Great video Reto. Hope you recovered quickly and inviting you to join us again next year!!🎉

Great tips Reto. I like the back to back long runs idea

great video :)

Some thought provoking ideas there mate. I'm always wondering how to judge which hills to walk and which to run. I really need to practice this.

Really good helpful tips Reto. More than once, I’ve only managed to get to the finish line due to using poles, on long technical races, they are a must! Great video 👏

I got it today. Got it for $250 black Friday. Very happy with the purchase. Assemble was breeze and it's very quiet. Quality is top notch.

Great work Reto 😄 love the back to backs. Hae you tried 2 x 20 long runs in a day, say something like 20k AM, then a nap, 20k long run PM ? What's your thoughts ? the road boys do it but I'm know nothing about the ultras 😂

Smashed that session and even made into a little bit of a progressive 🔥🔥

That’s one heck of a pace to sustain Reto💪🚀

Very impressive, Reto! I’m doing a similar one this coming Tuesday

Another good workout 💪💪 tough in the wind but you got through it !!

Really useful review Reto, it’s ironic as I’m on holiday now overseas and Garmin had a promo where they reduced 955 from £440 to £299 but the offer expired 2-Dec and it would have arrived while I was away. Garmin had no info re what would happen re signature etc so I couldn’t risk it. Here the 965 is £520 so I thought the 955 would be a solid cost effective upgrade.

Good choice Reto, I’ve the 955 but the Amoled screen on the 965 looks sweet 👌

Great review and reasons reto 😃 Can you turn off the vo2max measurement in normal run mode ? On my epix2 I can only turn it on or off in trail mode.

Really like the look of the new display. I'm ok with my 945 for now, but it's helpful to know what's changed in the later generation. Thanks 👍

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Great effort Reto, track workouts are tough more than people can see in the video. Wind doesnt help either !!

Huh, I have to upgrade my Hoka Mach 4 and 2 pairs of Hoka Mach 5 to Hoka Mach X2. Thanks for the review, Reto! I use some Hoka Carbon X for racing now, but I think those Mach X2 might be my next choice.

Reto, your 2025 race lineup is wild - 1 mile to 200, hehe?! You're like the Swiss Army knife of running, tackling every surface and distance! Can't wait to see how you balance crushing technical trails with chasing those track PBs. Also, fingers crossed for the UTMB lottery! I was lucky in the Lavaredo 50k lottery, and my wife at 20k, after being rejected last year. Cheers! 🍀

Love how you turned a challenge into a win, Reto. Keep the grind strong!

Well done with the workout Reto, resistance training with the wind 💨

🎉🎉nice sharing

You crushed that, well done for doing so well, you looked great out there

Hi Reto, you’re crushing these track sessions, the wind reminded me of the weather here last Saturday when Storm Bert hit us😬

That poor wind didn't stand a chance against Reto's dominance 💪💪🏃‍♂️💨

You're an absolute BEAST!!

Hi Reto, you’re so professional and give us lots of useful and relevant information, I hope Hoka are watching😊You may remember me saying I’d like to try out Hoka, I was going to buy Clifton 9s yesterday but 4-5 negative reviews on the Hoka site re delaminatiion turned me off and Hoka CS didn’t reassure me they’d replace under warranty if mine did. Quite disappointed with them I have to say, I was so close to switching from Mizuno🙁

Hi Reto, you've certainly put a lot of thought into this - and a 200 miler, that sounds like a David Goggins challenge (think he did a 205 miler about 10-15 years back)! I'm sorry that you haven't accumulated enough running stones to qualify for the entry to the full distance UTMB raffle but being at UTMB for the lesser distance (50K?) if you get lucky sounds awesome, I bet the atmosphere there will be amazing. I haven't really put lots of thought into 2025 although I'm all set for the Prom Classic 10K in January (Nice), the Great Manchester Run (10K) in May and the Manchester Half in October. I'm hoping to be able to announce another European race aswell but that's still unconfirmed. I also fancy some trail races, not big distances like you but 5-10K events for variety. I'll also hit 100 Tourist Parkruns in January/February.

Great to see so many races, I’m still struggling to decide on which event to enter. Fingers are crossed for you for the lottery place Reto 🤞

Looks like some fun stuff planned for 2025! I am deciding on CCC vs OCC after my 50 miler, realistically my utmb index points to OCC being the only logical choice. So here is hoping we see each other in Chamonix! Speedgoat & Javelina Jundred would be my other 2, Canyons is a maybe.

Can't believe we are almost at 2025 already. Your schedule for next year looks great and broad challenge, all the best for next year !

Sounds like you've got some great races lined up for 2025 Reto! Best of luck with the OCC qualifier buddy. 😎🤘

A great session for you there, really enjoyed watching this 👊👊 You knocked it out the park

You must be excited about those plans. Sounds like you're going to have loads of fun, even if it is really hard work as well! Go get it, Reto 👍💪

Great work with the training Reto, even with the added challenge of the wind!

