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2026
A Valley Built on Sport Has Had Enough of It
4 September 2026
Laz Does Not Know How to Save UTMB
4 September 2026
What Stays After This Year’s UTMB?
1 September 2026
The Explosion of Data
1 September 2026
The Numbers of UTMB 2026
29 August 2026
Elites Are Dropping Like Flies
25 August 2026
Putting the Ambushing Brands on Notice
21 August 2026
Highlights from UTMB’s Press Kit for the 2026 World Series Finals
21 August 2026
Trail Different
9 August 2026
The Shoes on the Podium at Beast
6 August 2026
It’s Still a Participation Sport
23 July 2026
What to Do About the Casual, but Competitive Trail Runner Who Dopes?
21 July 2026
Between a Hardrock and a Hard Place
16 July 2026
O Livestream, Where Art Thou?
15 July 2026
A Conflicting Sense of Place at Western States
3 July 2026
What is TrailCon?
1 July 2026
TrailCon Wrap-up Incoming
25 June 2026
Europe is Racing Too This Month
18 June 2026
It’s Tahoe Time – yeehaw!
15 June 2026
Tudor’s Entry into Trail from a Watch Enthusiast Perspective – My Kid
9 June 2026
UTMB’s 2025 CSR Report
5 June 2026
Fantastic 4 for Electric Cable Car
1 June 2026
The Tickers are Coming
25 May 2026
GTWS Happens And No One Watches
25 May 2026
Are we Being Punked?
20 May 2026
Cocodona – What it is and what it isn’t (yet)
11 May 2026
A Lot of Wishcasting, Very Little Business
8 May 2026
“Where Do We Draw the Line?”
7 May 2026
Volunteers at Big Races
22 April 2026
Nike Ain’t Tolerated
17 April 2026
ACG’s Home Field Advantage at Gorge Waterfalls
14 April 2026
UTMB’s Broadcasting Partnerships
26 March 2026
Safety Pins
22 March 2026
Snowdonia Route and Event Changes
5 March 2026
Mile & Stone on the Future of the Golden Trail World Series
18 February 2026
Revisiting the Run.fund Crowdfunding Concept
17 February 2026
Pacers aren’t the Issue at WSER, the Never-ending Increase in Crew Size is
12 February 2026
As Adidas Zigs Nike Zags
31 January 2026
Short ACG Gear Review
10 January 2026
The Electric Cable Car Predictions (and Hopes) for 2026
8 January 2026
RE/Run 2025 – December
6 January 2026
RE/Run 2025 – November
6 January 2026
RE/Run 2025 – October
6 January 2026
RE/Run 2025 – September
2 January 2026
RE/Run 2025 – August
2 January 2026
RE/Run 2025 – July
2 January 2026
2025
Re/Run 2025 – June
26 December 2025
RE/Run 2025 – May
23 December 2025
RE/Run 2025 – April
23 December 2025
Re/Run 2025 – March
9 December 2025
My TRE 2025
7 December 2025
Re/Run 2025 – February
6 December 2025
UTMB Launches Redesigned Runner’s Dashboard, and “MyUTMB+”
5 December 2025
TRE (The Running Event) – What am I Looking For, and Why am I Going
1 December 2025
Re/RUN 2025 – January
23 November 2025
On Substack Now
23 November 2025
2026 Entry Fees
17 November 2025
On Freetrail Tim and Dylan Ponder the Future of Trail Running – It Surprisingly Includes Their Events
16 November 2025
RE/RUN 2025 – The Year In Review
11 November 2025
An Ode to Two of my Favorite and Simple Things in the World
27 October 2025
WMTRC’25 – A Few Final Thoughts
4 October 2025
Thoughts on This Year’s UTMB Week
3 September 2025
Support or No Support?
16 August 2025
When Coaches Fight
16 July 2025
Lavaredo Ultra Trail 120K – My Race Report, of Sorts
9 July 2025
The Difference Between F1 and Tour de France, And What That Means For Trail Running
9 July 2025
Fire and Ice at Western States
7 July 2025
UTMB Updates Mobility Plan For Finals In Chamonix
12 June 2025
Linking to Local News Articles
8 June 2025
Happy Anniversary ye olde Electric Cable Car
3 June 2025
Fun with UTMB World Series Event Names
23 May 2025
Unofficial UTMB World Series Leaderboard
21 May 2025
On Bad Weather DNFs
10 May 2025
Cocodona 250 Vs. Tor de Géants
7 May 2025
What To Do With ‘Outside’?
