What does it really take to complete the TOR330?

On this episode of Trails, Tales & Fails, we're joined by Mike Harrington from George & Falcon Trail Runners to talk about taking on the TOR330 — a brutal 330km ultra through the Italian Alps, packed with huge climbs, technical mountain trails, sleep deprivation and some seriously tough decisions.

Mike takes us inside the race, sharing the highs, the lows, the moments when things got properly difficult, and what it takes to keep moving when you're running on empty.

We also talk about his experiences at the Winter Downs 100 and UTS the realities of racing over extreme distances, lessons learned the hard way, and what it takes to tackle some of the biggest challenges in ultra running.

Plus, we're introducing some new features to TTF, including Coaching Corner, Tales from the Trail and TTF Shout-Outs. We want your questions, stories and running disasters!

🎧 In this episode:

• What makes the TOR330 one of the ultimate ultra-running challenges

• Managing sleep deprivation, fuelling and fatigue over multiple days

• The highs, lows and toughest moments of a 330km mountain ultra

• Race strategy and lessons learned

• Advice for runners stepping up to longer ultras

• Mike's next big challenge

Also with Truth or Lie and our quickfire questions.

We're shaking things up! Alongside our usual chats with runners doing ridiculous things on the trails, we're introducing new features:

🏃 Coaching Corner — Your training, racing and fuelling questions answered.

😂 Tales from the Trail — Your funniest, strangest and most disastrous running stories.

🙌 TTF Shout-Out — Celebrating runners doing brilliant things, big or small.

We want to hear from you, so send your questions, stories and shout-outs to trailstalesfails@gmail.com. You could even feature in a future episode!

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