About

The Ultrarunner Podcast published from 2011 to 2023: an interview show, a news round-up five mornings a week, gear reviews, and periodic arguments about where the sport was going. It closed in August 2023.

This site keeps that work available and publishes new writing alongside it. It is run independently and has no connection to the original host — nothing here is his work or his opinion.

What’s here

Interviews. Athletes, race directors, writers, guides. The audio is gone; the service that hosted it stopped serving it. What is kept is the record of each conversation.

Gear. Vests, belts, poles and shoes as they were tested at the time. Products supplied free for review are marked as such on the page.

Daily News. A selection of the morning round-ups.

Commentary. The arguments — lotteries, trademarks, doping, drink.

New pieces are published under their own dates and marked as new.

Accuracy

Ultrarunning is a small sport with a long memory, and some of this was assembled from incomplete records. Dates, results and race names are checked against the public record where one exists. Where an account could not be verified it is described as what was reported at the time rather than as fact.

How the site runs

No advertising, no tracking, no analytics, no cookies, no mailing list. Every page loads from one server and contacts nothing else.