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Vert is the home for every trail & ultra runner. On this podcast we host conversations with key members of our Trail & Ultra running community from all over the world. From professional world class athletes to our Vert.run members and community. Narrating captivating stories and learning from and about this amazing sport.
- 158 - 157. Roberto Delorenzi | Skyrunner World Series Champion, consistency at the top level, highest race results to training ratio??
Roberto Delorenziis a professional trail runner for Brooks coming from Switzerland. Roberto has had a stellar 2024 season, with 38 races and 17 wins including 4 Skyrunner World Series races plus the final and the overall ranking, one european mountain running championship, a third place at Marathon du Mont Blanc, a fifth place in 2:32 at Sierre Zinal, 3 sub 30’ in the 10k, a low 64’ half marathon and many, many other great results.
We caught up with him during his off-season while he’s already keen on getting back to training, we dove deep into his 2024 as well as how he’s developed into the athlete he is today, from his love for the outdoors to his training philosophy and how’s become one of the best professional trail runners in the world. Roberto is also a great friend and we’ve known each other since we were little. We shared an altitude training camp earlier this year, many great battles and a lot of great and fun moments together.
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Wed, 04 Dec 2024 - 1h 07min - 157 - 156. Lauren Gregory | Elevating the game in trail running
Lauren Gregory is a professional trail runner for Nike from Colorado, living on the East Coast and training with the Northswood Athletic team, under the guidance of coach Ben True - a true legend of distance running. Lauren is really, really fast, from the track to the trails: within one season, this year, she ran a 15:17 5000m on the track and she was able to take second at the golden trail world series final in Switzerland.
In this episode, we talk about collegiate running, golden trail, track and trails and how one can help the other, elevating the game in our sport, health, and many other interesting topics.
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Wed, 27 Nov 2024 - 52min - 156 - 155. Eli Hemming | Working my way up to the top: how to become a professional trail runner
Eli Hemming is a professional runner for Adidas Terrex from Kremmling, Colorado.
Eli is maybe my greatest competitor of this 2024: we shared the podium at OCC in Chamonix, where he was first and I was second, so I absolutely wanted to have him on the podcast at some point. We’re good friends in life and great enemies during competitions, and we both think this is the best way to show our mutual respect as athletes and competitors: offering the best we’re capable of to each other.
In this conversation we talk about Eli’s life and training with her wife Tabor, in their ranch on the mountains of Colorado, his background as an elite triathlete, becoming a professional trail runner, his upcoming debut in the 50m distance at JFK 50 this weekend and much more.
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Wed, 20 Nov 2024 - 1h 04min - 155 - 154. Vic Johnson | Nutrition principles for outdoor athletes - part 2
Vic Johnson is maybe better known on the internet as Mountain Sports Dietician.
The principles surrounding sports nutrition are relatively simple - applying them is not. Vic’s mission is very simple, to help high performing mountain athletes apply these principles properly so they can fuel and hydrate to make the most of their training and perform well at races.
In this short series of episodes that I recorded with Vic, we’re going to learn more about the topic of nutrition for endurance athletes, without pretending to exhaust the topic, but with the aim to give some practical, handy knowledge that you can apply to your own training and racing. This is the second part of our conversation.
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Wed, 13 Nov 2024 - 46min - 154 - 153. Vic Johnson | Nutrition principles for outdoor athletes - part 1
Vic Johnson is maybe better known on the internet as Mountain Sports Dietician.
The principles surrounding sports nutrition are relatively simple - applying them is not. Vic’s mission is very simple, to help high performing mountain athletes apply these principles properly so they can fuel and hydrate to make the most of their training and perform well at races.
In this short series of episodes that I recorded with Vic, we’re going to learn more about the topic of nutrition for endurance athletes, without pretending to exhaust the topic, but with the aim to give some practical, handy knowledge that you can apply to your own training and racing.
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Wed, 06 Nov 2024 - 55min - 153 - 152. Matt Daniels | Navigating running and life's rollercoaster
Matt Daniels is a good friend of mine - we’ve known each other since 2016 - and a great, great athlete and mentor. He lives in Boulder, Colorado. I’ve met with Matt in four different countries this year, and we’ve shared a memorable battle at the Chuckanut 50k in Bellingham WA, in March, where I finished first and he finished second, pushing me all the way to the finish to set a new course record.
After a really good first half of the year, Matt struggled to find the right feelings during training and the races he ran reflected his physical and mental condition. In this episode the main theme is the unique connection between the hardships we face in life and those we experience on the trails. We also talk about his training and preparation for Javelina 100m, why he’s confident he can be successful at the 100m distance, how his track background has both helped and hindered his training as a trail runner, his experience with the Boulder Boys as athletes and content creators.
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Wed, 30 Oct 2024 - 1h 07min - 152 - 151. Peter Frano | 2024 CCC runner up
Peter Frano is an elite trail runner from Slovakia who won a bronze medal at the world trail championships 2023 in Innsbruck and finished second at UTMB CCC in 2024. In this episode we discover more about Peter’s training and background, his preparation leading up to CCC, his race strategy and his plans for the future.
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Wed, 23 Oct 2024 - 35min - 151 - 150. Rosanna Buchauer | CCC podium and race strategy, physical and mental fitness, female athletes, pros and cons of being a pro athlete, the importance of cheering for our competitors
Rosanna Buchauer is a professional trail runner from Germany running for Dynafit. This year Rosanna won the Lavaredo Ultra Trail and placed 3rd at CCC at UTMB.
In this episode, we discuss everything about her race, how important it was for her to build confidence after her DNF last year, the physical and mental preparation, what goals she had going into it and how she overcame the low moments to climb on the podium. We also talk about female athletes, the importance of supporting and cheering for our competitors, the pros and cons of being a pro athlete, building an identity outside the sport and much, much more.
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Wed, 16 Oct 2024 - 1h 07min - 150 - 149. Dani Moreno | Going all in as a pro athlete, media dynamics in our sport, sub ultra racing, trail running rankings
Dani Moreno is a professional trail runner for Adidas Terrex based in Mammoth Lakes, California. Dani is a great, great athlete and a true student of the sport.
She has a really good perspective on various dynamics concerning our sport at an elite level, she hosts a podcast called The Sub Hub, together with Emkay Sullivan, she runs fast both on the roads and on trails. In this episode we talk about our races at OCC in Chamonix, injuries and mental health, contentment, about media and how they influence the development of the sport, brands and sponsorships, trail running rankings and a lot more.
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Wed, 09 Oct 2024 - 1h 18min - 149 - 148. Vincent Bouillard | 2024 UTMB Champion
Vincent Bouillard is the 2024 UTMB Champion.
With an incredible masterclass of race tactics and management, Vincent took everyone by surprise and won the most prestigious ultra trail race of the year, finishing sub 20h and running the third fastest performance of all time at UTMB. In this episode we talk about Vincent’s race, his background, his work as a Hoka Shoe Engineer, if and how his life has changed since his achievement.
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Wed, 02 Oct 2024 - 1h 19min - 148 - 147. Meet the coaches | Steve Krenn
Steve Krenn is a trail runner and a coach from New York City.
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Wed, 25 Sep 2024 - 45min - 147 - 146. A conversation around weight, body image, eating disorders and relative energy deficiency in sport
In this episode Francesco is joined by coach Andy for a conversation around weight, Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport, eating disorders and body image in endurance athletes and endurance sports, particularly trail running.
We give some facts and figures and we share our own thoughts and experiences with these issues. We’re glad that they are becoming less and less of a taboo, but there’s still a lot to be done to prevent them and to help the athletes and the coaches and build a better training and sport ecosystem in general.
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Wed, 18 Sep 2024 - 1h 00min - 146 - 145. UTMB week stories and recap
Today we're joined by coach Max, coach Manu and coach Steve for a recap of the UTMB week.
Steve finished MCC and Francesco took second in OCC. Besides the races, the UTMB week is always a great chance to connect with and meet old friends and new people. The high energy and vibrant atmosphere left everyone inspired and grateful for the community that we have in our sport.
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Wed, 11 Sep 2024 - 1h 14min - 145 - 144. Daniel Rowland | Recovery strategies and long term athletic development - reposted
As the summer season is coming to an end and especially after last week's UTMB, we figured it's important to re-listen to this conversation with Coach Daniel Rowland on recovery and managing the time after a race.
