Best Trail Running Podcasts

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These are the best trail running podcasts for understanding the sport beyond race results and surface-level coverage.

From culture and identity to competition and business, each show offers a different lens into how trail running actually works.

This list includes the podcasts worth your time, including the Borderlands Podcast.
Start anywhere, but stay longer.

West Texas Ultra Runner

Nobody Plans to Become an Ultra Runner
We love the sport but how did we all get here?

Borderlands Trail and Ultra Running Podcast

Trail Running Has a Fan Problem
Right now we have investment, not market demand

Raziq Rauf

Why Running Changes You with Raz Rauf
There is no better way to see the world or lens to understand it than running

Smiling person with glasses and tattoos - Mike Kratzer

Ultra Running Exposes Who We Really Are
This sport exposes who you are when plans fail

Man focused on filming outdoors. Billy Yang

Why People Run 100 Miles [with Billy Yang]
This sport breaks you on every attempt so why do we come back?

See also:

Singletrack Podcast
Freetrail Podcast

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Written by Josh Rosenthal

Josh Rosenthal is the founder of Borderlands, an editorial media company built around trail running, ultrarunning, and the culture surrounding the sport. Through essays, films, interviews, and the Borderlands Trail + Ultra Running Podcast, he is building Borderlands into a media institution for deeper stories, sharper counterpoints, and a fuller celebration of trail running. His work brings taste, curiosity, and cultural analysis to a sport often covered through race results, gear, and athlete-led narratives.