Trails Collective Weekly Rundown: November 27, 2020
Weekly Rundown of Registrations, Results and Voices, and Upcoming Events https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ruw8J6IF5M Just In Case You Missed It Registrations Opening Soon Cayuga Trails 50’s Scheduled to run on Saturday, May 29th in Ithaca, NY have registration set to go live this Saturday, November 28th at midnight, with a reduced field size secondary to 150 or so who opted to skip the 2020 running and roll into 2021: https://ultrasignup.com/register.aspx?did=80590 Breakneck Point Slated for Saturday, May
Trails Collective Interview Series: Lindsey Weaver and the C&O Canal FKT!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXR81VkvBIE&t=144s Lindsey Weaver finished the 189-mile C&O Canal Towpath run from Cumberland, Md. to Washington, D.C. in 53 hours, a new female FKT. A week before, she ran a 50 mile virtual run. She has completed 5 ultras in 2020 alone. A librarian, Weaver began running only 5 years ago but already has 34 ultra finishes to her name. What’s next for her? What inspires her
Trails Collective Interviews Series: Emily Collins, Environmental Lawyer and multiple 100M Champion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU1A6Lp0Abo&t=99s Emily Collins needs little introduction. She has first place finishes at Burning River, Ethan Allen 24HR, Keys Ultra, Dawn Till Dust Ultra and has podiumed at most of her other races. She took 9th at the US National 24HR Championships and 5th at the Caumsett 50k National Championship. She is an environmental lawyer founding Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services, is on the Board of Directors
Weekly Rundown November 20, 2020
The Week in the Regional Trail Running Community TC Interviews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXR81VkvBIE TC Interview with Lindsey Weaver Ellie had the opportunity to connect with Lindsey Weaver. Lindsey finished the 189-mile C&O Canal Towpath run from Cumberland, Md. to Washington, D.C. in 53 hours, a new female FKT. A week before, she ran a 50 mile virtual run. She has completed 5 ultras in 2020 alone. A librarian, Weaver began running
Trails Collective Interview Series: David Hedges, 2020 Breakneck Point winner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXDgfmPR4BI David Hedges won the 2020 Breakneck Point trail marathon in a blazing fast 4:35, a solid 45 minutes ahead of second place. He’s currently doing his graduate work at Cornell University, but grew up in Chicago and did his undergrad at Colorado College. When David was 17, David finished 3rd at Twisted Branch in 2015. He was going into his senior year at high school and
Trails Collective Weekly Rundown, November 13, 2020
This week we plug upcoming events from Virginia north. Voices of event directors and finishers. Our first reformatted TC Interviews live with the amazing Emily Collins. Published our written reviews of the Salomon S/Lab Cross, as well as ten of the best waterproof running jackets on the market. And to close the week, a rundown of awesome efforts in the form of FKT Friday. Let's
TC Interviews: Kate Mingle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omQ6Egg6Hk4 Kate Mingle just took second in the gnarly Catstail Marathon a few weeks ago after an up and down 2019 and then pandemic ridden 2020. Speaking of the pandemic, Kate is an engineer working towards the COVID VACCINE! That’s right, not only is she crushing miles and mountains, she’s on the ground working to fight this virus the smart way…
Trails Collective Weekly Rundown, November 6, 2020
Weekly Rundown - Segmented This was our first week shifting the format to segmenting out the Weekly Rundown into multiple 10'ish minute episodes. Our hope is to make it more accessible and fitting into the Collective's daily commute openings. We'll lay it out here into this past Monday's Upcoming Events, Wednesday's Gear Review, Thursday's Results and media recap, and finishing off with today's FKT Friday. We
