Running long - A trail and ultra running talk

Francesco Puppi is a pro athlete for Nike, a Vert.run coach and your Running Long podcast host. In this episode I'm joined by Max Keith to talk about my 2022 season and how I went from a hospital bed to taking second at the World Trail Running Championships in Thailand, on November 5th 2022. We discuss about training, recovery, injuries, races, mental health and everything I've gone through during this amazing season. Another year of growth as a person and as an athlete, another opportunity to discover more about myself, about other people and places. Progress is never linear and this year has been a really good reminder of that. It's been a process of resilience and responsibility, of both failure and success, where I have learned to find value in the journey way more than in the outcome. I hope you enjoy this conversation and that you can somehow relate to it. _____________________________ Follow francesco on Instagram Rate our podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcast! Share this episode if you enjoyed it! _____________________________ Follow @vert.run on IG Download our app and sign up to our training plans on vert.run You can send us a message with any questions for us or for our guests! https://anchor.fm/vertrun/message Francesco's links: Instagram | Twitter | Strava | Website

7 Joulu 20221h 28min

Allie McLaughlin is a pro trail and mountain runner for On Running from Colorado Springs, USA. She recently WON the uphill race at the World Mountain and Trail Running Championships in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and took 3rd in the up and down mountain race. With these two performances, Allie caps off a tremendous season that has probably been the best one so far in her athletic career. From the win at the Broken Arrow VK, to the Mount Marathon Race course record, to winning two Golden Trail Series Final Stages and finally becoming a world champion, Allie takes us through her incredible year, sharing her favorite memories from each experience, reliving the moments of joy, struggle, excitement and self reflection. Allie goes deep into her training, talks about how she found in the joy of running the key to perform well, shares what each race has meant for her and her deep love for the trail running community. Get your popcorns ready! Follow Allie Mac on Instagram Follow her projects and get in touch with her: alliemacproductions.com _____________________________ Follow @vert.run on IG Download our app and sign up to our training plans on vert.run You can send us a message with any questions for us or for our guests! https://anchor.fm/vertrun/message Francesco's links: Instagram | Twitter | Strava | Website

2 Joulu 20221h 18min

Like the Wind is my favorite running magazine. It's printed on paper, beautifully illustrated and incredibly well written, and it tells stories about runners, from all walks of life, gender and color, no matter how fast or slow they run. Simon Freeman is the editor and publisher of Like the Wind. In this episode we talk about running - anytime and anywhere - and why running can be a catalyst for understanding our human condition. We talk about the values of Like the Wind: diversity, independency, inclusion, honesty We talk about the culture and the history of running, why it's important to give more credits and recognition to the elite athletes, listening to them, putting their interests in the center of our attention as they strive to push the sport forward. We give a view on the current running media landscape, the evolution of written and online press and the way we consume information, and how Like the Wind is navigating through all that. We also talk about the uncomfortable and ugly things related to running and why it's important to talk about them, something that Like the Wind does in a very interesting way. Get inspired. It's not how to run, it's why we run Subscribe to Like the Wind Follow Like the Wind and Simon Freeman on Instagram _____________________________ Follow @vert.run on IG Download our app and sign up to our training plans on vert.run You can send us a message with any questions for us or for our guests! https://anchor.fm/vertrun/message Francesco's links: Instagram | Twitter | Strava | Website

24 Marras 20221h 15min

Thailand was the stage of the first ever unified Mountain and Trail Running World Championship (the two events used to be separate), from November 4th to the 6th. Francesco talks about his experience - and individual silver medal! - in the short trail, his feelings, the ambience, atmosphere and results from this championship. Madeira was the perfect scenery for the Golden Trail World Series finals, won by Remì Bonnet and Nienke Brinkman. The event was held as a 5 day stage race, with more than 100km and 7000m to climb! Finally, we talk about the end of the WMRA World Mountain Running Cup, which had its last stage in Chiavenna, and some other important, iconic appointments of the end of the season: Festival des Templiers, Transvulcania, Javelina, Diagonal des Fous, Puerto Vallarta by UTMB (where our athlete Kertu Palo took 3rd, qualifying for UTMB!) Resources: World mountain and trail running championships results Golden Trail World Series results Application for the world mountain running cup 2023 Singletrack podcast: should professional trail runners have agents? _____________________________ Follow @vert.run on IG Download our app and sign up to our training plans on vert.run You can send us a message with any questions for us or for our guests! https://anchor.fm/vertrun/message Francesco's links: Instagram | Twitter | Strava | Website