It’s a very delicate period, both physically and mentally: we need to make sure that we are actually taking enough time to rest after a race and many months hard training, and we need to start laying the foundation of what is next.
In this conversation we talk about how the cardiovascular, muscular and hormonal systems recover at different times after a race, how we can maintain fitness, how long we should recover within the context of a racing season and with an eye to our long term athletic development.
Daniel Rowland is a trail and ultramarathon runner, a Vert.run coach and an expert in endurance science. Follow him on Twitter @dwrowland !
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Wed, 04 Sep 2024 - 58min - 144 - 143. Athlete guide | How to run OCC
A guide on how to run OCC: from race preparation, logistics and gear to course description and strategy
Resources: UTMB runner guide
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Wed, 21 Aug 2024 - 29min - 143 - 142. Athlete guide | How to run CCC
A guide on how to run CCC: from race preparation, logistics and gear to course description and strategy
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Wed, 14 Aug 2024 - 29min - 142 - 141. Athlete guide | How to run UTMB
A guide on how to run UTMB: from race preparation, logistics and gear to course description, strategy and how to figure out what to do after the race!
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Wed, 07 Aug 2024 - 56min - 141 - 140. Meet the coaches | Manu Ramirez
Manu Ramirez is a trail runner and a coach from Venezuela. He trains and lives between Colombia and Panama.
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Wed, 31 Jul 2024 - 59min - 140 - 139. Jonathan Albon | Western States experience, training ideas, load management and motivation
Jonathan Albon is a professional trail runner for The North Face living in Norway and one of the most accomplished and decorated athletes of our sport. Jon has just raced at Western States, his first ever experience at the 100m distance, where he placed 6th. In this episode we talk about his race at WS and the training leading up to it. We also talk about his training philosophy, how he manages and tracks his training load, how much he’s influenced by what other athletes are doing, his motivation to train and race, and much more.
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Wed, 24 Jul 2024 - 1h 12min - 139 - 138. Meet the coaches | Andy Chickness
Andrea Chickness is a trail runner, a professional ballet dancer and a coach for Vert.run. She trains and lives in the United States.
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Wed, 17 Jul 2024 - 48min - 138 - 137. Ask me anything with Francesco
How did you start trail running? How do you see your future as a runner? will we ever see you at the start of a famous 100 miler? How did you figure out the nutrition strategy that works for you? And much more.
Thanks for your questions, if you have more, feel free to send me a DM or comment under this episode on Spotify!
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Wed, 10 Jul 2024 - 1h 02min - 137 - 136. Coach Lab with Moises Jimenez | The reality of endurance training: handling setbacks, learning from mistakes, keeping it fun
Moises Jimenez is a trail and ultrarunner for The North Face and co-founder of Vert.run. He currently lives in Boulder, US.
In this episode we talk about the reality of endurance training: training is hard and progress is often non linear. We must learn to navigate the ups and downs of training and racing, the setbacks, the tough workouts and bad races, always trying to focus on what matters and keeping it fun.
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Wed, 03 Jul 2024 - 43min - 136 - 135. Germain Grangier | Running seriously, but not taking myself too seriously
Germain Grangier is a professional trail and endurance athlete from France sponsored by The North Face.
In this conversation, we discover more about Germain’s lifestyle, his approach to training and racing, why he chose to live in the Mercantour region of the French Alps, the potential he sees in dealing with struggles and setbacks, and his build-up to UTMB, after taking third in 2023.
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Wed, 26 Jun 2024 - 1h 08min - 135 - 134. Meet the coaches | Zeljko Radovic
Zeljko Radovic is a trail runner and a coach for Vert.run from Belgrade, Serbia
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Wed, 19 Jun 2024 - 50min - 134 - 133. Rising stars of the sport: Lukas Ehrle
Lukas Ehrle is a trail, mountain and track athlete from Germany. Lukas is only 19 years old but he's already an accomplished athlete and for sure one of the most interesting rising stars in the sport of distance running. His versatility from the track to the trails is impressive and he represents really well the approach to running that the new generations are bringing to the sport, with his professionalism, focus and high level commitment. He recently earned two medals at the European mountain and trail running championships in Annecy, placing third in the uphill race and second in the up and down race. In this episode we chat about his races, how he trains and how he plans to develop his career in the sport.
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Wed, 12 Jun 2024 - 1h 03min - 133 - 132. Coach Lab with Max Keith | GPS watches: best models, most important features and how to take advantage of your GPS watch for trail running
Max Keith is a trail runner from Chile and the co-founder of Vert.
In this episode we talk about GPS watches: from how to choose a GPS and how to use it, to the best models, the different activity data and some of the most recent innovations in the market.
Maybe you have a GPS watch but you’ve never really understood how to take advantage of a certain feature, or whether a certain data or feedback that the GPS is giving you is actually relevant: then, this episode is for you.
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Wed, 05 Jun 2024 - 41min - 132 - 131. Meet the coaches | Adam Brown
Adam Brown is a trail runner and a coach for Vert.run from Australia
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Wed, 29 May 2024 - 52min - 131 - 130. Sophia Laukli | Running and skiing: my life, my soul
Sophia Laukli is a professional trail runner and cross country skier for Salomon coming from the US.
Sophia is only 23 but is already a star of the sport, being the 2023 Golden Trail World Series champion, having won races like the Mont Blanc Marathon and Sierre Zinal and her first cross country skiing world cup race this year.
I decided to reach out to Sophia knowing that she’s battling through an injury and wanting to know how she’s dealing with it and how she feels. As elite athletes, we know that injuries are part of the game but they’re still a very hard situation to get through, and I think being able to support each other and just openly talk about what we go through and what we struggle with can be valuable and teach us something.
During this episode we also discuss training on skis vs running, good and bad sides of both sports, how Sophia plans and handles her training and much much more. It turned out to be a really powerful and interesting episode, and I’m grateful to Sophia for sharing her own perspective in a very honest and authentic way.
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Wed, 22 May 2024 - 1h 14min - 130 - 129. Coach Lab with Max Keith | What types of tests can you do to monitor your fitness? Tracking progress and understanding how you're responding to training
Max Keith is a trail runner from Chile and the co-founder of Vert.
In this episode we talk about the different types of tests that you can do to monitor your fitness. Tracking progress is not always easy, and tests are a good way to understand how you’re responding to training, if you know what you’re doing and how to interpret the data - something that your coach can definitely help you with. From very simple field tests like a time trial, an uphill test or the max heart rate test, to more complex lab tests like the VO2max or the lactate test, we will try to shed some light on what you can learn through performing different running tests for your performance.
As always, the principle that is guiding us is to do everything we do with awareness, while having fun: it's very important to have an understanding of what we’re doing, based on who we are, what we do and what our goals are, something that of course a good coach can really help you with.
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Wed, 15 May 2024 - 37min - 129 - 128. Kirsten Kortebein | The behind the scenes that most people don't see: building Vert, unglamorous work, freelancing, life between the US and Europe
I’m recording this interview live, from the Vert.run headquarters in Boulder and my guest today is Kirsten Kortebein. Kirsten is one of the vert.run co-founders, together with her partner Moises Jimenez and their friend Max Keith. We talk about what she thinks and how she feels about the journey with Vert, what are some of the challenges that she had to face in her working experience, we talk about work and life balance, setting priorities, growing the company, living with an endurance athlete, crewing experiences and much more.
I’m sorry if the audio quality is not the best, but I hope you can forgive us and still find the conversation interesting and fun.
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Wed, 08 May 2024 - 1h 02min - 128 - 127. Coach Lab with Steve Krenn | How to find new trails and how to build routes
Steve Krenn is a trail runner from New York and a Vert.run coach.
In this episode, Steve and I give some tips on how to find trails when you're in a new place, for example for a work trip or when you are on vacation, how to build routes, how to discover the most popular trails in a certain area, how to take advantage of some route builder apps and heatmaps, how to use your gps navigation features.
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Wed, 01 May 2024 - 37min - 127 - 126. Francesco Puppi and Leo Pershall | Lake Sonoma recap: preparation, strategy, nutrition, gear and post race reflections
Last week Leo and I ran the Lake Sonoma 50 and Lake Sonoma Marathon in California. We both had very good races, with Leo placing 7th overall in the marathon in 4:01:53, and I winning the LS50 with a new course record in 6:30:17. This is our race recap: we talk about our training leading up to the race, strategy, taper, nutrition, gear, approach, what we learned, what the experience meant and felt like for both of us.
