Trail Society

This week, Corrine Malcolm brings listeners a special live episode from TrailCon, featuring a Women’s Health and Performance panel led by Keely Henninger alongside Dr. Emily Kraus, Dr. Gauri Desai, and Dr. Alyssa Olenick . The panel digs into some of the most important topics in women’s endurance health today, including: low energy availability bone health across the lifespan training through preg...

Trail Society teamed up with our Feisty Media sister podcast, Another Mother Runner, for a special episode recorded in Tahoe ahead of Western States. This episode originally dropped on the Another Mother Runner feed on Friday, June 26, 2026, and we're sharing it with you all here because we loved the conversation. Another Mother Runner host, Sarah Bowen Shea, is joined by Trail Society's Corrine M...

This week, ahead of Western States this weekend, we're revisiting and re-airing our conversation with last year's champion Abby Hall — about growth, grit, and what it means to chase excellence over a long period of time. They talk about: Abby's evolution through a decade in the sport How she found her footing in ultras and her relationship with the 100-mile distance And, of course, the long road a...

This week, Corrine Malcolm and Hillary Allen catch up after Hillary’s muddy, unpredictable day at Unbound Gravel 200 and use it as a jumping-off point to talk about adaptability, uncertainty, and what happens when a season stops following the original script. Why and how Unbound became a part of Hillary's season How the race unfolded in wild lightning storms and epic mud What shifting to more bike...

This week Corrine Malcolm is joined by Kate Veronneau, the director of women’s strategy at Zwift, a former professional cyclist, and one of the major driving forces behind the growth of women’s cycling and the huge success of the Tour de France Femmes. How Kate went from pro cyclist to creating real opportunities and pathways for women to become professional cyclists What it takes to build better...

This week, Corrine Malcolm and Keely Henninger open up the Coaches Corner for a listener-driven grab bag of training questions. How to find the right trail shoe without wasting a ton of money What the path into coaching can actually look like Why the real “magic formula” for improvement is usually a lot less glamorous than people want it to be. They also talk through high-volume training, stage-ra...

This week, Corrine Malcolm is joined by one of the most exciting short-course racers on the circuit, Dani Moreno. Podiums at OCC, USATF trail national championships at the 50K and half-marathon, Broken Arrow and UTMB Major wins, Dani's also dealt with catastrophic injuries and setbacks. They talk about: The path from collegiate running to outdoor guiding to professional trail racing — and the feel...

It's a timely subject: This week, Corrine Malcolm and Hillary Allen dive into not just the physical side of injury, but the mental skills needed. With Hillary dealing with her own injury right now, she's put a lot of time and thought into building a practical injury toolkit: Normalizing the mental struggle athletes go through Reframing your goals Controlling what you can control And building a rec...

This week, Corrine Malcolm sits down with Canadian runner Jenny Quilty to talk about curiosity and why she balances epic mountain events with flat fast racing. If you don't know Jenny yet, you should! She's won some of the most famously hard races on the circuit. They talk about: Why she picks races by feel and what she wants to do — even if that means skipping UTMB this year How her relationship...

Do you know your sweat rate? Or how much sodium you should be replacing as the weather gets hotter? That's what today's episode is for! This week, Corrine Malcolm and Keely Henninger dive into all things hydration as the season and the sun heats up. They break down: Osmolality and what it means for training and racing How to do some basic sweat testing at home And, of course, balancing hydration w...

This week, Corrine sits down with Lizzy Fowler for a conversation about identity, resilience, and rebuilding after life splits into "before" and "after." They talk about Lizzy’s traumatic brain injury in college, the long process of learning to live in a body and brain that felt unfamiliar, and how ultrarunning became a way to test her edges, find flow, and begin trusting herself again. The two al...

This week, Corrine Malcolm and Hillary Allen are tackling the topic of belief and the role self-belief plays as a performance tool. How belief shapes attention, effort, and perception Why expectations can change the way training and racing feel And how athletes can use practical mindset tools to build confidence in real time They also dig into the science behind placebo effects, performance, and f...

