Ultrarunning News Christian Malmström and Daniel Westergren

In this special episode Daniel Westergren talks to Aleksandr Sorokin after his incredible new 24-hour world record, at the European Championship in Verona, Italy. 319.614 km, or 198.599 miles, are numbers that are difficult to comprehend. This 41-year old Lithuanian has started a new chapter in the history of ultrarunning, yet he is a very down to earth person.
There is also a video version of this interview at https://youtu.be/6L6w3xEHjxA. For a prerace interview with Aleksandr Sorokin, see https://youtu.be/b2GX-gnZ-lU.

Today we have interviewed the winner from Val d'Ran by UTMB Katie Schide (CDH) and Germain Grangier (VHA) who is one of the power couples of our sport.
We also have a fresh interview with Lootie who is about to finish her run across the whole world.
Finally we caught up with Joe McCongaughy (stringbean) who set an impressive unsupported FKT on the John Muir Trail.
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Ida Nilsson is again co-hosting this episode with reports from some high-profile ultratrail races. We are joined by Western States winners Adam Peterman & Ruth Croft, Marathon du Mont-Blanc winner Jon Albon and Lavaredo winner Hannes Namberger.
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Emelie Forsberg is joining us in our virtual studio and tells us about her way back to racing, participating in Zegama again, the philosophy behind Moonvalley and NNormal and future plans. We have also interviewed Nienke Brinkman, who crushed the course record at Zegama and who is at world class level in both trail running and marathon.
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Belgian Merijn Geerts was the last one standing at The Race of the Champions - Backyard Masters. His new backyard ultra record is an unbeliavable 90 hours. We have both Merijn and his assist, Irish-man Keith Russell, on the show. Patrycja Bereznowska finally got her 48-hours world record at the Ultra Park Weekend in Poland. We have interviews with Patrycja and with Andrzej Piotrowski who broke the Polish 24-hour record.
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In this episode we have interesting interviews from two long 250 mile races, Thames Ring 250 and Cocodona 250. Paul Mason ran TWO laps of Thames Ring and 24-year old Annie Hughes won Cocodona and placed third overall.
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