This was super interesting, thanks so much for doing the video and it's well done! Nutrition and diet have been a difficult road for me. I'll spare the details on the struggles in my life but will say that good, healthy food is very expensive. I've had to eat foods I really don't want to eat - lol. I've never been a big meat eater and currently will have only one serving of meat over a 24 hour period and will go without meat about 2 to 3 days a week. I'll be doing more research on various diets and hope to come up with somethiing that would work for me as I try to manage chronic health issues. My goal remains to increase my fitness level to allow me to run longer distances. It's all so very interesting!

That guy is a machine.

Very cool ty

Hi Reto (and Christian), awesome 200m reps there Reto, I calculated around 3:20-3:30/km, that is so quick and incredibly consistent across the 10 reps. Were you wearing the Cliftons for that session, I saw from the slow mo that you’re a mid foot striker?

I need to start doing this. I have access to the high school track one day a week. I might not be able to do 10 but I think I could do 5 x 200 (I'm 70 years old) but it's hard to say as I only ever run/walk trails. My shortest run/walk is about 8 miles with 1,330' elevation gain/loss and my fastest time is 1:53:07. (14:07/mi average) I want to get that down to 8 miles in 1:30:00 by the end of 2025. My all time top "sprint" speed recorded in the last three years is 5min/mi on level ground but for only a few yards.

Does cheating on the keto diet affect the results? Never-mind, you answered it at 2:39 :o) Ive been on a keto friendly diet for 6 years, Occasionally I go strict keto but it's hard when friends like to have you over for dinner. Ive never run any races but I have added trail running to my training, I'm mostly just a long distance backpacker doing 200 to 500 mile sections of the PCT a couple of times a year. I read there is a practical limit to burning fat at around 800 cal/hr so adding carbs ups your ability to burn more calories per hr. My personal testing seems to confirm this but it's hard to tell if you are burning any glycogen even on a strict keto diet. My blood fasted glucose is slightly high even on a strict keto diet (5.5 A1c or Serum Glucose of 95 at times) but I haven't taken any test strips on trail to test under load or at the end of a hike but I keep thinking about doing that. I eat all the things you showed (you're a good cook) but not as much of the plant material as I probably should. This made me hungry @ 6:43 . . . 10,000 cal per 100 mile race seems low but maybe it's because only light weight people run that far. I'm 200 - 220 pounds while backpacking (with the pack on) and I burn around 4,000 to 5,000 a day doing 20-30 miles in 10 to 15 hrs with all the elevation gain/loss. (according to my HR data)

Thank you for this video

Great video! I was just watching a video of a high carb vegan runner today and he said its important for him to run every day because if he takes a break his mechanics feel off and running feels much harder. Thats something I experienced myself on high carb diets but never on keto, there are just no kinks to work out if that makes sense.

Well researched and informative video there Reto. I’ve never run more than the Manchester Half as you know so fueling has not really come onto my radar but the argument seems very compelling for high fat low carb diets. The only thing I’d worry about with high fat would be high cholesterol as a result🤔Thanks for educating us all😊

That’s a lot of good information Reto, nice work with putting it all into a video, and as Mark said, your food looked delicious 😀

David Roche has entered the chat lol (David is definitely in the pro-carb camp). My personal world view is when Zach is racing he is doing 40g carbs an hour and when David is pushing he is doing 120g carbs an hour. So the reality for normal humans is something in the middle. I am more on the David end of the spectrum in the belief of consistent well fueled (with carbs) training and recovery would give higher performance but the human body is a complex thing and what works for one doesn’t work for others. David does use external ketones, the science is out on those but basically he doesn’t see a downside and is breaking records while using them so he is keeping them up. IIRC, he said the body Fatmax will become efficient “enough” on regular training. His only training he does fasted is a long run but the next day has to be a recovery day. W/O carbs the day before he’ll see a performance drop if he goes out the next day. Lots of interesting food for thought out there.

Thanks for that Reto, alot of good info in there. And good see what you eat as an ultra runner

That food definitely made me hungry, it looked delicious 😅 Some great insights into the fueling side of things. I feel good on lower carbs but rarely manage to stick to it for long.

Thanks for sharing all these insights on training and fueling, Reto! Love how you broke down the science, the practical hacks, and threw in some real talk about injuries and gut health. All the best wishes dear friend! Have a great new week!

Thank you for posting this Reto! You did a nice job videoing and describing the trails and race format. I was there too (just to your right near the fence in the video at the start). The terrain was much more difficult in sections than I expected, especially washed out areas that made steep ascents and descents over roots, rocks, and ruts very tricky. I fell four times, including twice in the first mile🤕 Heal well and ultra on!