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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