RE/Run 2025 – December

This article is part of Electric Cable Car’s RE/RUN 2025 – The Year in Review.
This was December 2025 in our world of trail running and mountain culture.

After missing it last year (2024), I went back to TRE, with lots of hopes, and a sore toe (broke it doing yard work – a story for another day). Did I enjoy going? Yes, was a good party for the industry. Is there lots to see? Yes. Do lots of people have lots of opinions and views on it. Also yes. Is the event at an awkward time, right during the holidays, also yes.

UTMB gears up for their Finals registration (pushed out a bit into the new year) and launches a redesigned dashboard that feels polished, but also gives “airline mile reward program” vibes – which is a dangerous look for trail running only big corporation.

ACG and Broken Arrow steal the moment with their massive partnership announcement, which have fans of Nike frothing at the mouth with the possibility of what could become if Nike that them entering the trail space for real this time.

And finally (in personal news) the year ends of with two massive earthquakes (good ones!) that I absolutely did not have on my bingo card for 2025:

The Skyrunner World Series announces their calendar of events for 2026 and includes Beast of Big Creek as only North American event.

The organization behind the Trail Running Film Festival is sunsetting leaving the project in my hands (which is sort of already had been these last 3+ years) and in my ownership (which it definitely hadn’t been this past 3+ years). There’s more to say about all this, but this is a recap of 2025, and the official announcement didn’t drop until 2026. I am just mentioning it here, as this absolutely owned my these past few weeks.

After having hoped to sort of slide toward the end of the year in a somewhat a chill way (what fool I am), maybe do some baking, and definitely drinking lots of mulled wine, I have been spending the last few weeks working on massive structural, behind the scenes business transitions. And let’s be clear, I want this. This is positive. I am here for it. But also what is that emoji with the red face and the tongue out in exhaustion? That! Happy New Year! 2026 is going to be bonkers.

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This post is part of Electric Cable Car’s RE/Run 2025 – The Year in Review. To catch up on at the full year visit RE/Run.