Borderlands Trail (+ Ultra) Running

Jeremy Bresnen founded Ciele Athletics Inc./Ciele Athlétique Inc. with Mike Giles in 2014 in the now-great running city of Montreal. I started running around 2012 and clearly remember seeing Ciele on the shelf at Salt Lake Running Company circa 2015.
I bought a hat almost instinctively and no doubt irresistibly.
I wasn't sure I wanted to even run in it yet becuase I loved it so much and didn't want to ruin it from the 100 degree July days. Eventually I bought a second Ciele hat - one for running and one for around town.
It was the first brand I wore while not running to signal to everyone that I was a runner. Ciele transcended any single type of running and permeated anywhere runners cared about performance and style - road, trail, and track from 5k to ultra distances.
They emerged with a cohort of brands still going today like Tracksmith, Oiselle, Janji, and SATISFY. This co-hort of early 2010s brands were all seeing something similar - people were not simply running - they were runners.
Jeremy Bresnen tells the story of Ciele while on a long walk with me from founding to today with thoughts on the future. From the days of hats-only to today where they create all sorts of running apparel and different styles of hats all built around performance first then style.
Presented by Kiprun.
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Camille Herron is an endurance and ultra running [world] Record Collector on the road, trail, and track.
She's committed to pushing back the boundaries and guardrails put on women's sports with a list of accomplishments that should make anyone listen.
Enjoy this conversation about Camille's great accomplishments with emphasis on Lululemon's 6 Day event, Spartathalon, Comrades, IAU Championships, and more.
Some takeaways:
Camille switched from road to trail + felt at home
She sets mini goals during races to make it feel attainable
Pain perception [or lack thereof] is her superpower
She caps long runs at two hours during training
Training should be tailored to individual needs
[especially for neurodivergent athletes]
The camaraderie in ultra running welcomes everyone.
Spartathlon and Comrades connect runners to a rich history + heritage

She believes she has many record breaking years ahead of her - what are her goals?
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Josh brings back the classic Borderlands [DFL Before DNF - iykyk] question for Camille - "how do you keep going when you want to quit?" No doubt in Camille's intense and rigorous endurance records she has wanted to quit but hasn't. So how does she keep going?
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A few years ago she noticed that she could incredible race output from decreasing her long runs down to 2 hours max. She later found a French author and researcher who wrote a book as he chased the idea.
After adopting it, Camille has enjoyed less injuries and an overall increase in performance.
[Hosts note: Candidly, we set out to talk about the not-so-recent 'Wikipedia situtation' but as the conversation was going I decided to stay in the moment of celebrating an unbelievable career. I hope to have Camille on multiple times in the coming years where we can talk about this and so many other things important to her and ultra running.]
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In this episode we reframe endurance nutrition to thinking about endurance nourishment.
In efforts under 24 hours, its reasonable to thinkg about it in simple terms of 'nutrition' but in these big multi-day ultra running efforts where you're sleep-deprived and putting enormous pressure on your system you have to think about nourishment. At some point you have to go beyond considering electorlytes and begin considering all the nutrients - fat, protien, etc.
How many calories do we burn in a 100 miler?
How many calories are our body burning in days following without effort?
How efficiently are we absorbing calories after one day of consecutive endurance effort?
Is there a connection between sleep and absorbing nutrition?
When you are at a nutritional deficiency in a race, can you catch back up?
Post-multi day run recover requires immense calories.
Caffeine is useful only if strategically timed.

This episode offer good advice for anyone running The Speed Project or any multi-day endurance race or run.
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There's no such thing as an overnight success but Anne Flower sure felt like it in the last year. She appeared virtually out of no where to snag the Leadville 100 course record from the great Anne Trason, set the 50 mile world record at Tunnel Hill, and get the overall Win at Javelina Jundred.
But its not true. She's been running hard for a long time but her first passion has been in the drivers seat - her career as a physician in Colorado Springs.
She's racing Black Canyon Ultras - 100k - to test herself against a super speedy field and she sat down to talk with Josh to talk shop about her career to this point and how she's thinking about BC specifically.
Anne's insights on training
Anne's insights on ultra running from a physician's perspective
Her approach compared to David Roche's as the two NEW Leadville CR holders
Her thoughts on Black Canyon's lack of prize money
Her fondness for Moab trail racing
Her perspective as an elite runner and sponsorships while remaining hyperfocused on her non-running career.

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Salt Lake Foothills Trail Races | 30 May 2026

Francesco Puppi has been ultra trail running for a long time, but his 2025 wins at UTMB's CCC, The Canyons 100k, and Chianti 47k put him squarely on the radar of the average American fan.
Anytime Francesco Puppi is in a race, he's a contender and one that the other contenders have to account for. The Black Canyon course suits his marathon speed even with its techincality.
He wins big mountain races but is speedy when the course suits.
No matter how the race shakes out, Francesco Puppi will make it fun for fans simply by bringing his gifts to the race and course.
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Hosted by Josh Rosenthal, founder of Borderlands Trail Running.
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