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Trail Love | Humans of Trail Running
by Andy Gray
Trail Love is about the humans of trail running featuring conversations with trail runners sharing their human stories, reflections, lessons, and wisdom about running, living well, and aging well. It features fascinating people from the trail and ultra running community, some well-known and others you’ll want to know, drawn together by the ordinary awesomeness of moving on singletrack, racing an ultramarathon, forging an adventure in the outdoors...you get it. Pull up a chair, get yourself some coffee or your drink of choice, and join us. You are welcome here.
Episodes
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Bryon Powell | Tells his own story in his home in Silverton
I sat down with Bryon Powell, founder of iRunFar, at his home in Silverton the day before Hardrock. We didn't talk about the race or the world famous trail runners literally passing by his window, but about his story, choices he has made, and what wisdom he has gained from his relentless outward...
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Simon Gutierrez | A New Mexico and Colorado Trail Running Legend Returns
Are you familiar with Simon Gutierrez and his story? Simon Gutierrez is a legend in New Mexico trail running and a member of the Colorado Running Hall of Fame. He grew up in New Mexico and started running in the 8th grade. Later we ran together on the same state championship winning high school...
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Sofie Schunk | A New Mexico Runners Journey from Roads to Trails
Sofie Schunk grew up in Albuquerque, then moved on to play NCAA division one soccer at Marquette. After graduating, she discovered she had a talent for running fast on roads. After a series of attempts, she qualified for the 2024 Olympic Trials in the marathon. Since then, she has shifted her…
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Travis and Amanda McWhorter | From Photographing Trail Races to Running Hardrock
Welcome to season two of Trail Love. Today I'm talking with two more great humans in the world of trail running, Travis and Amanda McWhorter. As photographers of many trail running events in New Mexico, they are doubtless warm and familiar faces to many trail runners in the state. In 2025, you…
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Howie Stern | International Trail Running Photographer and Trail Runner | Trail Love Podcast
This week I had the privilege of talking with Howie Stern, an internationally recognized trail running photographer who lives in Silverton, Colorado. Howie has gained a reputation for going out and getting the gritty shots in his quest to capture the human essence of trail running. His photograph...
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Ken and Margaret Gordon | Founders of the Mt Taylor 50k - New Mexico's Most Iconic Trail Running Race | Trail Love Podcast
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...
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Adam Arguello | Perspectives on Trail Running from a 2025 Hardrock Finisher and New Father | Trail Love Podcast
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…
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Blake Wood | Hardrock Hall of Famer, Barkley Finisher Shares Trail Running Wisdom for Living and Aging Well | Trail Love Podcast
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…
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Megan Eckart | Talking about her 6-day world record, her story, and plans for 2025 | Trail Love Podcast
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,...
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Dr. Anthony Fleg | Founder of Running Medicine, a running club changing kids and families in New Mexico | Trail Love Podcast
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…
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Steve Tripp, a positive force in the New Zealand trail running community | Trail Love Podcast
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…
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Cliff Matthews, stories and insights from a trail running icon in New Mexico | Trail Love Podcast
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...
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Introducing Trail Love, a new podcast about the humans of trail running
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,...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Trail Love is about the humans of trail running featuring conversations with trail runners sharing their human stories, reflections, lessons, and wisdom about running, living well, and aging well. It features fascinating people from the trail and ultra running community, some well-known and others you’ll want to know, drawn together by the ordinary awesomeness of moving on singletrack, racing an ultramarathon, forging an adventure in the outdoors...you get it. Pull up a chair, get yourself some coffee or your drink of choice, and join us. You are welcome here.
HOSTED BY
Andy Gray
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Trail Love is about the humans of trail running featuring conversations with trail runners sharing their human stories, reflections, lessons, and wisdom about running, living well, and aging well. It features fascinating people from the trail and ultra running community, some well-known and others...
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