
World Mountain Running Championships
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Sep 15, 2026
#99 Live: UTMB Debrief with Elite Trail Team
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67:01Doug StewartGUEST
That's how kind of the funding works, lottery funding, things like that.
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67:04Doug StewartGUEST
But yeah, absolutely, when athletes have gone to represent their countries at major trail mountain running championships, they've had to pay for the, their own way to there.
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67:14Doug StewartGUEST
So they're not, it's not a free trip to go and run for GB at the World Championships last year.
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67:19Doug StewartGUEST
And- I'll not say too much about the fact that even when athletes are self-funding, they only picked one or two women instead of a team of six women in certain races.
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68:40Doug StewartGUEST
Uh, I'm forgetting a few, I'm sure.
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68:42Doug StewartGUEST
But, you know, so there's so many different organizations as well in the space, so that makes it really difficult for an organization.
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68:48Doug StewartGUEST
The one area that I do see that is growing and I think it's really good, has been the World Mountain Running Association, [lip smacks] and then working with World Athletics to bring the World Trail and Mountain Running Championships.
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68:59Doug StewartGUEST
And in the last three editions, I think that's grown year on year, and it's getting, uh, every, it happens once every two years, but the last three editions, and I think that is an area that seems to be improving, uh, in this space, which I think is quite encouraging 'cause you're seeing now more involvement from World Athletics in, uh, the trail running space.
25. It's More Embarrassing Not to Try: Colleen Barney on Comebacks, Confidence, and Racing Past 50
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38:43Colleen BarneyGUEST
We also do, we coordinate with the mountain runners.
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38:45Colleen BarneyGUEST
We do a World Mountain Running Championship.
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38:47Colleen BarneyGUEST
We do an ultra running championship.
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38:49Colleen BarneyGUEST
We do a marathon.