9 April 2025
On Land Use Permits for Races
5 April 2025
Trail Running Films – So Hot Right Now
4 April 2025
FKT Book Misses Crowdfunding Goal
25 March 2025
The Power of the Golden Ticket
4 March 2025
From Kilian to Zara
20 February 2025
UTMB 2025 Lottery Numbers and Observations
17 February 2025
Those Four Years, the Last Time Around
22 January 2025
Trail Running After Instagram
12 January 2025
What The TROY (And UROY) Awards Get Wrong
4 January 2025
2025 Predictions For Our Sport
1 January 2025
2024
RE:RUN 2024 – December
30 December 2024
RE:RUN 2024 – November
29 December 2024
RE:RUN 2024 – October
28 December 2024
RE:RUN 2024 – September
27 December 2024
RE:RUN 2024 – August
26 December 2024
RE:RUN 2024 – July
21 December 2024
RE:RUN 2024 – June
16 December 2024
RE:RUN 2024 – May
13 December 2024
RE:RUN 2024 – April
9 December 2024
RE:RUN 2024 – March
4 December 2024
RE:RUN 2024 – February
1 December 2024
RE:RUN 2024 – January
27 November 2024
RE:RUN 2024 – The Year In Review
26 November 2024
No More “Substack-ing”
21 November 2024
Who Says Running is Like Skateboarding?
20 November 2024
The End of Modern Democracy
7 November 2024
Trail Running’s Award Season is About to Kick of
4 November 2024
At War With Fascists, Again
29 October 2024
Sitewide Search with DuckDuckGo
21 October 2024
The Value of Race Photography
8 October 2024
Yes, I Ran Ultra Trail Whistler
4 October 2024
Observations from the UTMB Finals 2024 in Chamonix
14 September 2024
How Did My Singletrack Guests Do At UTMB 2024?
4 September 2024
Taking Advantage of What UTMB Has Created
3 September 2024
UTMB, You Know What You Should Do?
3 September 2024
Jamil Coury is the Most Powerful Person in Trail Running
17 July 2024
The Shared Experience of Fan Culture
15 June 2024
Two Years of Electric Cable Car
6 June 2024
Capital City Marathon
20 May 2024
Freetrail announces ‘TrailCon’
16 May 2024
A New Fastest Known Time
16 May 2024
Some Observations on the 2024 Western States Entry List
20 February 2024
‘That Old ITRA System Was Better’
31 January 2024
Words Do Matter
25 January 2024
Assorted Comments From Trail Dignitaries on Today’s UTMB Statement
24 January 2024
Zach and Kilian Plan on Skipping UTMB
10 January 2024
A Global Trail Race Series Calendar
1 January 2024
2023
Comparing Entry Fees for UMTB World Series Events in North America
8 December 2023
Trailmix on Salomon’s Golden Trail Series
2 December 2023
World Trail Majors – a Few Initial Thoughts
13 November 2023
What is Actually Happening Over in the Triathlon World?
9 November 2023
No One Knows How the UTMB Stones Actually Work
8 November 2023
UTMB is Not a Monopoly
29 October 2023
Ultra Trail Whistler Speculations
26 October 2023
PTRA Calls out UTMB for Dacia Partnership
4 October 2023
How did the Athlete Sponsors Fair at UTMB?
4 September 2023
UTMB 2023 Gender Splits and Other Fun
1 September 2023
Do We Need More Shoe Reviews?
23 August 2023
Addendum to my Conversation with Frédéric Lénart on Singletrack
31 July 2023
One Year In
5 June 2023
How Important is the Hydration Vest for Brands?
31 May 2023
Innsbruck to Host the World
30 May 2023
UTMB’s Polettis in Auburn
2 May 2023
Changing the Game, for What?
24 March 2023
Sticking it to the (Iron)man
5 January 2023
2022
World Mountain and Trail Running Championships
5 November 2022
UTMB in a Manageable Spreadsheet
3 October 2022
Trail Racing’s Achilles Heel
23 September 2022
How to get into UTMB (for the rest of us)
6 September 2022
Mont Blanc is Running’s El Capitan
30 August 2022
Cushman Six
4 August 2022
Hardrock, Still Running
16 July 2022
Biggest Race Weekend of the Year
27 June 2022
Shoes and Athletes
16 June 2022
Electric Cable Car?
1 June 2022

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