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Wed, 24 Apr 2024 - 1h 15min - 126 - 125. Coach Lab with Parker Farabee | Strength Training for trail runners
Parker Farabee is a trail runner, physiotherapist, exercise physiologist and coach from Portland, Oregon.
In this episode we talk about strength training for trail runners. Why is strength training so important, why do we need strength as trail runners? Of course we're not bodybuilders, so how much strenght do we need?
What type of strength training do we need in order to get stronger, but not bulkier?
We will give some practical examples for the application of strength training in your normal training routine, how you should do it, how often and for how long.
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Wed, 17 Apr 2024 - 42min - 125 - 124. Seth Ruhling | Boulder Boys fan favorite. Training and life in Boulder, the professionalization of the sport, comparing the US and European trail running scene and much more
I’m recording this interview live, from the vert run headquarters in boulder aka moi’s house, and my guest today is Seth Ruhling. Seth is a North Face sponsored athlete, a podcast host and a boulder boy fans favorite. He’s originally from Tennessee but he’s moved to Boulder to chase his dream to train and compete at the highest level in the sport of trail and ultrarunninng.
In this episode, we chat about training and life in Boulder, what makes this community unique, what are some pros and cons of living here, we also talk about the professionalization of the sport, comparing the European and the us trail running scene, and the pressure that athletes often face to compete in longer distances, giving up an organic and probably healthier athletic development, something that is gradually changing and making the sport more competitive and interesting, with media fans and brands giving more attention to short races and sub ultra events.
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Wed, 10 Apr 2024 - 1h 00min - 124 - 123. Yngvild Kaspersen, Toni McCann, Dani Moreno | Updates from Auburn, CA
Yngvild Kaspersen, Toni McCann and Dani Moreno are professional trail athletes for Adidas Terrex and respectively CCC 2023 winner, OCC 2023 winner and third place finisher at OCC 2022.
Yngvild, Toni and Dani are currently in Auburn for a short training camp on the Western States trails, so I thought it would be fun to catch up and see how they’re doing, how their training is going, how they support each other, who’s mostly in charge of cooking, who makes the best coffee, and much more. As endurance athletes, we don’t always get to share our training with other people, but when we do, that’s where the magic happens.
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Wed, 03 Apr 2024 - 58min - 123 - 122. Benjamin Roubiol | Catching up with the 2023 trail running world champion
Benjamin Roubiol is our 2023 trail running world champion. Benjamin comes from France (Savoie) won the world title in the long race in Innsbruck, on a 80km course with 6000m of elevation. We catch up with Benjamin to know how he’s doing and how he is structuring his training in this first part of the season, his goals in 2024, some curiosities about his still very young career and world championship race last year, his studies in environmental science and forest management.
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Wed, 27 Mar 2024 - 33min - 122 - 121. Coach Lab with Steve Krenn | Tips for trail running at night
Steve Krenn is a trail runner from New York and a Vert.run coach.
Running at night can be a beautiful and rewarding experience, if you know how to do it. Some of the most famous ultra trail races often include running through the night. During the wintertime, when the days are short, we’re often running through the dark, before or after school or work. What are some of the best practices that can make your night running experience better and safer? What are some of the things you should pay attention to? From how to choose a headlamp, to navigation, to clothes and gear for the night, everything you need to know about the topic.
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Wed, 20 Mar 2024 - 33min - 121 - 120. Carlos Ferrer | Mile & Stone - The must-read newsletter for trail running pros and enthusiasts
Carlos Ferrer Fernández is a trail runner from Paris and the managing director of the newsletter Mile and Stone. I invited Carlos on the podcast after following his newsletter for a while, and discovering a great project that I feel like is contributing to more knowledge, better information and more professionalization in the trail and ultra running space. In this episode, we chat about the genesis of this newsletter, why it’s particularly interesting and how it’s structured, we talk about some of the current and most popular topics of discussions of our sports, and some of its developments, from an economical and structural standpoint.
If you’re a passionate trail runner, if you want to find a job in the trail space, if you want ty stay updated with the most recent news related to our sport, I encourage you all to sign up to Mile and Stone:
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Wed, 13 Mar 2024 - 1h 08min - 120 - 119. Kimi Schreiber | The value of authenticity
Kimi Schreiber is a professional trail runner, a journalist and a podcaster from Germany. She runs for Adidas Terrex.
In this episode, we chat about running, training and trail running media, but the main topic of our conversation is probably authenticity: the courage to be ourselves and show other people what we really are, not what we pretend to be.
In a world where success is so often tied to performance, where the comparison game of social media causes much more mental stress than we’d like to admit, where we’re constantly exposed to criticism and judgement, I found Kimi’s reflections particularly valuable and extremely relatable. This is really one of the episodes of running long that I’ve enjoyed the most.
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Wed, 06 Mar 2024 - 1h 00min - 119 - 118. Coach Lab with Parker Farabee | How to build an aerobic base
Parker Farabee is a trail runner, physiotherapist, exercise physiologist and coach from Portland, Oregon.
In this episode we talk about base training and how to build an aerobic base.
What are the benefits of base training?
Why is it essential to increase our work capacity and improve fatigue resistance?
What happens to our bodies when we're training at an easy intensity?
Why is hard, intense training not a substitute for aerobic training?
These are just some of the questions we will answer in today’s episode.
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Wed, 28 Feb 2024 - 30min - 118 - 117. Robbie Simpson | Running fast on any surface, any distance
Robbie Simpson is a professional trail and road runner from Scotland, sponsored by Adidas Terrex. Robbie is one of the best all around athletes in the world: he's run anything from 5k on the road to ultramarathons. He's been on the podium of Sierre-Zinal FIVE times, he's won a world mountain running championships bronze medal, and he's won a medal in the marathon at the Commonwealth Games. We talk about training, racing, combining roads and trails, turning pro, making a living from the sport, and much, much more.
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Wed, 21 Feb 2024 - 1h 07min - 117 - 116. Coach lab with Max Keith | How to monitor your training
Max Keith is a trail runner from Chile and the co-founder of Vert. In this episode we talk about how to monitor your training: what data and metrics should we be paying attention to? Technology, with all kinds of data, has become so easy to access, but what is actually relevant and what should we really care about? What can we learn from the analysis of what we’ve done in the past?
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Wed, 14 Feb 2024 - 50min - 116 - 115. Henriette Albon | Winter Bob Graham Round FKT, quitting a "normal" job and turning pro, balancing racing and personal projects, keeping it fun!
Henriette Albon is a professional runner for Arc'teryx living in Norway.
Henriette just set the women’s winter FKT of the Bob Graham Round, one of the most challenging and famous trail routes in the British Lake District, tagging 42 peaks and covering 106 miles with over 8000m of elevation.
In this episode we talk about the challenges of her adventure, how she planned it and executed it, we discuss racing and FKTs in trail running, quitting her 9-5 job to become a professional athlete, defining success and where she finds her sense of validation, training and living with an absolute star of the trail running world like John Albon.
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Wed, 07 Feb 2024 - 59min - 115 - 114. Coach lab with Parker Farabee | How to deal with an injury, cross training and rehab.
Parker Farabee is a trail runner, physiotherapist, exercise physiologist and coach from Portland, Oregon. In this episode we talk about how to deal with an injury and about cross training and rehab. We will point out and clarify some of the most important things you should do when you get injured, how you can and should maintain consistency in your training, how to cross train, how to establish a recovery protocol, how you should work with your coach and your physio to get healthier and manage the return to running.
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Wed, 31 Jan 2024 - 29min - 114 - 113. Voices from the Vert.run community: Kristin Jensen | Trail running in Denmark, training with Vert, running long and backyard ultras
Kristin Jensen is a trail runner from Denmark and a Vert.run explore athlete. Kristin is a passionate runner whose goal is, like many other athletes that we coach, to run longer, faster and stronger while having fun in the process. In this episode we talk about being a trail runner in Denmark, probably not the most typical place you would think when it comes to running on trails or in the mountains, about Kristin’s experience with training with Vert, developing community, navigating the ups and down of training and racing, goal setting and much more.
