Welcome to Episode 21 of Peak Pursuits, your ultimate podcast for everything trail running in Australia. This week’s episode is hosted by Sim Brick, Brodie Nankervis and guest host Maddy Reynolds! The team brings you a short interview with Maddy complete with a brilliant trail fail story; before diving into a review of all things UTMB, covering this week's Aussie results, and a quick look at the team for Skyrunning World Champs coming up next weekend!

Start - 25:00 :- Meet Maddy + Maddy’s OCC Recap

First up, meet Maddy and hear about her start in trail running during covid, her quick rise to some incredible results on the trail in Aus and her recent move to live in France. We also get a full run down of Maddy’s day coming a brilliant 31st female at OCC, complete with how she got lost, her favourite parts of the course and how it felt to be out there!

25:00 - 43:20 :- Brodie/Sim Update

We then get a very quick update from Brodie as he leads into the VK at Skyrunning World Champs next week and hear from Sim about her week of two halves with some big runs followed by the biggest downfall of being a traveling coeliac athlete. The roller coaster continues in a if-you-don’t-laugh-you’ll-cry kinda fashion!

43:20 - 50:00 :- Trail Fail

Maddy brings us a whopper of a trail fail this week with the story of a ‘short’ run in Italy that ended with being driven home in a Police car, and Sim embarrassingly manages to fall into an electric fence.

50:00- 1:20:00 :- UTMB Recap

In our race results segment, we first of all cover all things Aussie UTMB results before running through the overall results and giving some of our performances of the week. With so many to choose from the team have some good stories from the top end of the field and further back!

1:20:00 - 1:25:30 :- Weekend Race Results

We then cover a couple of Aussie races that went down over the weekend:

Coastal High Fun Run: https://results.sportseventservices.com.au/results.aspx?CId=16287&RId=6381

Cape Pallarenda Fun Run: https://my.raceresult.com/256324/

2:25:30 - End : What’s coming up

Lastly, we do a quick run through of the Australian team for the Skyrunning World Championships next weekend which we will dive deeper into on next week's ep, before highlighting the upcoming trail races around the country and what is coming up for us.

Thanks for tuning in to Peak Pursuits! Connect with us on Instagram @peakpursuits.pod to share your thoughts, questions, and your own trail stories. Until next time, keep hitting the trails and chasing those peak pursuits!

Sim: @theflyingbrick_

Brodie: @brodie_nank

Maddy: @maddyreynolds98

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