10 Things I Love About Trail Running Right Now (Spring 2026) — Borderlands Trail and Ultra Running

Trail running doesn’t have journlists and no one’s holding the sport accountable. I think memes might be the closest thing we’ve got and that’s just one of the 10 things on my mind this week..

This week I pulled up a chair with a pile of gear and just talked: race season fandom, scrappy brands worth knowing, the shoes I'm fired up about right now, and the two-hour long run philosophy I'm using in training for Paris Eco Trail.

For ultra runners and trail runners who are in it for the culture, the gear, and everything that makes this sport unlike anything else.

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01:23 ACTUAL trail running
10:48 Ultratrail Race Season
13:39 Running to "Overcome"
16:23 Ciele Athletics
18:39 Trail Shoe Design
24:05 Scrappy Trail Running Brands
30:37 Meme Culture
35:08 Tommie Runz
36:21 Taylor Bodin (dirt division) + Josh Bouton (meta endurance)
38:27 Inky Steve, Stan Van Kemmel, Bryce Carlson, Sam Lohse

Presented by Kiprun.

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