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Wed, 24 Jan 2024 - 44min - 113 - 112. Katie Schide | All the little things add up
Katie Schide is a professional trail runner for The North Face from the US, living in France.
Katie is one of the most well known and established trail runners in the world: she’s just been awarded the second place of the Trail Runner of the Year Award presented by Freetrail, and as well as the second place of the historic Ultra Runner of the Year Award by Ultrarunning Magazine.
She’s a 2021 UTMB winner, a 2023 Western States runner up, with a time that would have won every edition but last year, she also placed second at OCC and she won Diagonal de Fous in 2023, besides a long list of world class performances in the past years in her resume.
Katie currently lives in the Mercantour region of the French Alps with her partner, elite trail runner himself, Germain Grangier. She’s a geologist, and she loves spending long days moving through the mountains – whether that be running, skiing, biking, or a combination of all three.
In this episode we talk about Katie’s training and approach to racing, dealing with sponsors, media and brands, living in France and about the current state of the sport of trail running.
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Wed, 17 Jan 2024 - 1h 10min - 112 - 111. Common misconceptions in training for trail and ultra running
In this episode we talk about some common misconceptions in training for trail and ultras.
With the recent increase in participation in trail and ultrarunning and more and more people coming to trail running from the roads or other endurance sports, team sports, or from being sedentary, we felt a need to discuss some common myths and not always accurate ideas about training for trail and ultras, such as that training for trails and ultras will make you slow, that you have to live in the mountains in order to succeed at trail running, that you have to commit to either roads or trails.
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Wed, 10 Jan 2024 - 1h 17min - 111 - 110. Dan Curts | Trail and road fitness, Northswood Athletic Team, trail running on the East Coast
Dan Curts is a professional trail runner for Brooks coming from New Hampshire, United States.
With PRs of 3:43 in the 1500m, sub 4 min in the mile and 13:38 in the 5000m, Dan is a really fast, really talented runner who’s main focus is on mountain running and the sub ultra distances. This year he won the US mountain running up and down champs and has competed at the world trail and mountain running championships in Innsbruck.
In this episode we talk about Dan’s training, how road and track fitness can translate into trail fitness, trail workouts vs track and road running workouts; we talk about the Northswood Athletic Team and training with a track star like Ben True, we talk about the trail scene in the East of the united states, where Dan is based with his girlfriend Lauren Gregory and teammate Eric Lipuma.
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Wed, 03 Jan 2024 - 55min - 110 - 109. Max Keith | The Speed Project Atacama 2023
Our own Max Keith just ran The Speed Project Atacama, a 500km crossing of the Atacama Desert that is not just a race, it’s an adventure, a deep dive into the unknown, a shared experience with all the participants and crews, an introspective journey across one’s emotions and soul.
The only rule of this event is that there are no rules, and that you need to cover the approximately 500km between start and finish, alone or in a team of six participants. The spirit of the race manifests in the desire to overcome one’s limits by covering distances that seem impossible, with the sole aim of succeeding.
Unfortunately, we can’t give you a link to sign up to this race, because there are no links, no website, no official organization.
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Wed, 20 Dec 2023 - 1h 18min - 109 - 108. James Huw | Trail running and climate action: why the environmental issue should be a key topic of every discussion related to outdoor sports
James Huw is a trail runner, a science presenter, a geologist, astronomy and climate scientist from Wales, UK.
James’ mission is to communicate science, make science cool and accessible to people. With Kilian Jornet he founded the Athlete Climate Academy, a place to give outdoor athletes the background they need to discuss climate change and environmental issues with confidence.
In this episode we talk about the language of science and how science should be a leading force of our society. We discuss the needs of individual and collective action when it comes to climate change, the impact of trail running and the outdoor industry on the environment, advocating for systemic change, and some actions that we can easily implement as individuals to have a greater positive impact on climate change.
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Wed, 13 Dec 2023 - 59min - 108 - 107. Emkay Sullivan | Redefining plans, dealing with fatigue and understanding ourselves through running
Emkay Sullivan is a professional trail runner for Craft from Reno, Nevada, United States.
After a long and challenging year full of success but also some setbacks, Emkay decided to put off her final goal of 2023 and not run CIM, California International Marathon.
In this episode talk about the challenge of training, the difficulty of redefining goals and adjusting a plan, how toughness sometimes can be just admitting to ourselves how tired we are sometimes, and how we get to decide whether we can use failure or joy and positive emotions to fuel our motivation to run.
We also talk about Emkay’s experience as a coach, why she still finds it very beneficial to have a coach for herself, how she monitors her training and her athletes’ training, some things that she learned through her coaching experience.
Besides being a pro athlete, Emkay is also the co-host of the sub hub podcast, which is part of the freetrail network and has been a great voice in the trail space to further develop the sub ultra and mountain running interest.
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Wed, 06 Dec 2023 - 1h 09min - 107 - 106. Malen Osa | From the Basque Country, with a strong will to leave a mark in trail running
Malen Osa is a professional trail runner for Salomon living in Spain, in the Basque Country.
Malen is only 20 years old and has had a breakthrough season in 2023, placing fourth overall in the final ranking Golden Trail World Series, and top 5 at Dolomyths Run, Pikes Peak Ascent and Mammoth Trail Fest. She’s definitely one of the most interesting young talents in the sport, someone to keep an eye on over the next few years.
In this episode, we chat about her sports background and education, growing up in the basque country, dealing with great success and some setbacks, training, cross training and her passion for endurance sports.
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Wed, 29 Nov 2023 - 53min - 106 - 105. Emily Hawgood | The joy of running + training discussions: training data, athlete-coach relationship, strength training, altitude training
Emily Hawgood is a professional trail and ultra runner from Zimbabwe sponsored by Adidas Terrex. Emily is one of the most wonderful and cheerful people I know, not just in the sport of running, and she’s one of the strongest trail athletes in the world, especially in the 100k-100m distance. She’s also a running coach, a strength coach, she studied Exercise Science at the College of Idaho and she has a master’s degree in High Altitude Exercise Physiology from the University of Gunnison in Colorado.
In this conversation we talk about Emily and her very successful year, where she placed 5th at Western States and second at UTMB CCC, about how she’s treating herself during her off-season, how she handles the pressure of training and racing at a high level and a bunch of other topics. My favorite part of the conversation was when we dived deep into training, talking about our relationship with training data, with our respective coaches, some thoughts on strength training, strength training periodization and altitude training.
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Wed, 22 Nov 2023 - 1h 16min - 105 - 104. Mike McMonagle @shitinthewoods | Trail running media and photography, supporting women athletes and the community
Mike McMonagle is trail runner and photographer from Salt Lake City, United States. I met Mike, better known to the public with his instagram handle @shitinthewoods, last year at the world championship in Thailand, and I was inspired by his vibrant pictures showing the athletes in the peak of their efforts. I started following him and I discovered not only a great photographer, but also a great person for the sport, determined to make an impact in the sport of running by showcasing the elite athletes, giving more opportunities to women athletes, supporting independent races and the community that makes trail running special.
Besides running a lot with his camera, Mike won Grindstone 100m in Virginia and he will at the start of UTMB next year, with his wife and professional trail runner Leah Yingling.
In this episode we touch many topics about the current state of the sport of trail running, from the storytelling and how the media influence it, to photography, to inclusivity, equality and perception of the elite athletes by the public and fans.
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Wed, 15 Nov 2023 - 1h 09min - 104 - 103. Francesco Puppi | Racing my first long ultra and 2023 season recap
Francesco Puppi is a pro athlete for Nike and your Running Long podcast host.
Today I'm joined by Max and Moi, founder and co-founder of Vert.run, to talk about my 2023 season, including my first experience in a long ultra at Templiers (80km +3500m), where I placed second behind Jonathan Albon. We’re going to dive deep into how the race went, how I felt, what was my nutrition strategy, how I made the decision to do this race, what the training leading up to it was like. My 2023 season was not short of several ups and downs, but I’m incredibly happy and grateful for everything I got to experience.
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Wed, 08 Nov 2023 - 59min - 103 - 102. Lauren Klein | How and why you should think about improving your running economy
Laurein Klein is a trail and ultra runner with an undergraduate degree in athletic training, a master degree in exercise science and experience in the sports medicine field.
In this episode we talk about how biomechanics influences running economy and how we can improve our running economy through training to become better and more efficient runners.
