Trail Talk

This week on Trail Talk, Aaron is joined by Charlotte Fisher, stepping in for Ricki, with the show built around her runner-up finish at the UTS 100 Mile, her best result yet at the race. Charlotte walks us through one of the most brutal hundred-milers on the calendar, the technical ground, the cold, the moments it nearly came apart, and the fight to second, before taking on your questions from the week on fuelling, kit, strength training and what comes next. To close, the biggest stories in the sport: Beñat Marmissolle's course-record run at UTS, Tove Alexandersson's record and Kilian Jornet's tough day at Zegama, and a fast weekend at Ultra-Trail Australia headlined by Michael Dunstan.
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This week on Trail Talk, Aaron sits down with Ricki Wynne, George Knight and Yurick Aregger — three elite male runners with Swiss Canyon Trail firmly in their sights. They get into training approaches and volume, how each athlete is tapering, course insights and race strategy, and the mentality it takes to compete at ultra level. We also roundtable the amazing Rachel Entrekin making history at Cocodona 250 — the first woman to win the race outright in its history — and compare what it takes to race at the 200-mile distance.
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This week on Trail Talk, Aaron and Ricki get into it. Swiss Canyon Trail and UTA 100 training is underway — they break down where things are at and what the next weeks look like. Prototype shoes at Western States - is it fair? The golden ticket race calendar dropped this week, with some solid calls and a few they'd have done differently. Walmsley is heading back to Western States without having to race his way in. And the case for Rinjani 162k as the hardest ultra-trail race on the planet.
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This week on Trail Talk, Aaron sits down with Gavan Hennigan — adventurer, endurance athlete, and the only person to finish the Iditarod Trail Invitational this year.
1000 miles across Alaska in the depths of winter. When the trail disappeared a few hundred miles in, every other athlete stopped. Gavan kept going. He finished in 32 days — two days outside the official cutoff — but he finished. Alone. In conditions no one else was willing to face.
This is not a race story. It's a survival story. We cover preparation, nutrition and hydration in extreme cold, managing health on the trail, sleeping in -50°C, wildlife encounters, crossing sea ice on his birthday, decision-making in the wilderness, and the emotional resilience required to keep moving when everything in you wants to stop.
One of the most compelling conversations we've had on Trail Talk.
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This week on Trail Talk, Aaron and Ricki sit down with Charlotte Fisher — a runner who started ultra running in February 2023 with zero running background, won her first event with 12 weeks of training, and has since become one of the most exciting names in British ultra running.
In under three years she has won the Centurion North Downs Way 100, finished 3rd woman at UTS Snowdonia 13 hours faster than the previous year to earn elite UTMB entry, finished 3rd woman at Mallorca by UTMB, and become just the sixth woman ever to run a sub-24 hour Arc of Attrition — finishing 2nd woman overall.
We dig into race strategy, weather, adversity, imposter syndrome, UTMB ambitions, and what drives someone to go from never having raced to competing at the very top of the sport.
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- XMiles 10%
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