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Trail Talk

Aaron Shimmons

Weekly global ultra-trail show covering races, athlete stories, gear reviews, and the culture that drives runners to push beyond the marathon. Hosted by Aaron Shimmons and HOKA Pro trail runner Ricki Wynne.

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  • 20 episodes
  • Updated July 28

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  • July 28 · 50 min

    Chasing OCC | Ida Robsahm on Training, Confidence & Racing at the Top

    This week on Trail Talk, Ida Robsahm joins the show. The Norwegian gets into her background in alpine skiing and the switch to trail running, a training philosophy built on high volume and variation, her recent races from the Valencia Marathon to the Marathon du Mont-Blanc, the mental side of racing and where confidence comes from, her course strategy for OCC, training out of Chamonix and the value of a team around her, fuelling and nutrition, and balancing it all with work as a teacher. RunMotion - The official training partner for Trail Talk. Click the link for 30 day free trial. https://page.run-motion.com/trail-talk / - /- / - / - / - / - / - / - /- / - / - / - / - / - / DISCOUNTS: CurraNZ 15% XMiles 10% Tantrums 15% Ascend App 30% 👇 All discount links can be found here https://linktr.ee/irunovermountains 👇 Join the Community https://linktr.ee/irunovermountains

  • July 21 · 1 hr 14 min

    The Return of Skyrunning | Skyrunner World Series & a New National Series

    This week on Trail Talk, Robin Vieira Brower and Mathias Eichler join the show to get into the return of skyrunning. They cover the resurgence of the sport, the Skyrunner World Series bringing a round to the US, the launch of a new national series, the challenges of race organisation and course certification, the role of media and live streaming in growing the sport, and why storytelling and community sit at the heart of it all. RunMotion - The official training partner for Trail Talk. Click the link for 30 day free trial. https://page.run-motion.com/trail-talk / - /- / - / - / - / - / - / - /- / - / - / - / - / - / DISCOUNTS: CurraNZ 15% XMiles 10% Tantrums 15% Ascend App 30% 👇 All discount links can be found here https://linktr.ee/irunovermountains 👇 Join the Community https://linktr.ee/irunovermountains

  • July 14 · 1 hr 26 min

    How UTMB Racing Has Changed | Scotty Hawker on Injury & Recovery

    This week on Trail Talk, Scotty Hawker joins the show alongside Aaron and Ricki. He gets into managing injury and recovery as an elite athlete, staying motivated without a race on the calendar, the role of community and training camps in his development, mental resilience after setbacks and DNFs, how tactics at UTMB and the major trail races have shifted, and why enjoying the process still matters most. RunMotion - The official training partner for Trail Talk. Click the link for 30 day free trial. https://page.run-motion.com/trail-talk / - /- / - / - / - / - / - / - /- / - / - / - / - / - / DISCOUNTS: CurraNZ 15% XMiles 10% Tantrums 15% Ascend App 30% 👇 All discount links can be found here https://linktr.ee/irunovermountains 👇 Join the Community https://linktr.ee/irunovermountains

  • July 7 · 1 hr 8 min

    Kilian vs Jim at UTMB | Hardrock 100 in Doubt | UTMB Recce

    We're back with another Trail Talk Live. Aaron and Ricki get into a training update post UTMB recce and the new block with @runmotioncoach, the Western States hangover, Kilian vs Jim at UTMB, Ouray 100 cancelled, Hardrock 100 potentially affected by the wildfires, and a large slice of banter. RunMotion - The official training partner for Trail Talk. Click the link for 30 day free trial. https://page.run-motion.com/trail-talk / - /- / - / - / - / - / - / - /- / - / - / - / - / - / DISCOUNTS: CurraNZ 15% XMiles 10% Tantrums 15% Ascend App 30% 👇 All discount links can be found here https://linktr.ee/irunovermountains 👇 Join the Community https://linktr.ee/irunovermountains

  • July 2 · 1 hr 30 min

    Trail Running Has Hype Men, Not Journalists | Are We Becoming The Bike Industry? | TrailCon 2026

    Fresh off TrailCon in Olympic Valley, Aaron sits down with Mathias Eichler and Krissi Polentz to unpack the business and media of trail running. Does the sport have any real journalism left, or just hype men waiting on the next shoe drop? Why are the biggest brands behaving like teenagers? Is the live stream gold rush ever going to pay off, or is trail quietly repeating the mistakes that hollowed out the bike industry? Photo: Scott Rokis RunMotion is the official training partner for Trail Talk. Click here for a 30 day free trial. All discounts and links: linktr.ee/irunovermountains