As trail runners we are constantly striving to be better, run further, add more elevation gain, and cover more technical terrain. Besides our training and the workouts we're doing, it is also important to pay attention to how our body is moving while we run.
Any changes that allow us to use less energy while running allow us to improve our pace without increasing the amount of stress placed on our body.Follow Lauren on Instagram
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Wed, 01 Nov 2023 - 46min - 102 - 101. Gloria Giudici | Balancing having a full time job and being a high level athlete
Gloria Giudici - for me and for some of my friends Rita - is an amateur runner, Sportsshoes ambassador and full time worker who happens to be my girlfriend.
Rita - which is Gloria’s middle name, for those of you who are wondering about where it comes from, is one of the hardest working people I know and for sure a great source of strength and inspiration for me. She’s also a great runner and an accomplished athlete, with a long story in endurance sports. She started as a cyclist, until she transitioned to running when she was in her 20s, and later on to trail and mountain running. She’s competed in 4 world mountain and trail running championships, she’s placed 9th in a European championship, she’s won national titles, she’s placed top 30 in the new york city marathon and many more accomplishments.
We’re here to talk to Rita about two topics: how she balances having a full time job and being a high level athlete, and how she managed to deal with a big injury which kept her away from running for over 6 months. We’re going to give some advice and tips on how it’s possible to train at a high level while working 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, and what’s been particularly helpful for her when treating her hamstring injury and how she handled the return to running, with the aim to point out what’s useful and what’s not, so that as many athletes as possible can apply these principles and ideas to their own situations, regardless of their level or how fast or slow they can run.
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Wed, 25 Oct 2023 - 52min - 101 - 100. Coach Steve Krenn | Trail running, self confidence and mental health
Here at Vert, we run to have fun, feel good and learn something about ourselves in the process.
How can we build self confidence through trail running? How can we be ok with the fact that we all want to grow and progress, but we may still experience failures and setbacks? How can we feel empowered through trail running?
Today's guest is Steve Krenn, a Vert.run coach and trail runner from New York City
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Wed, 18 Oct 2023 - 51min - 100 - 099. Ida Nilsson | Looking back to an amazing career
Ida Nilsson is a professional trail runner for Craft, she's from Sweden but she currently lives in Norway.
Ida has been in the sport for a very very long time and she’s explored pretty much everything that there is to explore within the sport of running, from the track to cross country, from the roads to the trails. Together with Mimmi Kotka and Emelie Forsberg, she's the co-founder of Moonvalley, a plant based nutrition company for outdoor people.
I’m interviewing Ida during her off-season, after a long and successful 2023 where she was 5th at Black Canyon 100k, 1st at Canyons 100k, 7th at Western States and 1st at Ultravasan 90km. Together, we go through her long and successful career, retracing the main stages of her athletic development, her choices and her approach to the sport.
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Wed, 11 Oct 2023 - 1h 12min - 99 - 098. Golden Trail World Series 2023 | Stories from the Pikes Peak Ascent and the Mammoth Trail Fest
The Golden Trail World Series athletes and crew landed in the United States for the two final stages of the circuit and another adventure in the West of the United States.
We raced at the Pikes Peak Ascent in Manitou Springs (CO) where Remi Bonnet set a new course record, beating the legendary mark by Matt Carpenter that was set 30 years ago, and at the new Mammoth Trail Fest 26k in Mammoth Lakes (CA), organized by Tim Tollefson.
Besides the races, it was great to share some days together with other amazing athletes and interesting people, in some of the most beautiful places we've ever been to. This episode is an inside story told by the athletes on their experience at Pikes Peak and Mammoth, extending their reflections to their 2023 season.
I hope you enjoy it, and thanks to everyone who has contributed to record this episode!
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Wed, 04 Oct 2023 - 56min - 98 - 097. Abby Hall | Living the story I would want to read
Abby Hall is a professional trail runner from Flagstaff, USA, sponsored by Adidas Terrex.
I wanted to have Abby on the podcast in a very particular situation, which is not an easy moment for her. It's definitely a moment of struggle or at least not what people generally associate with the life of a professional athlete. Abby had a big injury earlier this year, she broke her leg while training a few months ago, and she also experienced some complications before having surgery and during her recovery. I think there's a lot of value in sharing our struggles and painful experiences, not just the victories and the positive moments, and this conversation was very very important to me and made me think a lot, so I want to thank Abby for opening up and being so transparent about her own experience through this difficult time.
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Wed, 27 Sep 2023 - 1h 15min - 97 - 096. Voices from the Vert.run community: Miguel Quinta | The journey to CCC
Miguel Quinta is a vert.run explore athlete from Portugal living in Spain.
Miguel started training with Vert in 2023 with the goal to finish CCC, a 100km race with 6000m around Mont Blanc. In this episode we talk about Miguel’s race, how it went and how he handled the difficulties that he faced; about his preparation (using a specific training plan for CCC designed by Petter Engdahl), the challenges of training while having a full time job and a family, and also his why: from why he runs, to why CCC was a special experience for him.
As you know, in this podcast we try to talk about trail running at 360°, giving voice to all the people who are part of its amazing community: from the pro athlete, to the coaches, to the middle of the pack runners. Miguel is certainly one of them, and it was very inspiring and very relatable to hear from him, which is why I’m sure you’ll enjoy this episode very much.
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Wed, 20 Sep 2023 - 59min - 96 - 095. Toni McCann - 2023 OCC Champion | Discover what you can do
Toni McCann is a professional trail runner from South Africa sponsored by Adidas Terrex
She's the 2023 OCC women champion, with an incredible race and performance - she ran 53km with 3100m of elevation in 5h18 min. In this episode we talk about her preparation, which was not short of challenges and setbacks, her race, her strategy and in general about her 2023 trail season.
We always find it very inspiring to hear from the champions of our sport, and we think that Toni is a pretty special person who will go very far in her athletic journey. Find out why!
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Wed, 13 Sep 2023 - 1h 09min - 95 - 094. Olya Amelina, health and performance coach | The game-changer power of daily routine for peak performance
If you're struggling around routines or to get back to your normal life after the summer and hopefully some time off for vacation, training or racing, then this episode is for you!
Olya Amelina is a health and performance coach helping people create daily routines around food, sleep, training and rest to enhance performance and achieve their goals in business, sport and daily life.
In this episode we talk about the power of routines and how they can help athletes maximise their performance and better handle their training. We get into details of how routines can affect nutrition, sleep, training, recovery and mindset; role of consistency; the routines vs motivation debate; how can routines help us balance work, life and training.
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Wed, 06 Sep 2023 - 1h 10min - 94 - 093 - Coach Daniel Rowland | Post race recovery, maintaining fitness, long term athletic development - reposted
After the summer season and especially after this week's UTMB, we figured it's important to relisten to this conversation with Coach Daniel Rowland on recovery and managing the time after a race.
It’s a very delicate period, both physically and mentally: we need to make sure that we've recovered well after a race and many months hard training, and we need to start laying the foundation of what is next.
In this conversation we talk about how the cardiovascular, muscular and hormonal systems recover at different times after a race, how we can maintain fitness, how long we should recover within the context of a racing season and with an eye to our long term athletic development.
Daniel Rowland is a trail and ultramarathon runner, a Vert.run coach and an expert in endurance science. Follow him on Twitter @dwrowland !
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Wed, 30 Aug 2023 - 58min - 93 - 092. Wilfredo Benitez | Nutrition during a trail race - Reposted
This episode focuses on the nutrition during a race or a long run: you will learn how to fuel during an endurance effort, what it makes sense to eat and what doesn’t, some strategies that will help you always stay on top of your nutrition and get the all energy that you need.
Wilfredo Benitez is a trail runner and nutritionist based in Portland, Oregon, and founder of On Pace Wellness, a company with the goal to help endurance athletes optimize their nutrition for training, racing and having a healthier lifestyle.
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Wed, 23 Aug 2023 - 33min - 92 - 091. Wilfredo Benitez | Nutrition before a trail race - Reposted
This episode focuses on nutrition before a race or a long run: you will learn how to fuel before an endurance effort, what it makes sense to eat and what doesn’t, some strategies that will help you get all the energy that you need, in order to achieve your goal.
