VERT Journal

New Indoor Free Plan’s By now, it’s clear that the COVID-19 pandemic has affected all our lives in ways most of us couldn’t have imagined just a few weeks ago.

Trail Running and COVID -19 We know that the COVID-19 situation is very delicate right now on a world-wide scale–and we also know the uncertainty you may be feeling if

Transgrancanaria 2020 Even though the race season just started a few weeks ago, lots of the big name-runners on the ultra scene usually use Transgrancanaria as their first important race

Paul Tierney: Running The Wainwrights It’s not the first time that we’re sharing news from the UK fell running scene and the records that are frequently set on these iconic

Pau Capell – “Run for the Artic” Pau Capell (who by now probably doesn’t need much intro considering the rocking 2019 season that he had) just launched a video with

Jim Walmsley – USA Marathon Trials It’s not often that our sport appears in massive media outlets like the New York Times, so when it does, our niche sport has

New Rules from the “World Athletics” (yes, we’re talking about shoes) Continuing with the topic of shoes like in our last newsletter, this week “World Athletics” came out with their

Best trail running shoes for 2020 We know that for us as trail runners, shoes are one of the most important things we have to make decisions about. Honestly, choosing

Runner v/s Base Jumper After so many years of seeing Kilian doing some pretty epic stuff, you’d think that he’s out of surprises. But in his latest video with a

UTMB Lottery winners We imagine a lot of you heard from UTMB last week about whether or not you got a spot in one of the series’ 2020 races. We

New training plan #Explore with Hillary Allen We’ve got some big news this week: we just launched a brand new #Explore Plan designed by Hillary Allen! Hillary’s teamed up with

Strava year in review 2019 We know that a lot of you are active Strava users, so we thought that you would enjoy this recap that the platform does every

Happy Holidays! This is the last Vert Beats of the year, and we couldn’t be more happy for what we have accomplished–with you–this year. We can’t say thanks you enough

Rob Krar’s Never-Ending Race We’re sure heard of Rob Krar and his victories at Western States–or, that you’ve heard of at least one of his many first places over the

“Rolling Mountains” – Ragna Debats and Pere Aurell project. Can you imagine being able to travel the world, with your family, and running amazing trail races on every continent? Well,

“Becoming a Marathoner” We know that a lot of you didn’t come to the trails from a road running background–lots of you might have come from another sport, from track

Mira Rai Not so long ago, Mira Rai’s name might not have rung a bell for people in the trail running world. But throughout last few years, this Nepalese runner

Nuits Blanches – Alexis Berg You like running at night? I think a lot of you would agree that one of the most challenging things about running an ultra is

TNF ECS San Francisco Like we talked about in last week’s newsletter, the racing season is coming to an end for a lot of trail runners in the northern hemisphere…and

Speed Transalp This time of the year, most trail runners in the northern hemisphere are about to take a break from all the training and races they’ve done during the

Nirmal Purja 14/7 Project At Vert.run, we get inspired by more than just trail running stuff. A few weeks ago, we shared with you our excitement about Eliud Kipchoge breaking

1st Vert Run Academy in Patagonia We’re really happy to share that last week, we had our first “Vert Academy” event, taking more than 60 kids from the town of