Live ultrarunning stories with heart and dirt.
Ginger Runner LIVE pairs endurance-sport interviews with the texture of a live room: banter, sponsor notes, chat questions, and plenty of race-day emotion. Its best episodes turn efforts into human stories about patience, family, injury, identity, and getting to the start line.
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Ginger Runner LIVE is an endurance-running show with the pulse of a live broadcast and the looseness of a friendly trailhead conversation. It starts casually. There is banter, gratitude, sponsor housekeeping, a little self-correction, and then the episode gradually finds its real shape around a guest. The center of the show is ultrarunning, but the appeal comes from how much human weather the conversations let in. Luke Nelson’s Hardrock 100 appearance becomes a story about waiting, gratitude, heroes, and finally standing on the line. Dylan Bowman’s visit moves between Hardrock, a new film, Free Trail, impending fatherhood, and the strange feeling of stepping back from one version of athletic identity. Jenny and Scott Jurek bring the show into family logistics, support roles, training balance, and what changes when the expected runner and crew roles shift. Adam Peterman’s Western States win is treated as both a breakthrough performance and a window into the trail community around him. John Maxwell’s Tigerclaw 50 mile victory gives the show space to talk strategy and also recap a race created by the Ginger Runner world itself. Training episodes with David Roche lean on live questions, coaching advice, and the broad range of runners asking for help. The show is practical, but not sterile. It likes effort, emotion, odd details, and the people who make long races possible. Some episodes leave the race course altogether, as with Brian Morrison, Andrea Morrison, and their kids recounting a six-day Olympic Mountains backpacking trip. Others track huge personal projects, injury resets, FKTs, and the realities around running a bakery with Devon Yanko. The pace is brisk, yet the interviews make room for long answers. The tone is warm without sanding away difficulty. Ginger Runner LIVE works best for listeners who want ultrarunning coverage that includes finish lines, support dynamics, trail community talk, training nerves, live audience questions, and the occasional messy preamble. It is not a clipped results show. It is a community room where endurance stories get told with laughs, awe, and enough practical detail to keep runners leaning in.
Made for: Best for trail runners, ultrarunners, endurance fans, and active families who enjoy long-form athlete conversations with a live-show feel. It especially suits listeners who care about race experience, training, community, and the emotional side of big efforts.
What sets it apart: The live format gives the show a loose, participatory charge, with chat questions and housekeeping folded into the rhythm instead of edited away. It treats athletes, coaches, family adventurers, and race figures as part of the same trail community.
Ginger Runner LIVE is a weekly talk show where The Ginger Runner (Ethan Newberry) talks about all things racing, training & beer. Also, a little about running, ultrarunning, marathons, triathlons & puppies. You'll meet some of the best endurance athletes on the planet, get a chance to interact with them and maybe learn a thing or two in the process! The goal is to inspire you to get out there and train hard, race harder and party hardest!
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Ethan Newberry draws out the training, relationships, setbacks, and emotion behind ultrarunning's imposing distances.
Ginger Runner LIVE turns ultrarunning into a warm, detailed conversation about everything surrounding the finish line. Ethan Newberry asks Adam Peterman about the running community that shaped him, while Luke Nelson's 12-year wait to start the Hardrock 100 leads into gratitude,…
Hardrock start-line tears make perfect sense here, if your race calendar has ever doubled as a diary.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A first Hardrock start becomes a candid portrait of what 12 years of waiting can mean.
Luke Nelson's first Hardrock 100 gives this conversation its center, turning a 12-year wait into the story of a seventh-place finish that clearly meant more than placement.
Bowman makes a changing athletic identity feel quietly consequential.
GRL 406 uses Dylan Bowman's film about his 2021 Hard Rock 100 run to open a more interesting question: what happens to an athlete's identity when the old markers stop feeling like enough.
Jenny and Scott Jurek talk through family, training, racing, and the real work of race support.
GRL 405 focuses on Jenny Jurek after her Bighorn 100, using that race as a way into the less tidy balance of family, training volume, and shared running ambitions.
A first 100-miler, a Western States win, and the Missoula runners behind the path.
Adam Peterman's first 100-miler turning into a 2022 Western States championship gives this Ginger Runner Live episode its natural center. Ethan Newberry starts with Peterman as a young runner coming off a major result, then widens the view to Missoula, the trail community there,…
A live awards show where a seven-day running challenge makes room for night photography and local ambition.
This live community awards show frames the 2021 Ginger Runner Global Run as a shared celebration of nearly 20 efforts from the previous seven days.
Nine 50Ks build to a record-setting tenth day before injury, training, and bakery life complicate the path ahead.
Ginger Runner Live's conversation with Devin Yanko frames a 500-kilometer project as more than a tally of miles. Yanko walks through nine 50Ks in a row, then a tenth day that tied the supported record and set a new unsupported mark, but the episode is strongest when it stays…
Bill Simmons debates NBA tanking, MVP races, and movies with Zach Lowe and friends.
Big Cat and PFT Commenter cover the NFL, March Madness, and NHL for laughs.
Ginger Runner Live episode 370 is the 2021 Ginger Runner Global Run award show, where Ethan Newberry and Kim recap a six-year community event that has become a seven-day running festival.
Ethan Newberry hosts ultra-runner and bakery owner Devin Yanko on Ginger Runner Live episode 343.
Ginger Runner Live episode 407 centers on Luke Nelson's first Hardrock 100, which he finished seventh after a 12-year lottery wait.
["Dylan Bowman joins Ginger Runner Live 406 to discuss Ryan Thrower's new film about his 2021 Hardrock 100 run, which premiered at 5 p.m.
["Jenny Jurek says she prepared for Bighorn 100 with 12 weeks of training and a 24-mile longest run.", "Ginger Runner Live episode 405 pairs Ethan Newberry and Kim Tashima Newberry with Jenny Jurek and Scott Jurek, who explain why the race mattered to their family.", "Jenny traces the road back through Cascade Crest 100 in 2007, a shelved Bighorn entry in 2008, and a 2019 Leadville comeback plan that never happened.", "Scott and Jenny focus on pacing, cutoff pressure, and how two kids, self-employment, and shared support shaped the final miles."]
["Ginger Runner Live episode 404 has Ethan Newberry and Kim Shimanewberry interviewing Adam Peterman, the 2022 Western States 100 champion.", "Peterman recounts the finish-line drug test, including passing out while trying to submit a urine sample and spending hours on a cot with other finishers.", "He explains why he accepted the Canyons 100k golden ticket into Western States after a week of deliberation and says he had won every ultra he entered since Speedgoat 50k in 2021.", "The interview also covers his Missoula training group, the influence of Mike Foot and Mike Wolf, and the last 25 miles when he kept checking whether Hayden or Tyler Green was closing."]
Ethan Newberry recaps the Tigerclaw trail race and interviews winner John Maxwell about his strategy.
Ethan Newberry hosts a live Q&A with coach David Roach, answering training and racing questions for runners of all levels.
Ethan Newberry interviews Brian and Andrea Morrison about their six-day family backpacking trip in the Olympic Mountains.