Exciting announcement incoming! Rock Candy Running’s Beast of Big Creek joins the Vert Running Series for the 2025 season. Scott Sowle is on the show to share the news and give us the details. Let the racing season in the PNW kick off!

• Beast of Big Creek
• Vert Running Series
• Scott Sowle on Singletrack

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Friend of the show Alex Bond is back and we’re chatting about the fate of Outside. The company formerly known as America’s best outdoor magazine and now just a shell of itself with lots and lots of tech under the hood. The news about the latest rounds of layoffs paired with the news they are buying another technology provider puzzles us and Alex and I are here to chat about it. This is a requiem of sort.

• Outside is Done?
• Outside Buys More Tech
• Alex Bond on Singletrack

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This special episode was made possible through the amazing support from Tailwind Nutrition. Maggie Guterl is back as Singletrack co-host on this second episode of a two-part series dedicated to the wonderful, crazy, and often endlessly long world of Backyard Ultras. This week we chat with Sam Harvey and Harvey Lewis. We take a deeper look at the motivations, strategies and principles that can bring you success at this race format that’s growing in popularity all over the world. Talking to these champions of the sport I find myself in awe of what humans are able to achieve… and I find myself scanning UltraSignup for the nearest Backyard Ultra event.

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• Sam Harvey’s website
• Sam Harvey on Instagram
• Harvey Lewis on Instagram
• Living Ultra with Harvey and Kelly on Youtube
• RunUp4Water – Kilimanjaro
• Backyard Ultra
• Tailwind Nutrition
• Part 1: ‘Believe in What’s Possible’, with Fiona Hayvice and Courtney Dauwalter

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This special episode was made possible through the amazing support from Tailwind Nutrition. Maggie Guterl joins Singletrack as co-host on this first episode of a very special two-part series dedicated to the wonderful, crazy, and often endlessly long world of Backyard Ultras. We bring two champions of the sport, Courtney Dauwalter and Fiona Hayvice to the mic to share insights, strategies, and laughter on how to approach these events, how to master them, and most of all how to have fun at them. Backyard Ultras are popping up everywhere, maybe even nearby where you live, or dare I say, maybe in your backyard?

Thank you Tailwind for partnering with Singletrack to share the stories of these incredible voices of our sport.

• Fiona Hayvice on Instagram
• Courtney Dauwalter on Instagram
• M.A.S.H. Backyard Ultra on Instagram
• Backyard Ultra
• Tailwind Nutrition

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It’s the first episode of 2025 and Francesco Puppi, who needs no introduction, joins me for a candid conversation about the state of the trail running media and it’s influence on our sport. We also talk about the message behind Nike’s ad for the Olympic Games and how a new generation of athletes are redefining what participating and winning in a sport really means. People like Francesco are why our sport is so incredible special. What a way to kick off the new year!

• Francesco Puppi on Instagram
• Francesco Puppi’s website
• That Nike Ad ‘Winning isn’t for Everyone‘

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Tim Tollefson wears many hats and came to Singletrack with important business. Tim is newly on the board of directors for Runners for Public Lands. The environmental organization just recently shared the uncomfortable news that our trails and trail races may be significantly impacted this coming year and beyond by the U.S. Forest Service budget and staffing shortfalls. Luckily for us, Tim is a man with a plan and offers hands on experience, and with that solutions and ideas on how we can get involved. It's high time for trail runners to take action.

• Tim Tollefson on Instagram
• Mammoth Trail Fest website
• Runner’s for Public Lands – Call to Action

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Thomas Reiss is back on Singletrack and back from Bhutan where he supported the runners and race organization of the famous and grueling Snowman Race. We chat about the event, the mission that inspired its founding, and mostly the people and how connecting with other cultures makes us better human beings. Climate change affects us all and we really one have that one rock floating in space we call home.

• Thomas Reiss on Instagram
• Snowman Race
• Thomas Reiss on Singletrack
• Nate Bender’s Snowman Race experience on Storymaps

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On September 2, 2024 Michelino Sunseri set a new speed record on Grand Teton in 2h 50m 50s. It was supposed to be a new FKT, beating an old record that has stood for over 12 years. What ensued afterwards turned an epic run into a much talked about news story, a social media fire storm, and an eventual lawsuit. Friend of Michelino, Alex Rienzie was out on the trails that day and shares his observations and some background info on all of it. Alex joined Singletrack on his own initiative and any views expressed are his alone.

• Alex Rienzie’s detailed report on Grizzlies and Avalanches
• Michelino Sunseri’s Strava upload of this run
• Fastest Known Time – Grand Teton

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Canadian multi-sport athlete Jessie McAuley, repping Arc’teryx, joins the show to talk about his journey from competitive mountain bike racing in his youth to finding skimo racing for his winter adventures and trail racing for the summer. As if that’s not enough Jessie still finds time to bike and climb and goes on long adventure runs in the coastal mountains in British Columbia. This seems to works for the Squamish resident who came in 3rd at this year’s Mount Marathon in Seward Alaska and who’s getting ready for another busy season of skimo races here in North America and over in Europe.

• Jessie McAuley’s website: Ocean to Alpine Media
• Jessie McAuley on Instagram
• Beast of Big Creek
• Cover shot by Cayman Waughtel

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