Researcher and runner Katherine Boere joins Corrine to talk about the connection between physiological depletion and cognitive function in runners. We've all been there: Making wild choices late in races that we swear seemed to make sense at the time. Why do decisions seem to get harder after you've run farther? The two of them dig into: the research around cognitive fatigue in marathons and ultra...

In this episode of Trail Society , Corrine and Keely dig into the question a lot of female athletes ask this time of year, as training starts to ramp back up: Is this normal fatigue, or could it be anemia? They break down the difference between training stress and iron deficiency Why ferritin matters even when your labs look “normal” And what athletes should pay attention to when their body starts...

Olympic medalist Shannon Rowbury and pelvic health physical therapist Jess Dorrington join Corrine to talk about their new book, Strong as a Mother , and the bigger conversation around pregnancy, postpartum, and athleticism. Together, they explore what it means to stay active during pregnancy, how runners can think about returning to sport postpartum, and why strength during motherhood may look di...

Jane Maus is coming off a huge early-season win at Black Canyon 50K — but her story is about far more than a finish line. From battling chronic pre-race nerves to chasing the Grand Teton FKT, making the Short Trail World Championships Team, and stepping into a new partnership with Arc’teryx, Jane’s last two years have been anything but linear. In this episode, we talk about: Why she struggles to e...

Hillary is back from her recent travels, Corrine shares some upcoming race decisions, and then they dive into the topic of the day: Why some athletes are “clutch” on the world’s biggest stages, while others “choke”—and what the rest of us can learn from those moments. Corrine and Hillary explore the science of performance under pressure—from Olympic heartbreak to gold-medal breakthroughs. They bre...

What does it take to become a Paralympian in a sport you just learned? This week, Corrine sits down with Team USA Paralympian Dani Aravich — a Nordic skier and biathlete (that's skiing and shooting) heading into her third Paralympic Games right now. How did she go from DI runner to professional sports executive to discovering the Paralympic movement and jumping headfirst into a brand new sport? Da...

Corrine and Keely recap Winter Olympics highlights and the latest Western States Golden Ticket qualifiers before diving into the research on injuries in female athletes . They explore whether women are actually more injury-prone, what role hormones and the menstrual cycle may play, and how factors like training load, strength work, and energy availability influence injury risk and recovery. They c...

What does it mean to say trail running is for everyone — when not everyone feels safe at the start line? In this deeply honest and urgent conversation, Corrine sits down with trail runner and immigration attorney Carolina Rubio-MacWright to talk about what’s happening right now in immigrant communities — and why our sport cannot pretend it’s separate from the political reality of the world we live...

Keely’s back from her Step 1 Medical Licensing Exam and honeymoon chaos, and we’re diving straight into one of the most important conversations for female athletes right now: stress. Stress from training. Stress from life. Stress from the world. Stress from big exams and big dreams. It's a perfect transition into the brand new 2025 Female Athlete Triad Coalition consensus update and what those cha...

After years at the top of the trail and ultra running worlds—Hardrock 100 champion, Nolan’s 14 FKT holder, and consistent podium finisher— Sabrina Stanley 's life changed overnight when she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2025. What followed were multiple surgeries, chemotherapy, medical menopause, and ongoing immunotherapy. In this conversation with host and friend Corrine Malcolm , Sabrina...

Training stress isn’t just about mileage, vert, or workouts — it’s about everything else competing for your energy, too. In this episode of Trail Society , Corrine Malcolm and co-host Hillary Allen share both the science and their experiences with mental fatigue, allostatic load, and burnout . From road marathon training and international travel to work stress, technology overload, and emotional s...

We're sharing a special episode today from our new Feisty Media family to help you deal with and take away some action items for the collective trauma many of us are going through right now, whether it's new for you or simply heightened. Along with being a sports psychologist & therapist in her own right, the Feisty Women's Performance podcast host Dr. Erin Ayala also lives in Minneapolis, Min...

What does endurance look like when perfection is no longer the goal? In this deeply personal episode, host Corrine Malcolm sits down with professional runner and mountain athlete Olivia Amber for a conversation about movement, identity, health, and choosing paths that don’t always make sense on paper but that feel right in the body. Olivia grew up in a small Nordic ski community in northern Wiscon...