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We’re back! After various holidays, Robin and Kate start the autumn season with Tom Joly, fresh off his finish at UTMB last weekend. They chat about Tom’s race, his training and lead up to the race. We talk about the other stories around UTMB and look forward to Tom’s plans for 2027.
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A fascinating, funny and genuinely heartfelt conversation with Sophie Woods and photographer Zoe Salt about their extraordinary adventure taking on the full Via Alpina. Sophie became the fastest person ever to complete the 2,018km route from Trieste to Monaco, covering more than 117,000m of elevation across eight countries in just 28 days, 17 hours and 59 minutes.


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Laura has just completed her 5th Badwater 135 and was 5th lady in an incredible 29:09:02, coming in under 30 hours. Bar a slightly slower race in 2023, she has got faster and improved her results every year; we chat about her meticulous preparation and training for this incredibly demanding race. Her Chief of Crew and husband Matthew also joined us, giving us unique insight into the logistics of this race.
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Kirsty Reade ran Hardrock 100 two weeks ago, and although she was just over the 48 cut-off to finish, she became the first British woman to finish the loop. Angie Funtanilla volunteered for iRunFar, and was positioned around the course in order to feedback results and photos during the race. She joined Kirsty talking to Kate and Robin about the whole experience from both sides, giving us a fantastic picture of this stunning and tough race.
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David joins Robin and Kate for a fun chat about all things running. We focus on Badwater; the race is coming up in a couple of weeks time and a new film “The Long Way Round”, by Max McGee, premiers on YouTube this Friday, which follows David’s own journey to the race in 2025. We learn about how David got into trail running, started Camino Ultras and the community he’s built around that. And if you want to learn what gaffer tape and vaseline have in common, listen on. It was a huge pleasure chatting to David; it’s a long episode but we had so much more to ask him, so he’s definitely coming back. Possibly the nicest guy in ultra running.
Watch Max’s film here
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