Trail running is the great equaliser — no one's asking your time, they're just asking if you got it done.

Matt's guide to trail running and how to train for your first trail race. The gear you actually need, the difference between fire trails and single track, what changes from 10k to 50k to 100k, and the 10 training priorities Matt pulled out of his UTA 100 debrief — including the one a mate exposed at 98k he's never going to forget. Run the runnable, power hike like you mean it, total recoverable volume, and why ultras are won by horsepower, not bounce.

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The ultra Matt was never supposed to finish.

The full UTA 100 race recap. Matt walks Georgia through every aid station — the perfect first 40k, the toe-punted rock at Nellie's Glen that he was sure had broken his foot, the ruptured ligaments he ran the back half on, and the 50k internal war between a brain screaming "quit" and a body that wouldn't. Plus the why he didn't share until now: chasing the point where mind and body both run out at the same moment.

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Everything you wanted to ask about marathon training — chafing, carbon plates, race vests, taper colds, and what to do when you're three weeks out and your longest run was 32k.

Part 4 of the Marathon Mini Series: the listener Q&A. Matt and Georgia get through your questions on holiday training, knee injury comebacks, time-based vs distance-based long runs, strength training, heat adaptation, race vests, carbon shoes, taper sickness, and post-race recovery. The catch-all episode that closes the series.

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