Ken’s Ultra Minute on Cocodona

Ken Seals writes The Ultra Minute, a weekly newsletter delivering race results and more from the ultra world:

The Ultra Minute isn’t just another results roundup. Every Tuesday, I deliver the latest highlights, key race results, notable stories, and must-read links. This isn’t just a news digest either—it’s a curated mix of the narratives and voices shaping trail and ultra running today.

Great one-stop way to stay up to date and get a quick overview of what’s going on in our world of trail and ultra running. Ken just turned on paid subscription. Sign up for free, read for a couple of weeks and you’ll want to be a subscriber. Only downside is it’s on Substack… but what are you gonna do, right?

In this week’s edition which was just published Ken has a great summary of the Cocodona 250 media coverage:

Huge props to Mountain Outpost and the rest of the livestream crew, who made the event feel like the ultimate ultra-community gathering. Last year, I believe the peak viewership for the Cocodona stream was around 6,500. This year? I personally saw over 12,000 tuned in live as Dan Green jogged toward history. (Edit: Jamil Coury sent me the hard data: a peak of 13.7k concurrent viewers!) And according to Corinne Shalvoyon Instagram, they’ve already had 130k views of stream 1. The sport is growing. And Cocodona is something truly special.

These are impressive numbers, I heard that their followers on Youtube grew so fast that they got flagged as a spam account for a few hours.