2026 Western States Endurance Run are up for grabs this weekend. Who would be the most exciting racers to add to the field that aren’t in yet? On the men’s side you’ve got to imagine it would be great to have previous winner Adam Peterman back in along with either Hayden Hawks or Zach Miller while on the women’s side Riley Brady could really add more zest to...

The northern hemisphere trail season is fully here by now with a big weekend of racing that includes Madeira Island Ultra Trail 115k (MIUT) and Canyons by UTMB this weekend. Here is a race preview for MIUT 115k with a strong men’s field and a women’s field that should be a battle between a trio of favorites. Play Fantasy Freetrail here . Links Discussed in Podcast: 2025 MIUT IRunFar Race Recap . F...

A double whammy preview episode with two big sub-ultra races next weekend. One Skyrunning World Series race and one of Freetrail’s very own races with a nice prize purse thrown in. We’ve got Skyrunning World Series Champions and Golden Trail World Series Champions kicking off their season with their first races of the year at Calamorro Skyrace. Links Discussed in Podcast: Play Fantasy Freetrail He...

Links discussed in show: Zaid Malek BBC Article IRunFar Chianti Race Recap from 2025. Kilian Jornet strava file from 2025 Chianti 120k race. Roberto Delorenzi strava file from 2025 Tenerife 47k race. Play Fantasy Freetrail here . Get full access to Robrunsround’s Substack at robrunsround.substack.com/subscribe

Join me as I preview the first European race of the 2026 Skyrunner World Series season, including 3 of the top 4 men’s short trail finishers from worlds last year. I also discuss the results of the 2026 Transgrancanaria classic which saw a sweep from the Albons and some notable drops on both the men’s and women’s fields. Articles Mentioned on Podcast: Skyrunner Website description and Skyrunner Su...

Question: What do last year’s UTMB winner, a 3 time Lavaredo winner, a 2 time CCC winner, and a dual winner of OCC/CCC have in common? Answer: They’ll all be lining up at this year’s Transgrancanaria start line for an early season show down- Tom Evans, Hannes Namberger, Hayden Hawks, and Jon Albon are all lining up at this early season classic to do battle. The women’s field includes two of last y...

A deep dive into the 2025 Freetrail Trail Runner of the Year (TROY) results. The goal of this podcast is to discuss the results of the 2025 TROY voting: what went right, what might have gone better, and how the results compared to previous years in the 4th year of TROY voting. In the podcast I reference podcasts from both Freetrail (Tim Tollefson and Dylan Bowman) and Singletrack (Finn Melanson, B...

Olympic medalists coming to the trails in their prime, is Jim Walmsley toeing the line, and who the heck is walking away with a Golden ticket? Things are about to get wild out west in the Arizona desert this Valentine’s day with a STACKED lineup of heavy hitters ready to throw down on both the men’s and women’s fields. Tune in to find out who to look out for in this years Black Canyon 100k. Links...

Happy 1 year anniversary of Let’s Talk Trail Running! 1 year ago I recorded my first preview to a very small audience & here we are a year later back at it. Thanks to everyone who tuned into my previous episode discussing candidates for the 2025 Trail Runner of the Year (TROY) voting. It was my most listened to episode yet and I had a blast researching and discussing the seasons of all the amazing...

The time of year that all these Fantasy Freetrail race preview shows has been building up to is finally here: voting for TROY (Trail Runner of the Year) top 10 on the Fantasy Freetrail website! Make your picks for this years best Trail Runners of any distance before voting closes December 16th. This episode discusses many of this year’s TROY finalists, their most impressive results, and some propo...

A deep field of American runners including Chris Myers, Jeff Mogavero, Adam Loomis, and Grant Barnette will be going to battle with two-time course winner Dmitry Mityaev and Slovakian stud Peter Frano on the men’s side. On the women’s side, last years second place finisher Antonina Iushina willbe looking to improve her finish one spot but will be up against the likes of Nepalese legend Sunmaya Bud...

Returning champion and CR smasher David Sinclair will be looking to repeat on the mens side while a showdown is set to take place between Hannah Allgood and Jade Belzberg on the women’s side. Tune in to see who I think has the edge and who I’ve got pegged for top 5 on both sides! Get full access to Robrunsround’s Substack at robrunsround.substack.com/subscribe

It’s sad to think the trail running season is largely over, but as we count down to the end of the year there are a few last exciting events on the horizon (Javelina, JFK, UTCT). This year’s Javelina will include 3 of the top 4 mens finishers from last year’s edition of the race and only 2 of the top 7 on the women’s side. The race is fast, flat, and the weather looks good. Let the Golden Ticket h...

The 2025 World Mountain Trail Running Championship is here at long last and the lineups are STACKED. The biggest names in trail running are finally targeting worlds as a meaningful objective and getting their sponsors to incentivize racing it. The lineup for this years long trail race is showing that. Right now both France and USA women’s and men’s long trail teams look to be the heavy hitters, bu...

Articles Mentioned in Podcast: IRunFar 2024 OCC recap https://www.irunfar.com/2024-occ-results-hemming-and-yao-win-utmb-50k-world-series-final Mile and Stone Newsletter Talking about French National Trail Team members: https://mailchi.mp/mileandstone/n53?e=99a87b331d Get full access to Robrunsround’s Substack at robrunsround.substack.com/subscribe

Another Skyrunning World Series Race is here, this time with the epic background that is the iconic Matterhorn. Starting and ending in Zermatt, the race goes up to Rothornhutte at 3,200m (10,500) and tops out at almost 3,400m (11,000 feet) while accumulating 3,066m (10,000) over only 26km (16ish miles) of racing. The race has tons of technical sections, epic views, and makes for some dreamy skyrun...

The 52nd edition of the Sierre Zinal trail race in Switzerland is set to take place this weekend. Prrevious race champions on both the men’s and women’s side will be showing up to throw down at what is OBJECTIVELY the most densely competitive trail race in the world. Sierre Zinal always draws a frothy mix of elite trail runners and blazing fasrt road running speedsters/track stars meeting to throw...

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A men’s race that feels wide open with only one top 10 runner returning from last year, whereas the women’s race has four of the top ten returning including last year’s winner and Course Record Holder, Judith Wyder. Go make your picks at Fantasy Freetrail Get full access to Robrunsround’s Substack at robrunsround.substack.com/subscribe