18 Marras 202251min

Ryan Thrower is a professional photographer and film maker, and the creative director and co-founder of Freetrail. Besides being an athlete, I’ve always been interested in the way we communicate our sport, because I think the way our stories are told and shared really influences its development. Stories have the power to inspire people, to give motivation, to share knowledge and information, and I think that as humans our necessity to tell and listen to stories is written in our DNA. In this episode we talk about storytelling related to trail running: connecting the athletes and the audience through the power of stories. We talk about different languages and platforms, we provide some ideas on how to build an effective communication depending on the message and the audience, we discuss how social media have influenced the development of trail running and the public figure of the professional athletes. We also talk about the current state of the sport, which Ryans sees through his peculiar eyes of storyteller and athlete himself, about Freetrail’s mission, vision and projects and about what’s it’s like to work with some of the world’s best races and athletes. Follow Ryan's work: https://www.ryanthrowerphoto.com/ Begin again Peak Life Experience Rachel Drake - Training for UTMB OCC Enjoy! _____________________________ Follow @vert.run on Instagram Download our app and sign up to our training plans on vert.run You can send us a message with any questions for us or for our guests! https://anchor.fm/vertrun/message Francesco's links: Instagram | Twitter | Strava | Website

10 Marras 20221h 2min

Gian Marchet Schictanz is a professional trail runner from Switzerland sponsored by Brooks. He burst on the international trail running scene after his second place at the year Lavaredo Ultra Trail, one of the most famous and competitive ultra trail races in the world. After a great battle with the winner, Hannes Namberger (listen his interview on Spotify or Apple Podcast), he was only 10 minutes back after 120km, +6000m and 12 hours of running, in one of the most exciting races of this past summer. Besides this great result, I decided to have Gian on the podcast because he’s also a very interesting athlete in the way he tries to use data and technology to improve his own training. We talk about how he structures his training and how he plans his races and goals for a season, how he balances intensity and volume, how he recovers, in a simple way that is useful to runners of any level and experience. Gian is currently recovering from an injury which forced him to drop out from CCC, and this conversation has a lot of information about how to handle an injury (stress fracture), stay motivated and fit even without being able to run. Get inspired, follow Gian on instagram (he always gives great insight about training) and wish him a speedy recovery! Gian's personal website: gianmarchet.ch _____________________________ Follow @vert.run on Instagram Download our app and sign up to our training plans on vert.run You can send us a message with any questions for us or for our guests! https://anchor.fm/vertrun/message Francesco's links: Instagram | Twitter | Strava | Website

3 Marras 20221h 10min

Anders Kjaerevik is professional trail runner from Norway sponsored by Salomon. He’s mostly famous for two things: being an “experimental mountain runner”, as he likes to call himself, and being extremely good on the downhills. Right now he’s competing at the Golden Trail Series final in Madeira (5 stages, a total of 109km and +7300m), where - of course - he’s the leader of the special downhill segment classification! In this episode, we dive into his love for the sport and for training, how he likes to experiment different training techniques (this summer he was running a super high mileage with multiple weeks in a row over 300km and +10000m of elevation!), how trained for this season and what his strategy is going to be in Madeira. But I think the most interesting part is when he gives his tips and advice on how to become a better downhill runner. Visualisation, strength for the quads and handling the risk on technical terrain: learn from one of the best in the world! _____________________________ Follow @vert.run on IG Download our app and sign up to our training plans on vert.run You can send us a message with any questions for us or for our guests! https://anchor.fm/vertrun/message Francesco's links: Instagram | Twitter | Strava | Website

28 Loka 202252min

Albert Jorquera is a journalist, author, community manager and runner specialized in trail and mountain running. He's one of the voices from the sport that is contributing to its popularity and expanding its audience. Albert travels to the world most famous trail races to tell their stories and showcase the athletes, the competition and the values that make our sport so interesting and unique. He's also been working to bring trail running on the large screens, managing and broadcasting several TV streamings in English and Spanish for races like Transgrancanaria, L’Olla de Núria, Salomon Ultra Pirineu or The One Race, the final of the Golden Trail World Series. In this conversation we discuss about the past, present and future of our sport from a media standpoint, what are the most interesting trends and why we are in a very exciting moment for the development of trail running. The episode is full of tips and advice for people wanting to enter the media side of the sport and become journalists in trail running. Enjoy! Follow Albert Jorquera on Twitter | Instagram | Runedia _____________________________ Follow @vert.run on IG Download our app and sign up to our training plans on vert.run You can send us a message with any questions for us or for our guests! https://anchor.fm/vertrun/message Francesco's links: Instagram | Twitter | Strava | Website

21 Loka 20221h 2min