Alles Laufbar’s Outstanding Trail Performances

German trail magazine ‘Alles Laufbar’ releases their version of trail running awards for 2025, the “11 Outstanding Trail Performances 2025” (auto translated via Safari browser tool):

An eventful trail running year is coming to an end. We have compiled the 11 most outstanding achievements of the year for you. It’s not just about race results – from world records in the vertical kilometer to months of FKTs in New Zealand to impressive wins in the best-run races of the year.

This one, in so many ways, is what I had been talking about in my screed from the beginning of the year about what awards for trail running should be. I had just brought this back up in my RE/RUN – January article as well. What sticks out to me is that focus on individual performances rather than the direct competition that’s so hard to measure in our sport. It gives the fans of our sport (that’s us!) a chance to reflect and celebrate, while still challenging us to think and compare and see if we’d have picked differently. I like it.