Wilfredo Benitez is a trail runner and nutritionist based in Portland, Oregon, and founder of On Pace Wellness, a company with the goal to help endurance athletes optimize their nutrition for training, racing and having a healthier lifestyle.
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Wed, 16 Aug 2023 - 42min - 91 - 090. Wilfredo Benitez | Nutrition for health and performance - Reposted
On Pace Wellness is a company based in Portland, Oregon, which helps endurance athletes to optimize their nutrition for health, wellness and performance.
We chat with Wilfredo Benitez, head nutritionist at On Pace Wellness, USATF certified coach and trail runner, about the importance of a balanced nutrition for athletes.
How and what we eat have the potential to help make our goals a reality or to impede our training and performance, while potentially reducing our health at the same time. Nutrition plays a major role in the body's performance, including its health. It's important to understand some basics behind nutrition and help the body perform the best it can, whether that be athletically or just functionally.
We hope you can find some valuable information and tips for a more aware relationship with food and exercise.
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Wed, 09 Aug 2023 - 35min - 90 - 089. Eoin Everard | Training with heart rate zones
What are training zones? Why is it so important to run at the correct intensity?
With Eoin today we talk about training with heart rate zones, why running at the correct intensity is key and how to use heart rate zones in your daily training.
Eoin Everard is an Irish athlete, physiotherapist and pilates instructor with a PHD in biomechanics. Eoin has a background as an international runner with sub 4 minute mile and sub 14 minute 5K PRs, and he’s been very successful as a master athlete thanks to his approach to training and his methodology that has allowed him to stay away from injuries and maximize his training benefits.
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Wed, 02 Aug 2023 - 49min - 89 - 088. Max Keith | How to choose a trail running shoe for training and racing. A review
How has the shoe technology evolved during the past decade?
How do we choose a trail shoe, what should we pay attention to?
What are the most important features, depending on their use and purpose?
As trail runners, our most important piece of gear is a pair of running shoes, and there are now well over 200 trail running shoes on the market. That means there are shoes for every foot, every trail, and every terrain.
A chat to shed light and give some ideas on how to choose a trail shoe, with Max Keith, Vert.run co-founder, athlete and coach
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Tue, 25 Jul 2023 - 1h 11min - 88 - 087. Anna Gibson and Meika Beaudoin-Rousseau | The Trail Team, developing young talents in the sport, why trail running is the coolest thing ever!
Meikael Beaudoin Rousseauand Anna Gibson are two young American athletes and members of The Trail Team. The mission of The Trail Team is to independently support and develop rising athletes into the best professional trail runners in the world through mentorship, skill development, and media exposure.
With Meikael and Anna we will talk about their running background, how they got into trail running, what makes them excited about the sport, ideas to help the transition from college athletes to professional trail athletes, about how they currently see the state of the sport and about The Trail Team project.
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Wed, 19 Jul 2023 - 1h 08min - 87 - 086. Voices from the Vert.run community: Rosie Mitchell | Redefining toughness, surviving a crocodile attack, how trail and ultra running saved my life
Rosie Mitchell is a 63 year old lady from Zimbabwe currently living in Cape Town (South Africa).
Rosie is an ultra runner, graphic designer, Vert.run athlete and so much more. Rosie is one of our most loyal and dedicated athletes, she’s had an incredible and super inspiring personal story which you will discover in today’s conversation, and she’s currently training for a 100m race in the US.
In this episode, we will talk about her experience at the 2023 Comrades Marathon, the largest and oldest ultramarathon in the world, about what it means to be tough and how her concept of toughness has changed through running, about her incredible story of how she started running, how she got into ultra running and how she survived a terrible accident thanks to the fact that she’s an athlete.
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Wed, 12 Jul 2023 - 1h 28min - 86 - 085. Training for master athletes, improving as we age | with Eoin Everard, athlete and physio
Masters' running is usually framed as a process of decline and we rarely talk about understanding and optimizing masters runners’ potential in the same way that we do with younger runners.
This episode wants to bring a constructive approach to the topic, giving some tips and ideas to better manage our training as we get older.
Our guest is Eoin Everard, an Irish athlete, physiotherapist and pilates instructor with a PHD in biomechanics. Eoin has a background as an international runner with sub 4 minute mile and sub 14 minute 5K PRs, and he’s been very successful as a master athlete thanks to his approach to training and his methodology that has allowed him to stay away from injuries and maximize his training benefits.
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Wed, 05 Jul 2023 - 41min - 85 - 084. Stian Angermund | 2023 Short Trail World Champion + the most humble person I know on the trails
Stian Angermund is a professional trail runner for Asics living in Norway, and the 2023 (and 2022) short trail world champion.
Stian is one of the most humble, well known and respected athletes in the trail running world, and he managed to repeat himself in the last edition of the trail world championship in Innsbruck, after his gold medal in Thailand of last year.
In this episode, we chat about his approach to the race in Austria and his preparation leading up to it, about the world championship as an event, about his consistency at such a high level, about his professional running career and how it’s changed over the years, now that he’s also a husband, a dad and a 36 year old man with a lot of experience.
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Wed, 28 Jun 2023 - 1h 08min - 84 - 083. Kris Jones | In-depth analysis of the preparation and the race at the Trail World Championship - Innsbruck 2023
Kris Jones is a professional runner for Hoka coming from Wales.
Kris placed 8th at the 2023 world trail and mountain running championships Innsbruck 2023 in the short trail distance, and thanks to his result he helped the GB team take home the gold medal with his teammates Thomas Roach and Jonathan Albon.
One reason why I decided to invide Kris to the podcast was because he’s always been very open about his training and he recently posted a very good article on Substack about his preparation for the world championship race. He also shared some very interesting reflection on how he managed the race - which was a 45km and 3400m of elevation, which is approximately or 28 miles and 11 thousand feet of vert. Kris has an orienteering background and he’s also a really good road and track runner, with PRs of 13:45 in the 5000m, 28.23 in the 10000m, 63’ in the half marathon and 2:17 in the marathon.
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Wed, 21 Jun 2023 - 1h 14min - 83 - 082. Marco Altini | How to use Heart Rate Variability (HRV) to quantify stress, balance training and lifestyle and improve performance
Marco Altini is a data scientist, computer science engineer, high performance coach and founder of HRV4TRAINING.
In this episode we talk about heart rate variability or HRV. Measuring HRV is an effective way to capture our body’s response to stress and how it's responding and adapting to training and lifestyle stressors.
In this episode, we learn what heart rate variability is, how to measure it, how to interpret the data, how to use them to make conscious decisions related to our training and lifestyle. Most importantly, we approach the topic of training embracing its complexity, without giving easy answers, but trying to understand the context and reason behind some choices and patterns that we observe, and how technology can be a great tool to increase our knowledge and awareness.
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Wed, 14 Jun 2023 - 1h 06min - 82 - 081. Coach Lab with Steve Krenn | How to train for trail running while living in a city
Steve Krenn is a trail and ultra runner from New York City and a Vert.run coach.
In this episode we will try to answer the question "can I train for a mountain or trail race even though I live in a flat place? Even with limited access to the trails, you can still call yourself a trail runner and develop the specific adaptations required by running on trails.
With some adaptations and creativity, and maybe a little shift in your mindset, you can still train for trail running even if the closest thing to a trail is your local city park. The key point is to understand that running is not always enough. Core and strength training, cross training, stairs, jumps, the treadmill and the gym should be your friends.
Sure, living and training where big climbs abound would be ideal. But thanks to this episode you can discover more on how to become a successful trail runner even without the hills.
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Wed, 07 Jun 2023 - 1h 00min - 81 - 080. Adam Peterman | The quest for balance
Adam Peterman makes his second appearance on this podcast after his incredible 2022, when he became the Western States Champion and the Trail Running World Champion in the long distance event, in Thailand.
In this episode, we discussed how Adam’s life has changed after his incredible 2022, how he balances being a pro athlete with his other occupations, dealing with expectations and outside pressure, working with an agent, and we go into details of his training, how he picks his races, and his 2022 training data.
We recently learned that adam suffered from a sacral stress fracture during his build-up for western states and unfortunately he will have to review his plan for the summer. We wish him the best and quickest recovery, and we are certain that this experience will contribute to make him an even better athlete. All the best Adam!
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Wed, 31 May 2023 - 1h 24min - 80 - 079. Craig Thornley, Western States race director | Western States, the growth of the sport, the culture and spirit of ultra running
Craig Thornley is the race director of Western States.
