Running long - A trail and ultra running talk

Ruth Croft is a kiwi trail runner sponsored by Adidas Terrex. A great friend of mine and definitely someone I've looked up to since I got into the international trail running scene, Ruth shares her 2021 journey which led her to some incredible achievements, including a win at Tarawera Ultramarathon, a 2nd place finish in her 100 mile debut at Western States, and another win at Les Templiers to cap...

The point of this talk is to give tools, information and examples to better plan a trail running season. We believe that self awareness and a bit of knowledge are what should guide us when making our choices related to training and racing. Please join Francesco , Moi and Max as they share their approach to planning their trail running seasons. We also talk about how to get back on rhythm after the...

2021 was a memorable year for many reasons. Through the eyes of Francesco Puppi and Max Keith , we close the year with a deep review of what happened inside the sport of trail and ultra running over the past season. Some topics that we covered: circuits: Golden Trail Series, Ultra Trail World Tour, Skyrunning, World Mountain Running Cup new projects for 2022: UTMB world series, UTMB-IRONMAN partne...

Martina Valmassoi is an outdoor athlete and a community manager for Salomon. She comes from Italy and she’s based in the beautiful Dolomites, where you’ll most likely find her climbing up a slope, running on a ridge or taking breathtaking pictures from her skimo, running or cycling adventures. She’s worked with many elite runners and with the most iconic races and trail running events all over the...

rnnr is a running company based in Colorado that makes super cool hats, beanies, socks and tees. We chatted with Kate and Justin Arsenault, founder and co-founder of rnnr, running enthusiasts and big fans of Vert. Kate and Justin seriously love running, but don’t take themselves too seriously as runners. And that's the main idea behind their company. They were motivated to start rnnr to inspire pe...

Moisés Jimenez is an ultra runner for The North Face and the founder of Vert.run. Moi was born in Venezuela, but he grew up in the Chilean Patagonia, an incredibly wild and unspoilt territory which inspired his passion for trail running. He currently lives in Annecy, France, with his wife Kirsten Kortebein, where you can find them enjoying any kind of outdoor activity in the alpine playground or a...

Lucy Bartholomew is an Australian ultrarunner sponsored by Salomon. Though only 25 years old, she's had an incredible career, placing in some of the toughest ultra trails around the world and becoming one of the most popular athletes in the sport. It wasn't always perfect, it wasn't always easy, but Lucy learned to navigate the highs and lows of running (and life) in a very powerful and inspiring...

Tom Evans is a professional trail and ultra runner sponsored by Redbull and Adidas Terrex from Loughborough, Great Britain. He's been an athlete we have always looked up to since he entered this sport in 2017, making his debut at Marathon des Sables (3rd place). He's covered pretty much any distance and type of terrain, he's crazy fast on the roads (63:15 half marathon PR, 13:41 5000m) and he's go...

Karina Carsolio is a Mexican trail runner (corredora de montaña) sponsored by Salomon. She comes from a family of world class mountaineers from which she inherited her love for the mountains and the high altitudes (she lives above the clouds at 2600m of elevation, on a vulcano!). She enjoys running on very technical terrain, which is no doubt since this year she stood on the podium of Dolomyths Ru...

Pascal Egli is a Swiss mountain runner and ski mountaineer who likes steep and technical races. He has an endless passion for mountains and their unspoilt landscapes, where mostly he feels at home, preferably above 3000m of elevation. While being a world class athlete, he's also completing a PhD in glaciology at the University of Lausanne. Coming out of his first ultra, we sat down and chatted abo...

Francesco Puppi is a Vert.run coach and a pro runner for Nike.  After a hard season where things weren't going to plan, Francesco managed to win one of the most important races of the calendar, becoming the Champion of the Golden Trail Series Final.  On this first episode, Francesco share with us the details of how the race went, what was crossing his mind trough the race, how he prepare...