  • June 23 · 1 hr 21 min

    The Biggest Week in Trail Running | Western States, Lavaredo & Mont Blanc 90k

    This week on Trail Talk, Aaron and Ricki break down the biggest week in trail running. They get into Western States 100, Lavaredo Ultra-Trail by UTMB, a Mont Blanc 90k race preview, training and rehab including Ricki's meniscus tear, Aaron's experience at the Dolomiti Extreme Trail, and all the usual banter. Photo: iRunFar/Eszter Horanyi RunMotion - The official training partner for Trail Talk. Click the link for 30 day free trial. https://page.run-motion.com/trail-talk / - /- / - / - / - / - / - / - /- / - / - / - / - / - / DISCOUNTS: CurraNZ 15% XMiles 10% Tantrums 15% Ascend App 30% 👇 All discount links can be found here https://linktr.ee/irunovermountains 👇 Join the Community https://linktr.ee/irunovermountains

  • June 8 · 1 hr 8 min

    Marjo Liikanen | SCT 111k Champion | Self-Coached Mum of Two

    This week on Trail Talk, Marjo Liikanen joins the show. The Swiss Canyon Trail 111k champion gets into her backstory, how she found running through orienteering, her love of technical trail, training at elite level while self-coaching and raising two young boys, her journey to a first international win, and how she overcame nutrition issues last year to put together her best season yet. / - /- / - / - / - / - / - / - /- / - / - / - / - / - / DISCOUNTS: CurraNZ 15% XMiles 10% Tantrums 15% Ascend App 30% 👇 All discount links can be found here https://linktr.ee/irunovermountains 👇 Join the Community https://linktr.ee/irunovermountains

  • June 2 · 1 hr 8 min

    Swiss Canyon Trail Weekend Debrief

    This week on Trail Talk, Aaron and Ricki are back live from Chamonix to debrief the Swiss Canyon Trail race weekend. They get into the race, Ricki's injury, the full weekend experience, and your questions answered. / - /- / - / - / - / - / - / - /- / - / - / - / - / - / DISCOUNTS: CurraNZ 15% XMiles 10% Tantrums 15% Ascend App 30% 👇 All discount links can be found here https://linktr.ee/irunovermountains 👇 Join the Community https://linktr.ee/irunovermountains

  • May 26 · 57 min

    Race Week Live from Chamonix | Satisfy Circle Pit

    This week on Trail Talk, Aaron and Ricki are live in person from Chamonix — it's race week for Swiss Canyon Trail. They get into Ricki's injury that's plagued him through the taper, your questions about UTA, a deep dive on the Satisfy Circle Pit, and the epic racing at Zegama. / - /- / - / - / - / - / - / - /- / - / - / - / - / - / DISCOUNTS: CurraNZ 15% XMiles 10% Tantrums 15% Ascend App 30% 👇 All discount links can be found here https://linktr.ee/irunovermountains 👇 Join the Community https://linktr.ee/irunovermountains

  • May 19 · 1 hr 5 min

    Charlotte Fisher's UTS 100 Mile Debrief | Tove Alexandersson's Zegama Record | Croft vs Yao at UTA

    This week on Trail Talk, Aaron is joined by Charlotte Fisher, stepping in for Ricki, with the show built around her runner-up finish at the UTS 100 Mile, her best result yet at the race. Charlotte walks us through one of the most brutal hundred-milers on the calendar, the technical ground, the cold, the moments it nearly came apart, and the fight to second, before taking on your questions from the week on fuelling, kit, strength training and what comes next. To close, the biggest stories in the sport: Beñat Marmissolle's course-record run at UTS, Tove Alexandersson's record and Kilian Jornet's tough day at Zegama, and a fast weekend at Ultra-Trail Australia headlined by Michael Dunstan. / - /- / - / - / - / - / - / - /- / - / - / - / - / - / DISCOUNTS: CurraNZ 15% XMiles 10% Tantrums 15% Ascend App 30% 👇 All discount links can be found here https://linktr.ee/irunovermountains 👇 Join the Community https://linktr.ee/irunovermountains

