Trail Love | Trail Running Podcast Featuring Humans of Trail Running

Trail Love | Trail Running Podcast Featuring Humans of Trail Running

A trail running podcast with trail runners and their human stories about running, life, wisdom, training, longevity, and aging well. From New Mexico. Trail Love is all about human stories, featuring well-known trail runners and others who you’ll want to know. We're all drawn together by the ordinary awesomeness of moving through nature on single-track, pushing our limits though endurance running, the community and friendships we find on the way, and forging new adventures together in the outdoors. Pull up a chair, get yourself some coffee or your drink of choice, and join us. You are welcome here.

Episodes

September 6, 2025 62 mins

You're going to love this conversation with Ken and Margaret Gordon, founders of New Mexico's most iconic grass roots trail running races, the Mt Taylor 50k. They share how the race almost never got started; about the year Jim Walmsley and Gordon Ainsley showed up; how the race developed with the love and support of a community; and stories that show why this race is beloved by people who come from all over the United States to run...

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The first time I met Adam Arguello we were on top of a mountain. Specifically, we had both run separately up to South Peak overlooking the city of Albuquerque. The second time, he was volunteering at packet pick-up and cheering on runners at the Mt Taylor 50k, one of New Mexico's most iconic trail races. It's fitting to have met Adam in each of these ways because he is an authentic member of the trail running community, a pure runn...

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Blake Wood is the kind of guy you want to go out on a very long run with and just shoot the breeze. Blake can talk about winning Hardrock, finishing Barkley, competing at the highest levels as a master's athlete, coaching high school state champions, overcoming injury, and working with some of the most brilliant scientists in the world. And more than all that, he's a family man who, along with his wife, has raised three wonderful d...

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I'm talking with Megan Eckert, of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Megan just set her second ultrarunning world record in the past year by running 603 miles in 6 days at a World Championship event in France. Our conversation includes what it's like physically and mentally to run for six days straight, comparing 6-day events and backyard ultras, trail running in New Mexico, her work as a teacher and coach, hints of a possible shot at Barkley i...

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Imagine a running club that invites whole families to come and participate alongside the kids, that embraces and serves Indigenous New Mexicans, that celebrates and includes everyone equally from the parents walking laps to young first time runners to youth competing in national meets and winning.  Dr. Anthony Fleg imagined it, talked to his family about it, and together they made it a reality called Running Medicine. You're going ...

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Steve Tripp is a tough-as-nails trail runner from Dunedin, New Zealand. He's the director of some of the coolest trail running events you've never heard of (until now), and he's an amazing human who I've been privileged to call a friend. I met him when we both lived in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and I'm stoked to have him on the podcast. In this episode we talk about trail running in New Zealand, some of the events that Steve has helped...

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Many trail runners in New Mexico, Colorado and Arizona, have met Cliff Matthews on a trail at some point. If you have, you may remember him. He's talkative and leaves quite an impression. Lots of people know his name, but fewer know the story of this computer programmer, father, self-described deadhead, and prolific ultramarathoner who came to the sport somewhat later in his life. In this episode, we'll at least scratch the surface...

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This is the first episode of Trail Love introducing my story and why I decided to create a podcast about trail running, living well, and aging well. In this solo episode I talk about how I got into trail running in 2019, the trail and ultra running community I've found in Albuquerque, New Mexico, an injury to my meniscus, and the surgery and recovery I'm facing during 2025. 

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