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The Route Makers bonus episode: Charlie "Freestyle" Gandy on building the xTx — a 1,500-mile trail across Texas, Louisiana border to El Paso — one lan...

In Part 2, the origin story comes into full focus: a seven-year-old running 5Ks, a music teacher who asked if she wanted to try a half-marathon at 13 ...

Kaylee Frederick woke up at 3:30 this morning to get her run in before the interview. The interview started at 5 AM New Zealand time. She is 21. She i...

He started in a desert in New Mexico, drank out of a cow pond, and told us he'd be back at his desk in Washington, DC by October 1st. On September 7th...

At 16, Kaylee Frederick laid down in the middle of a 100-mile race at mile 93 and cried for what felt like the rest of her life while other runners st...

The Route Makers finale: Renee "She-Ra" Patrick, longtime coordinator of the Oregon Desert Trail, on a career spent designing some of America's hardes...

In Part 2, Rafiki gets into the substance: the trail's political situation (he read 990 tax forms and called the opposition before deciding to hike), ...

Bradford "Rafiki" Bartels just became the first person to thru-hike the Alaska Long Trail, and his hiking poll score of 33 out of 100 — which he descr...

Bradford "Rafiki" Bartels just became the first person to thru-hike the Alaska Long Trail — a roughly 500-mile route from Seward to Fairbanks that is ...

The Route Makers Episode 4: Kevin "The Animal" Koski, Donovan "Iceman" Rice, Rue McKenrick, and Wesley "Megaman" Tils on what happens to a route after...

In Part 2, the origin stories. Fitch has been traveling since 21, lives a leap-before-you-look life that has taken him on a borrowed bike from Paris t...

Fab, Fitch, and Billie are currently halfway through the HexaTrek (France's 3,000-kilometer Grand Traverse) on their first thru-hike, as a couple who ...