Re/Run 2025 – February

This article is part of Electric Cable Car’s RE/RUN 2025 – The Year in Review.
This was February 2026 in our world of trail running and mountain culture.

In February things got dark in America. Shortly after the begin of Trump’s second presidency Musk arrived with a chain saw and a wrecking ball and laid off thousands of National Park and Forest Service workers. DOGE failed spectacularly and even while the worst fears didn’t come to pass it did signal the new reality in America. Uncertainty, fear, confusion, and an upside down flag on El Cap.

Sticking to the topic of politics in the weirdest possible way, this month I posted about Katy Perry wearing a running vest on stage ahead of her trip to “sort of” space. Now months later she’s dating Former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and is seen with the Former Prime Minister of Japan together. Anyhoo… politics.. and hydration vests… going places.

In the more dumb news department: Outside (formerly known as “magazine”) labels itself as Outside Interactive, lays off most of their editorial staff and buys up more tech properties.

Back to our sport: 2025 will be the year the elites are weighing their worth, wondering about doping and rethinking their contracts. No surprise here as the previous social media strategies are increasingly failing and tariffs are kicking brands in the nuts.

Luckily we had burrito runs, and that’s what we focused on in the early part of 2025. That and a much talked about ‘state of trail running report‘ which I linked to and has since become one of the most visited posts for Electric Cable Car all year. Although, now that I come to think of it… can anyone actually remember any important factoid out of this report? Or do we all just reference this report in the same breath as “growth” and “business”?

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This post is part of Electric Cable Car’s RE/RUN 2025 – The Year in Review. I’ll be dropping the March edition in the coming days. To catch up on all of them visit Re/Run.