  • May 12 · 1 hr 4 min

    Swiss Canyon Trail Elites | History Made at Cocodona 250

    This week on Trail Talk, Aaron sits down with Ricki Wynne, George Knight and Yurick Aregger — three elite male runners with Swiss Canyon Trail firmly in their sights. They get into training approaches and volume, how each athlete is tapering, course insights and race strategy, and the mentality it takes to compete at ultra level. We also roundtable the amazing Rachel Entrekin making history at Cocodona 250 — the first woman to win the race outright in its history — and compare what it takes to race at the 200-mile distance. / - /- / - / - / - / - / - / - /- / - / - / - / - / - / DISCOUNTS: CurraNZ 15% XMiles 10% Tantrums 15% Ascend App 30% 👇 All discount links can be found here https://linktr.ee/irunovermountains 👇 Join the Community https://linktr.ee/irunovermountains

  • May 5 · 1 hr 25 min

    The Hardest Ultra on Earth | Prototype Shoes at Western States | Walmsley's Wildcard

    This week on Trail Talk, Aaron and Ricki get into it. Swiss Canyon Trail and UTA 100 training is underway — they break down where things are at and what the next weeks look like. Prototype shoes at Western States - is it fair? The golden ticket race calendar dropped this week, with some solid calls and a few they'd have done differently. Walmsley is heading back to Western States without having to race his way in. And the case for Rinjani 162k as the hardest ultra-trail race on the planet. / - /- / - / - / - / - / - / - /- / - / - / - / - / - / DISCOUNTS: CurraNZ 15% XMiles 10% Tantrums 15% Ascend App 30% 👇 All discount links can be found here https://linktr.ee/irunovermountains 👇 Join the Community https://linktr.ee/irunovermountains

  • April 28 · 1 hr 42 min

    Gavan Hennigan | The Iditarod — 1000 Miles Across Alaska

    This week on Trail Talk, Aaron sits down with Gavan Hennigan — adventurer, endurance athlete, and the only person to finish the Iditarod Trail Invitational this year. 1000 miles across Alaska in the depths of winter. When the trail disappeared a few hundred miles in, every other athlete stopped. Gavan kept going. He finished in 32 days — two days outside the official cutoff — but he finished. Alone. In conditions no one else was willing to face. This is not a race story. It's a survival story. We cover preparation, nutrition and hydration in extreme cold, managing health on the trail, sleeping in -50°C, wildlife encounters, crossing sea ice on his birthday, decision-making in the wilderness, and the emotional resilience required to keep moving when everything in you wants to stop. One of the most compelling conversations we've had on Trail Talk. / - /- / - / - / - / - / - / - / - /- / - / - / - / - / - / DISCOUNTS: - CurraNZ 15% - XMiles 10% - Tantrums 15% - Ascend App 30% 👇 All discount links can be found here https://linktr.ee/irunovermountains 👇 Join the Community https://linktr.ee/irunovermountains

  • April 22 · 1 hr 32 min

    Charlotte Fisher | Grit, UTMB & the Journey to Elite Ultra Running

    This week on Trail Talk, Aaron and Ricki sit down with Charlotte Fisher — a runner who started ultra running in February 2023 with zero running background, won her first event with 12 weeks of training, and has since become one of the most exciting names in British ultra running. In under three years she has won the Centurion North Downs Way 100, finished 3rd woman at UTS Snowdonia 13 hours faster than the previous year to earn elite UTMB entry, finished 3rd woman at Mallorca by UTMB, and become just the sixth woman ever to run a sub-24 hour Arc of Attrition — finishing 2nd woman overall. We dig into race strategy, weather, adversity, imposter syndrome, UTMB ambitions, and what drives someone to go from never having raced to competing at the very top of the sport. / - /- / - / - / - / - / - / - / - /- / - / - / - / - / - / DISCOUNTS: - CurraNZ 15% - XMiles 10% - Tantrums 15% - Ascend App 30% 👇 All discount links can be found here https://linktr.ee/irunovermountains 👇 Join the Community https://linktr.ee/irunovermountains

  • April 15 · 1 hr 9 min

    HOKA Speedgoat 7 First Impressions | Swiss Canyon Trail & UTA Training

    This week on Trail Talk, Aaron and Ricki get into the HOKA Speedgoat 7 — one of the most anticipated trail shoe launches of the year. Ricki was at the UK launch event in the Peak District, and we share our first impressions fresh from testing. Plus a deep dive into training for Swiss Canyon Trail and Ultra Trail Australia, and why CurraNZ has been making a real difference in our recent training. / - /- / - / - / - / - / - / - / - /- / - / - / - / - / - / DISCOUNTS: - CurraNZ 15% - XMiles 10% - Tantrums 15% - Ascend App 20% 👇 All discount links can be found here https://linktr.ee/irunovermountains 👇 Join the Community https://linktr.ee/irunovermountains