Western States is the oldest 100 mile race in America and one of the ultimate endurance challenges in the world, and Craig has been race director of the race since 2013. In this episode we talk about the history of the race, how he got involved, his work as a race director, and how he and the WS board are trying to evolve and at the same time preserve the spirit and special atmosphere of this competition, in the context of the fast changing and growing landscape of trail and ultra running.
We also talk about the history of the event in relation to the birth of ultra running, its spirit and culture and why it’s important to take care of it. If you deeply care about the sport, this episode is for you.
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Wed, 24 May 2023 - 1h 15min - 79 - 078. Voices from the Vert.run community: Leo Pershall | Running and self identity, setbacks and growth, sailing across the world and finding the joy of running.
Leo Pershall is a Vert.run athlete and ambassador from California.
Leo has an incredible story in endurance sports, and he went from being an ultra cyclist, to sailing around the world during the pandemic, to becoming a smoker and quitting any kind of physical activity, to finding the love for running again. This year, Leo was signed up to Black Canyon 100k and he felt very well prepared, but he ended up dropping out for injury and questioning his value as an athlete and his life choices. He took a few weeks to reset and get healthy again, and he managed to bounce back with a very strong finish at Lake Sonoma 50 miler.
This is an inspiring story of setbacks and success, and a great example that progress is almost never linear. We are grateful to Leo for being so open about his struggles and what he went through, physically and mentally, over the past few months.
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Wed, 17 May 2023 - 1h 03min - 78 - 077. Rachel Drake | Running and pregnancy, postpartum and return to running, dealing with injuries and learning opportunities
Rachel Drake is a professional trail runner sponsored by Nike from Portland, Oregon.
In this episode we talk about Rachel’s experience with postpartum return to running, how she’s dealing with a bone injury that she picked up during her post pregnancy, the challenges of being a mom and training as a professional athlete. This is a great episode if you want to learn more about pregnancy and running, what’s important to pay attention to, what could be done to help more mothers stay healthy and enjoy running while breastfeeding and raising a child.
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Wed, 10 May 2023 - 1h 04min - 77 - 076. Coach Lab with Max Keith - Cross training: how to incorporate it into your training
In this episode of Coach Lab we talk about cross training and how to incorporate it into your preparation.
As runners, we tend to focus very much on running and neglect what is a fundamental part of training. Max and Francesco discuss the different types of cross training, their benefits and purposes, when you should you include cross training into your training periodization, and some ideas to have fun and make the most out of it.
Max Keith is a trail and ultra runner from Santiago, Chile, Vert.run's co-founder and coach.
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Wed, 03 May 2023 - 57min - 76 - 075. Vert.run founders | Our story: making trail running accessible to everybody, everywhere
This is the story of how Vert.run came to life and what it has become today, from the voices of its founders: Moisés Jimenez, Max Keith and Kirsten Kortebein.
Vert is a project born out of friendship, passion and love for the trails. From South America to the world, from an excel spreadsheet to hundreds of training plan and a smart training app, from a handful of people to thousands of beginners and experienced athletes, Vert has come a long way. Our most recent milestones have been the partnerships with the UTMB World Series and Skyrunning World Series.
We’re dreaming big and working hard to live up to our mission, to make trail running accessible to everybody everywhere, inspiring people and giving them knowledge and guidance to have the best possible experience out on the trails.
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Wed, 26 Apr 2023 - 1h 28min - 75 - 074. Ruth Croft, the Kiwi champion - Reposted
Ruth Croft is a Kiwi pro trail runner sponsored by Adidas Terrex.
We’re very happy to announce another Vert.run training plan by Ruth: a specific 16 week program for OCC, a race that she has won twice, in 2018 and 2019 . Sign up today on our website or in the Vert.run app!
Ruth is coming from a great 2022 where she won Western states and placed second at Festival des Templiers. This was a very fun conversation and Ruth always has a lot of interesting things to share. Personally, I like her approach to running on any surface and any distance, which has made her the world class athlete that she is.
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Wed, 19 Apr 2023 - 58min - 74 - 073. Petter Engdahl, 2022 CCC champion - Reposted
Petter Engdahl is a Swedish trail runner for Adidas Terrex and the 2022 CCC champion. We’re very happy to announce our official partnership with Petter, who designed a specific training program for CCC. Sign up today on our website or in the Vert.run app!
Petter was the first athlete to ever go under the 10h mark for the 100km, +6150m race from Courmayur to Chamonix around Mont Blanc.
In this episode we talk about Petter's preparation, fears and expectations before the race; his strategy, nutrition, gear and much more during the race. In doing so, Petter shares a lot of good information and tips on how to perfectly execute a 100km trail race!
We also discuss about Petter's athletic career in skiing and trail running, his studies in industrial design at the Trondheim university, and what it means for him to be part of the Adidas Terrex team.
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Wed, 12 Apr 2023 - 1h 10min - 73 - 072. Coach Lab with Daniel Rowland | Managing the post race recovery, maintaining fitness, setting the foundations for long term athletic development
In this episode of Coach Lab we talk about recovery and managing the time after a race.
It’s a very delicate period, both physically and mentally: to make sure you recover well after completing a preparation and to lay the foundation of what is next. We talk about how the cardiovascular, muscular and hormonal systems recover, how we can maintain fitness, how long we should recover in the context of a racing season and with an eye to our long term athletic development.
Daniel Rowland is a trail and ultramarathon runner, a Vert.run coach and an expert in endurance science. Follow him on Twitter @dwrowland !
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Wed, 05 Apr 2023 - 58min - 72 - 071. Parker Farabee | How to prevent and deal with injuries; how to manage pain, training load and recovery
Parker Farabee is a physical therapist from Portland, Oregon, specialized in neurologic rehabilitation and treatment.
In this episode we talk about running related injuries, the most common causes, how to deal with them and how to prevent them. We also talk about the importance of strength training both for injury prevention and for performance. What I liked about this episode is its holistic approach, where running is not just a mere physical activity but a fundamental component of our health and wellbeing.
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Wed, 29 Mar 2023 - 56min - 71 - 070. Alex Varner | The Dipsea Race: the oldest trail race in America
First run in 1905, The Dipsea Race is the oldest trail race in America.
It is run every year on the second Sunday in June. The scenic 7.4 mile course from Mill Valley to Stinson Beach in Marin County, CA, is considered to be one of the most beautiful courses in the world. The stairs and steep trails make it a grueling and treacherous race. And its unique handicapping system has made winners of men and women of all ages.
Without races like Dipsea, the sport of trail running may be different from how we know it today, and we feel like it's super important to preserve these historic event for the present and future of our sport.
Alex Varner - the Dipsea legend - has run it every year, except one, since 2003. In this interview with Kirsten Kortebein (the host of our podcast for one day!) he walks us through the Dipsea course, experience and vibe.
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Wed, 22 Mar 2023 - 38min - 70 - 069. Thomas Janichon, co-founder of Team Sidas Matryx | Building and developing a pro trail running team
Thomas Janichon is a 28 year old trail runner from France and, with Simon Gossellin, he's the co-founder of Team Sidas Matryx.
Thomas is developing an elite professional team with an approach that is quite unusual in the sport of trail running, usually based on shoe companies sponsoring athletes. His project is actually more similar to the approach of a cycling team: Team Sidas matryx is an independent reality that operates thanks to the support of different partners, building an ecosystem around the athletes and answering their needs at 360°.
It was founded in 2019 and it’s kept growing and expanding over the years, being now one of the most established and competitive trail running teams in the world, especially in the shorter distances. The main aspect of this project is that it’s focused on the athletes, meaning that they are at the center of the attention, and everything is built around them in order to perform and grow as professionals and people.
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Wed, 15 Mar 2023 - 1h 07min - 69 - 068. Gina Lucrezi, founder of Trail Sisters | Increasing women's participation and opportunities in trail running
Gina Lucrezi is a trail runner from Colorado, a women's right advocate and the founder of Trail Sisters, an American based organization with the mission to increase women’s participation and opportunities in trail running through inspiration, education and empowerment.
In this episode we talk about how Gina started this project, how it’s grown over the years, and what impact Trail Sisters has had on the sport of trail and ultra running. We will also talk about women’s participation in trail running, the culture of the still predominantly white and male outdoor sport community, the initiatives to encourage women’s participation in trail running and how some big race organizations are taking care of these issues.
