Abel Recknold manages the Craft athlete team and is onsite taking care of the team and prepping them however he can to be ready for UTMB 2025.

We understand what happens after the gun goes off and runners start racing. Its intuitive to us. But what about prep? How do they get ready for race day? Abel explains.

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Lotti Brinks crushed races like Gorge Waterfalls and Desert Rats. Now she gets ready for CCC at UTMB. We caught up with her at Hoka's Training Camp to talk about her prep for the world's most competitive 100k.

Mafate 5s out now.

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Allison Baca runs for Hoka (Mafate 5's out now) and will toe the line at CCC next week and the World Championships in late September.

Today she joins us from UTMB camp in Chamonix to talk about preparing for race day and juggling a million things to make it work.

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Hayden Hawks is one of the greatest American Ultratrail Runners of all time.

He is preparing to run UTMB 2025 and joined Josh and Wolfie to talk about it.

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Kade is looking for insight and tips on mental strength as he prepares for the Moab 240. He's joined by Ben Light, an ultrarunning legend, to talk and think through his preparation to run 5x further than he's ever run before.

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The 2025 UTMB field is DEEP at all the marquee distances. 2025 is a great year to be a trail running fan thanks to multpile course records falling. It seems like every course record either fell or was close to it.

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And Leadville! Leadville has been doing its own thing for years without care of concern for outsider criticism (and rightly so). But after two epic years in a row, its becoming 'can't-miss' again.

If you don't want leadville talk skip to ~29:00.

Join Josh + Wolfie.

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Fabrice Perrin, UTMB's Chief of Sport and Sustainability, heard our Bad Runners Take, where we largely celebrated UTMB but also critiqued the new mandatory Travel Fee for 2026, initially applied to runners traveling to the Chamonix Main Event.

UTMB creates strong demand for their event, only to impose a variable fee that increases with travel distance, impacting runners coming from farther away.

Is it greenwashing? Fabrice responds.

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How do you plan for big mountain races at high altitude with lots of climbing. It's UTMB + Leadville season so we're looking at those races and thinking through how best to approach them.

Jesse advises on nutrition for everything from 50k to 200+ milers in this episode.

Jesse Rich of Nutrition Rundown is a coach and nutritionist based in Salt Lake City. He also races ultras with a 1st place win at Wasatch 100, 2nd at Bear 100, and fresh off 11th at a CRAZY competitive Speedgoat.

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Kade Wilcox is the host of Full Price Athlete. He's 10 weeks away from running Moab 240. The final gauntlet is a huge training block difficult even for those who run full time. Kade is a business owner, committed husband and father, volunteer, and more.

Listen to what Kade is planning to do the final 10 weeks before Moab 240.

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