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Trail and ultrarunning are evolving fast—so how do you keep up? Enter The Buzz, a podcast that cuts through the noise with grounded takes from a true expert in the sport.
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Hardrock 100's New Inclusion Policy, Explained by the Board Members Who Wrote It (opens the original)
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Stephanie Case is a human rights lawyer, founder of Free to Run, Hardrock 100 board member, and the runner who won Ultra-Trail Snowdonia in 2025 while stopping to breastfeed at aid stations. Chris Twiggs is a longtime Hardrocker and fellow board member. Together they wrote the race's new inclusion policy for transgender and non-binary athletes. In this conversation, Buzz asks the questions everyone else is asking online: why the policy lets athletes register in the category that matches their ge
How Sophie Woods the Length of the Alps in 28 Days (opens the original)
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Sophie Woods is a five-time UTMB finisher, three-time Tor des Geants finisher, Marathon des Sables veteran, and coach who lives in Andorra. This summer she set the overall fastest known time on the Via Alpina, running the full length of the Alps through eight countries in 28 days and 18 hours. In this conversation, Sophie explains why she wanted a project that scared her after a difficult few years of failed IVF, what six to seven thousand calories a day actually looks like (spoiler alert: lots
Mario Fraioli on 7 Training Fundamentals That Actually Work (opens the original)
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Mario Fraioli has spent nearly thirty years in running and still describes himself as infinitely curious, which is how a guy who came up through cross country and track ended up coaching Western States champions, marathoners, and mid-packers alike. In this episode, Buzz talks with the host of the Morning Shakeout about what's actually changed in coaching over the last decade: why the conversation shifted from calories per hour to grams of carbohydrate, why super shoes and better fueling have qui
Trueheart Brown: The Fire Chief Who Gave Up His Western States Ticket (opens the original)
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Trueheart Brown is the fire chief for the Coconino National Forest, a former hotshot, and the 2022 Black Canyon 100K champion who set a course record at the Sedona Canyons 125 this May. In this conversation, Buzz and True get into the golden ticket he won at Black Canyon and the Pipeline Fire that kept him from ever starting Western States, what a hotshot crew teaches you about suffering that no ultra can, why a Ponderosa pine forest that used to burn every two to fifteen years is now carrying 1
Run Rabbit Run Race Director Fred Abramowitz on Prize Money, UTMB, and the Future of American Ultras (opens the original)
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Fred Abramowitz is a retired natural resources attorney, the author of Travels in Africa, a veteran of 75 ultras, and the co-founder and co-race director of Run Rabbit Run in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. In 2012 he did something nobody in American ultrarunning had done before: he put up a $100,000 prize purse, the largest of any trail ultra in the world, and absorbed several hundred internet comments about it. In this conversation, Fred and Buzz get into why paying ultrarunners was the right cal
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