This is a great conversation about how the general culture and society affects the way people see and approach trail running and viceversa, how trail running can have a positive influence on our society.
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Wed, 08 Mar 2023 - 1h 13min - 68 - 067. Coach Lab with Daniel Rowland | How to manage, handle and execute training
We've set our goals for the season and the strategy - or training plan - in order to achieve them. It's now time to train!
How can we better handle and execute our training plan? How can se make informed decisions on whether we should take a rest day or not, whether we're running too much or too hard, what should we do if life gets in the way and we need to skip one or two sessions? What should we prioritize and what are the things that matter the most when we are out there trying to achieve a training session?
How do we know when and if we should change plans and deviate from the program?
We like to look at training in a holistic way, and there's always a certain level of independence when it comes to managing your training. Communication with your coach is key, and so are many other areas of your life that are not directly related to training, but have an impact on it: nutrition, sleep, recovery, work and family life.
These are the main topics of discussion of this episode in collaboration with Daniel Rowland, a Vert.run coach and an accomplished endurance athlete.
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Wed, 01 Mar 2023 - 1h 07min - 67 - 066. Anthony Felber | Team Sidas-Matryx, racing in the Golden Trail World Series, learning and growing as an athlete
Anthony Felber is a French pro trail athlete running for Team Sidas Matryx.
Anthony is very young but he’s already established himself as one of the best trail runners in the world, especially in the short distances. In 2022, he took 9th place overall in the Golden Trail World Series, he placed 7th at Pikes Peak Ascent and 5th at Flagstaff Skypeaks, he won Eiger Ultra Trail 50k and he ran 2:37 at Sierre-Zinal.
In this episode will learn more from him and about team Sidas Matryx, a very interesting French reality that develops young talents in trail and mountain running. We will talk about the Golden Trail World Series, how Anthony has gradually improved over the years, how he combines skimo and running over the winter, his relationship with his coach, his studies in architecture, his passion for cooking and much more.
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Wed, 22 Feb 2023 - 54min - 66 - 065. Kaytlyn Gerbin | The Pro Trail Runners Association & going all in as a pro athlete
Kaytlyn Gerbin is a professional trail runner sponsored by North Face living in Washington, United States.
Kaytlyn has established herself as one of the best endurance athletes in the world: she’s been on the podium of two of the most iconic and competitive ultra trail races in the world - Western States in 2017 and UTMB in 2022 - and she’s a true lover of the sport, of the mountains and the wild spaces of the Pacific North West.
After the pandemic, Kaytlyn decided to take a break from her job as a scientist to fully focus on running professionally, and now she’s not only active as a pro athlete but she also has a strong voice inside the trail running community. She’s part of the board of the Pro Trail Runners Association - a non profit association with the mission to help the athletes share their opinions and needs, and be an active part in shaping the future of our sport.
In this episode, we talk about her growth as an athlete, her decision to leave her job as a scientist, the differences that we see between trail running in the US and in Europe, her involvement in the pro trail runners association, its idea and mission and how she’s contributing to the project.
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Wed, 15 Feb 2023 - 1h 23min - 65 - 064. Thomas Krejci | Founder of Run2gether, African athletes coming to the trails
Thomas Krejci is the founder of Run2gether, an Austrian road and trail running team supported by On Running.
The motto "Run2gether" does not only refer to just running training together. The team is made up by European and Kenyan runners who want to learn from each other, support each other, achieve goals together and benefit from each other on different levels. Run2gether is more than just a running team, it is also active with many educational and humanitarian projects in different villages in Kenya and it organizes training camps in Austria and Kenya.
Two of the strongest mountain runners in the world are part of this team: the Mountain Running World Cup 2022 winners Joyce Njeru and the world uphill champion Patrick Kipngeno. Some athletes, like Geoffrey Ndungu (a 2:08 marathoner) are also competing in the Golden Trail World Series.
Run2gether is a reality not just within the sport of trail running, and is a great example of how through sport we can have a much broader impact on our society.
Discover more about the team.
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Wed, 08 Feb 2023 - 1h 09min - 64 - 063. Coach Lab with Daniel Rowland | From planning to practice: how to set up your training week
How do we go from setting our goals for the season to actually setting up a plan or a strategy in order to achieve them?
This is the main topic of this episode with coach Daniel Rowland, a trail and ultramarathon runner and Vert.run coach, one of the most interesting Twitter profiles I follow and a great expert in endurance science.
We will talk about the concept of microcycle vs macrocycle, what should be included and how long it should be; how to set up your microcycle, the key elements, matching the focus of the macrocycle and the choice and order of the sessions; how to monitor your training load and the key metrics for it. Finally, we will give a few practical examples to better understand how your typical microcycle (which often coincides with your training week) could look like.
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Wed, 01 Feb 2023 - 57min - 63 - 062. Jim Walmsley | The journey is the destination
Jim Walmsley is a professional trail runner from the United States running for Hoka.
He's one of the absolute GOATS of the sport, an athlete that should need no introduction. I’m lucky enough to be able to call Jim a friend, and I’ve shared with him some of the best racing moments of my career.
In his personal quest to win UTMB, and most importantly chasing the best version of himself in the process, Jim has moved to Beaufort, a small village in the french alps where he’s currently training and living. I’ve reached out to him to see how he’s doing, how his training has changed over the past few years, how some decisions and defining moments have changed the course of his career, what are some of the goals and objectives he wishes to achieve in 2023 and in future years.
Check out the YouTube series Walmsley by Wahoo
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Wed, 25 Jan 2023 - 1h 36min - 62 - 061. Greg Vollet | Inside the Golden Trail World Series: taking the sport of trail running to the next level
Greg Vollet is the creator and director of the Golden Trail World Series, a circuit that exists to celebrate and grow the sport of trail running to the highest level. Zegama, Sierre-Zinal, Mont Blanc Marathon and Pikes Peak are just some of the most iconic events that are part of this global series, races that any trail runner from all over the world dreams of running at least once in his lifetime.
Thanks to the Golden Trail Series, the sport of trail running has grown and become more professional, allowing many athletes to make a living from it, broadcasting the races, inspiring and celebrating the fans.
In this episode, we talk about how the concept of this series was born, what opportunities the athletes have to get involved, what's behind the races and the live coverage, how the 2022 series went and some anticipations for 2023.
Check out the new TV Series CHASING DREAMS
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Wed, 18 Jan 2023 - 1h 02min - 61 - 060. Coach Lab with Daniel Rowland | How to plan your trail running season - part 2
This is the second part of "How to plan your trail running season" with Daniel Rowland, a trail and ultramarathon runner and Vert.run coach, one of the most interesting Twitter profiles I follow and a great expert in endurance science.
After talking about how to choose your goal races or objectives, understanding your starting point and what are the key factors in planning the season, this episode will cover:
1) training phases and elements in the preparation
2) accounting for the specificity of your goals
3) philosophy and approach to training
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Wed, 11 Jan 2023 - 53min - 60 - 059. Coach Lab with Daniel Rowland | How to plan your trail running season - part 1
It's easy to get excited about races and goals, but how much can we really handle until it's not sustainable anymore? How many races is it realistic to plan? What is a good way to plan the season in order to perform well, recover enough and have fun? Should every athlete have an off season? What should our periodization look like?
Just a few of the questions that we will discuss with Daniel Rowland, a trail and ultramarathon runner and Vert.run coach, one of the most interesting Twitter profiles I follow and a great expert in endurance science. In the first part of this conversation, we will cover in particular:
1) choosing goal races or objectives
2) what is your starting point right now?
3) key factors in planning the season
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Wed, 04 Jan 2023 - 46min - 59 - 058. Best of 2022 | Trail running in review with Max Keith
2022 was a memorable year for many reasons. We wanted to close it with an in-depth review of what happened inside the sport of trail and ultra running over the past 12 months.
Some topics that we covered:
top performances in trail and ultra running during 2022 best/most consistent athletes of 2022 most exciting races to follow 2022 rising stars and greatest comebacks calendars: an overview of the Golden Trail Series, UTMB World Series, Skyrunning, World Mountain Running Cup for 2023 what happened inside and outside VertEnjoy!
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Thu, 22 Dec 2022 - 1h 21min
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