  • April 7 · 1 hr 23 min

    Media Debrief | Trail Running in China, Race Organisation & Gear

    Aaron is joined by Aran from Trail Running Review and Carles from Road Running Review — two of the media crew on the Kailas FUGA China trip — for a proper debrief on everything they saw. First impressions of China, the Chengdu Panda Trail race experience, gear tested in the field, how the event was organised, and the cultural nuances that don't make it into a race report. Three perspectives. One deep dive. DISCOUNTS: • CurraNZ 15% • XMiles 10% • Tantrums 15% • Ascend App 20% 👉 All discount links can be found here https://linktr.ee/irunovermountains 👉 Join the Community https://linktr.ee/irunovermountains

  • April 1 · 1 hr 24 min

    Inside China's Trail Running Scene | Kailas FUGA & Chengdu Trail Race

    <p>Aaron and Ricki are back together after a few weeks away from the regular show. This week: a full debrief from Aaron's Kailas FUGA media trip to China — the brand, the gear, the FUGA Mountain Club, the Chengdu Trail Race, and what China's trail running scene looks like from the inside. Plus the latest ultra trail news and your viewer questions answered.</p> <p>DISCOUNTS:<br> - CurraNZ 15%<br> - XMiles 10%<br> - Tantrums 15%<br> - Ascend App 20%</p> <p>👉 All discount links can be found here<br> <a href="https://linktr.ee/irunovermountains">https://linktr.ee/irunovermountains</a></p> <p>👉 Join the Community<br> <a href="https://linktr.ee/irunovermountains">https://linktr.ee/irunovermountains</a></p>

  • March 24 · 1 hr 49 min

    The State of the Sport | Ian Corless

    This week on Trail Talk, Aaron sits down with Ian Corless — photographer, journalist, and host of the Talk Ultra podcast — for a wide-ranging conversation on the state of ultra trail running. From the early days of skyrunning to the rise of UTMB, the birth of Glencoe Skyline, the impact of COVID on the sport, the future of trail running governance, and the enduring legacy of Killian Jornet. One of the original voices in the sport with a lot to say. / - /- / - / - / - / - / - / - / - /- / - / - / - / - / - / DISCOUNTS: - CurraNZ 15% - XMiles 10% - Tantrums 15% - Ascend App 20% 👇 All discount links can be found here https://linktr.ee/irunovermountains 👇 Join the Community https://linktr.ee/irunovermountains

  • March 17 · 1 hr 15 min

    Rebecca Hormann | Soccer to 300K — First Attempt, First Win

    This week on Trail Talk, Aaron and Ricki sit down with Rebecca Hormann — the woman who crossed Portugal on foot, 302 kilometres east to west, and won on her first attempt. We dig into her journey from a soccer scholarship in Spain to winning ultras, the Terra de Gigantes race debrief, her Kailas Fuga partnership, and what's next including Madeira and beyond. Also in this episode — big news on a new partnership with Ascend App, the training platform formerly known as Albin. Use code TrailTalk20 for 20% off. / - /- / - / - / - / - / - / - / - /- / - / - / - / - / - / Ascend App — 20% off with code TrailTalk20 https://linktr.ee/irunovermountains CurraNZ 15% off https://linktr.ee/irunovermountains XMiles 10% https://xmiles.avln.me/c/FlZlRfhosOqx Tantrums 15% https://tantrums.avln.me/c/SrLvDYbqkDna Code: TrailTalk15 Community https://linktr.ee/irunovermountains

  • March 10 · 1 hr 31 min

    Jon Albon: Training Secrets & The Ascend App

    Jon Albon is back on Trail Talk. Fresh off a tough but educational UTMB debut, Jon is building toward 2026 with Montblanc 90 and another crack at Chamonix on the horizon. UTMB 2025: Lessons from his first time round and what changes in year two How horrendous weather and three documentary crews made it a true baptism of fire Training: The shift from low to medium mileage athlete Progressive overload as the number one principle Downhill conditioning without mountains, dirty threshold and stair-specific prep Fuelling: The electrolyte, fluid and carb triangle Racing on pink Himalayan salt and granulated sugar Why fuelling is still his biggest weakness as an athlete The App: Albin App is rebranding to Ascend Origin story, impact, cardio and speed metrics explained The chatbot that runs on human intelligence, not AI Support the show and find all links at linktr.ee/irunovermountains