RE/Run 2025 – November

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

As the weather turns cold and the industry’s eyes turn toward the holidays the first voices are being shared that clearly mention the realities of Trump’s moronic tariffs and the impact on the outdoor industry. This will be something we will be hearing a lot more about in 2026. Not sure yet if there will be a “gloves off moment”. What’s more likely is a “pathetic cry for help” – that’ll be my take. But either way, after earlier in the year the motivational LinkedIn posters were still all about considering the possible opportunities, as the year progresses folks more and more realized that this all kind of fucked up.

And speaking of “fucked up”, in a weird upside moment the Grand Teton FKT lawsuit gets resolved by Trump ACTUALLY PARDONING Michelino Sunseri. I have no words for this development, just a whole podcast full of them with lawyer, filmmaker and friend of Michelino, Alex Rienzie.

And after a fairly quiet year for UTMB their acquisition of the beloved Zugspitz Ultra Trail event in Garmisch Partenkirchen the German trail media went all out yelling “monopoly”. How do you explain in German what a monopoly is?

The media noise coming from Germany about this aforementioned move by UTMB invites Dylan Bowman and Tim Tollefsen to record an episode of Freetrail in which they lament the media’s focus on “only the big races” without really considering that they’ve (maybe more so than anyone else in the trail media space) are responsible for exactly this phenomenon, or problem as they call it.

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