An ultra running podcast bringing you news, reviews and interviews from around the ultra world
Talk Ultra
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259 episodes
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An ultra running podcast bringing you news, reviews and interviews from around the ultra world
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1/23/2012
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Recent Episodes
September 17, 2025
Episode 254 - Amy McCulloch - RUNNER 13
<div draggable="false" data-pm-slice="1 1 []" data-en-clipboard= "true">Amy is a world-renowned author who in 2022 toed the line of the iconic Marathon des Sables.</div> <div draggable="false">The race planted seeds for a story, one of ultra-running and mystery. In June 2025, 'RUNNER 13' was released.</div> <div draggable="false"><img src= "//assets.libsyn.com/show/35424/IJC_MDS2022-04508.jpg" alt= "Amy at the 2022 MDS (c) iancorless" width="800" height= "533" /></div> <div draggable="false">Amy joins the podcast to discuss the book and her MDS story.</div> <div draggable="false"> </div> <div draggable="false"> </div> <div draggable="false">Runner 13 is a thriller that drops readers straight into a deadly stage race across the Sahara, echoing the notorious Marathon des Sables in Morocco. McCulloch’s own experience running that event shapes every detail - the brutal desert landscape, the psychological toll, and the obsession with endurance that defines the sport. The story follows Adrienne, a once-great ultrarunner forced back into competition, and Stella, daughter of the race’s manipulative director, Boones. His events, modelled on real-world extreme events, they aren’t designed to be won, but to break runners. Central to the mystery is Runner 13, a symbol of both glory and doom. Told in sharp, cliff-hanging chapters that jump between present and past, the novel feels like Agatha Christie transplanted to the Sahara: a brutal race where survival, not victory, is the prize, and where Morocco’s desert becomes both the setting and the trap.</div> <div draggable="false"><img src= "//assets.libsyn.com/show/35424/Runner_13.jpeg" alt="" width="183" height="275" /></div>
August 22, 2025
Episode 253 - Lydia Oldham
<p class="p1">From Lockdown Laps to FKT’s</p> <p class="p1">Lydia started running during lockdown whist living in the UK. From very slow 2km runs, Lydia soon progressed to creating her own approach to running and ultra. She did road marathons, but did them different, failed at her first ultra, but then something clicked...</p> <p class="p1"><img src= "//assets.libsyn.com/show/35424/iancorless_ODM2025-201408.jpg" alt= "" width="2400" height="1600" /></p> <p class="p1">• The Speed Project solo in the USA – 500km in 5 days.</p> <p class="p1">• Oman Desert Marathon – done.</p> <p class="p1">•FKT across 650km of the Camino de Santiago in Portugal – done.</p> <p class="p1"><img src= "//assets.libsyn.com/show/35424/iancorless_ODM2025-00086.jpg" alt= "" width="2400" height="3000" /></p> <p class="p1">Now she lines up at OCC during UTMB week and follows up with her own fundraising project in the UK.</p> <p class="p1">2026? she’s coming to Costa Rica to face heat, jungle, mountains, and coastline of The Coastal Challenge</p>
August 14, 2025
Episode 252 - Abelone Lyng DNT Massiv Trail (FKT) 'Funnest Known Time'
<p class="Default"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">You may assume it</span><span dir="rtl" lang="AR-SA" xml:lang= "AR-SA">’</span><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">s all about speed and pressure. Not this time. Norwegian runner, <strong>Abelone</strong> <strong>Lyng</strong>, put her own spin on the legend that is the <strong>DNT MASSIV TRAIL</strong>: 364</span><span lang="FR" xml:lang="FR"> </span><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">km, and just under 13,000</span><span lang="FR" xml:lang="FR"> </span><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">m vertical gain across four national parks in Norway:</span></p> <p class="Default"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang= "EN-US"><strong>Breheimen</strong>,</span></p> <p class="Default"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang= "EN-US"><strong>Jotunheimen</strong>,</span></p> <p class="Default"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang= "EN-US"><strong>Skarvheimen</strong>,</span></p> <p class="Default"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">and <strong>Hardangervidda</strong>. </span></p> <p class="Default"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">In just 10-days, Abelone moved fast and light, unbroken, solo, yet utterly connected.</span></p> <p class="Default"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">She didn</span><span dir="rtl" lang="AR-SA" xml:lang= "AR-SA">’</span><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">t chase a formal <strong>FKT</strong>. She chased what she coined a</span> <span dir="rtl" lang="AR-SA" xml:lang="AR-SA">“</span><span lang= "EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US"><strong>Funnest Known Time</strong>.”</span></p> <p class="Default"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang= "EN-US"> <img src="//assets.libsyn.com/show/35424/Massiv.png" alt="" width="1080" height="1080" /></span></p>
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