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Damo returns to the podcast to talk about 'sportswashing" in trail and ultra.
Just over a week ago, KMF announced that Dacia would be joining them as a sponsor for this years festival and providing the "Dacia Drive-In Cinema + Live Q&As", much to the surprise of the trail running community and members of the Green Runners.
Dacia made the headlines in trail running media in recent years, when they were the headline sponsor for UTMB in Chamonix. This prompted an outcry from the trial running community and a petition from the Green Runners. The deal with Dacia came to an end and most people assumed that it would be the last time a manufacturer of ICE vehicles attempted to enter the outdoor space......until now.
So this posed a question.....Should organisations that champion the natural environment accept sponsorship from companies whose core products contribute to its degradation?
Damian Hall believes they shouldn't. 
So being a man of his principles, he made the decision to back out of the festival. Being involved with the festival for multiple previous years, he was due to promote his film 'The F Word' made with Summit Fever Media, also to represent Intoultra and lead a group run on behalf of his sponsor Nnormal.
Should he have gone to the festival and raised awareness of the contradiction of the sponsorship, or is he right to take a stand on behalf of his own personal convictions and that of the wider environmentally aware running community?
Listen to find out.
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There's always two sides to any story. 
So, In light of the recent announcement of the 2027 race routes for Skyline Scotland, the inevitable backlash over the routes and the statement made personally by Sam Calvert himself....Home Trails, for the second time, gives Sam the platform to speak directly to you, the British trail running community.
Is the 2027 race a watering down of the races envisioned by Ourea?
Do the races highlight the best that Scotland has to offer?
Will the races ever be true high altitude technical routes?
Will the races evolve going forward?
Will Mark Darbyshire actually get the technical 100 miler that he requested? 
Whether you love or hate UTMB, Sam is doing his best to give everyone what they want, on both sides of the equation. From stakeholders and land owners, to you the trail runner actually doing the races. Sam is keeping true to his promise of more transparency, more answers and a future that's sustainable for everyone.
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On this ULTRA NEWS episode, myself and Woza sit down to chat about the current events taking place in our sport....
Including Rebecca Hormann setting an Ethels FKT over the weekend....
The OMM receiving flak about its event taking place during 2 named storms...
Open Tracking buying out SIentries.......
And the big one....Skyline Scotland by UTMB release their race routes for September 2027 and it's safe to say that the running community have a lot to say about it!
If you Have comments on any of it, then feel free to add them!
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Coach Woza joins the Home Trails Podcast to talk answer your questions!
This one hits a bit differently to our usual training-centric episode....We discuss some tricky subjects, including the question that mainstream media have asking "Are women better ultra-runners than men?" 
Which leads us onto BYU and the affects its having as a niche of a niche in our already niche sport of ultra running. I suggest that backyards are responsible for bringing new runners into our sport that may not have taken the traditional route into ultra.
We talk about the science of footwear, including Altra and Nike who have just released their own zero drop shoe. Is it for everyone? Woza talks about how to safely rotate the shoes in our shoe quiver.
Is running being watered down by running groups within our sport? We touch on the sensitive subject of women's safety in running and racing and we decide that more needs to be said on the subject, especially by men on podcasts!
And finally, how often can we break ourselves in big races and recover enough to do it again the same year.
This episode is a big one and I hope that in he subjects we discuss, we come across as intended, two people who are trying their best to discuss sensitive subjects without offending anyone, because that was our intention.
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On the Home Trails Podcast this week, we have Andy Fìor-Berry.
Andy is a well known British mountain ultra runner, who has steadily built a reputation for tackling some of the UK's most iconic rounds and races. 
He's taken on the Steve Parr Round, Paddy Buckley, Winter Tranter's and the Bob Graham Round to name a few. He's won the Lakeland 100  in recent years and runs himself into the top 10 at international ultras around the world.
Andy is a big personality in the sport and always has a lot to say about what's happening in ultra running.
We talk about his superhero origin story. His time split between Durham and The Highands and his life balance of coaching and plumbing.
In this episode we introduce a new segment call MJUM Asks...and we get his answer to quite a personal question about his current sponsor. Andy also speaks about him being asked (2nd hand) to be involved in the Captains BGR attempt....you'll need to listen to hear that answer! 
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