RE/Run 2025 – May

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

I’m told to not get too political on here if I want to reach a global audience… not everyone’s affected or interested in what the orange Mad King is doing on a daily basis. But, but, but, hear me out, these tariffs are fucking everyone over more than we want to admit. Zoë Rom takes a stab for iRunFar on what this all means and Norda’s forced to temporarily halt shipments into the US. Not great, and it’s not getting better as the year goes on.

Martin Cox from VO2max Coaching took Koop AI for a spin and has thoughts – thanks for that, I was not going to try it.

In May The Grand Teton FKT finally is on trial, and oh boy did it turn out to be a grand waste of time and money.

May also sees the return of the media phenomenon that is Cocodona, and we get to continue the age old argument if “an European thing”: in this case Tor de Géants or “an American thing”: in this case Cocodona is bigger, better, faster, and more. What a fun way to spend a week in the small world of trail media.

Finally, we’re reminded of what’s really at stake and what we should be paying more attention to. The town of ‘Blatten’ in Switzerland in the Lötschental gets completely buried by a major glacier break induced by the inevitable climate change. And while one genuine feels horrible for the folks living in the valley I saw a note floating around online that points to the voting history of the inhabitants who by a large percentage voted against climate measures in recent elections. What a sad and pointed visual for the world we’re living in right now.

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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 June edition in the coming days. To catch up on all of them visit RE/Run.