Caleb Olson Pre-2025 Trail World Championships Long Trail Interview

A video interview with Caleb Olson before the 2025 Trail World Championships Long Trail.

By on September 23, 2025 | Comments

Caleb Olson of the U.S. comes to the 2025 Trail World Championships Long Trail fresh off a win at the Western States 100 earlier this summer. In the following interview, Caleb talks about how he changed up his training after Western States, some of his adventures during the past six weeks in Europe, including two summits of Mont Blanc in two days, and how doing well on the world champs course will require all the skills that he aspires to have as a well-rounded runner.

For more on who’s racing, check out our in-depth men’s and women’s previews and follow our live race coverage on Saturday.

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Caleb Olson Pre-2025 Trail World Championships Long Trail Interview Transcript

Transcript coming soon.

Eszter Horanyi

Eszter Horanyi identifies as a Runner Under Duress, in that she’ll run if it gets her deep into the mountains or canyons faster than walking would, but she’ll most likely complain about it. A retired long-distance bike racer, she turned to running around 2014 and has a bad habit of saying yes to terribly awesome/awesomely terrible ideas on foot. The longer and more absurd the mission, the better. This running philosophy has led to an unsupported FKT on Nolan’s 14 and many long and wonderful days out in the mountains with friends.