RE/Run 2025 – September

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

Wheeee, September, what a month. The afterglow of UTMB inspires a million things to happen at the same time. Directly or indirectly.

First off, everyone has thoughts about UTMB and what it all means. What an incredible sport we’re in, that we don’t just partake, but engage with it and think about what it all means. Love!

Matt Walsh, Brian Metzler, Seth Lareau, Mile and Stone, Chris Z, Liam Fireball, and yours truly, of course all have thoughts on the annual carnival in Chamonix. But some of the best writing of the year comes from 2nd at UTMB this year, Ben Dhiman – a proper race report.

This side of the pond things stay crazy. Michelino Sunseri is found guilty for cutting a switchback – we know how this ends. Aravaipa continues their expansion march across the US. And fucking ICE arrest firefighters at the Bear Gulch fire.

And if all of this wouldn’t be enough, we have a huge doping case rocking the trail running world.

A bit of levity with a bunch of brand marketing fails before we head into the World Trail and Mountain Running Championships:

• Mammut and their “not a streetwear promo”.
• Arcteryx and their fireworks display in the Himalayas.
• Hüma’s gel that looks like the much-hated Awesome Sauce from Spring.

I leave you with the other amazing blog post of the year: Dakota Jones sharing his experience trying to keep up with Kilian somewhere high in the mountains of Colorado.

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