Rest Day | UTMB Expansion, Kilian Back at Western States, Road Stars Move to Trails, & New World Records
Update: 2025-11-13
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Welcome to Rest Day, Freetrail's occasional news pod covering the latest happenings in trail running. This week we're joined by Tim Tollefson to talk through the following topics:
- UTMB's Purchase of Zugspitz Ultra Trail
- The global event landscape and where independent events fit
- Caleb Olson wins GPT100
- Kilian Jornet registers for Western States 2026
- Molly Seidel and Des Linden moving from roads to trails
- Eliud Kipchoge wears Radical Air Flow at NYC Marathon
- New 50 Mile and 100 Mile World Records
- Personal running and life updates
- A lot more!
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