Interview with Doug Mayer
Marathon Training Academy
Angie and Trevor
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
In this episode we bring you an interview with Doug Mayer -writer, ultra runner, and founder of Run the Alps. Hear Doug’s thoughts on cultivating an endurance mindset, new trends in trail running, and what it’s like to run in the Italian Dolomites. Plus, Trevor shares key takeaways from his journey to North America’s largest trade show for runners.
Links Mentioned in This Episode
2026 Running Retreat in the Italian Dolomites with Run the Alps. See this page for details. The tour starts on June 16th 2026. (8-nights, 9-days).
Run Coaching. Work with an expert MTA running Coach.
UCAN -get the Trial Sample Pack for free with our link, just pay shipping!
Altra Running -Altra shoes are designed to fit the natural shape of feet with room for your toes, for comfort, balance, and strength. So you focus on what really matters: Getting out there.
IQBAR brain and body-boosting bars, hydration mixes, and mushroom coffees. Their Ultimate Sampler Pack includes all three! Get 20% off plus FREE shipping. Just text “MTA” to 64000.
Drury Hotels -Get 10% off your stay with our link!
Doug Mayer grew up skiing in New Hampshire’s White Mountains and in a past life he worked as a Producer for the NPR show Car Talk. Today he is the owner of Run the Alps and writes for a number of trail running media outlets, including Outside, Trail Runner, and Ultrasignup. His latest book is ‘The Last of the Giants’, a graphic novel about running Italy’s 330-km long Tor des Géants trail race. He also wrote ‘The Race that Changed Running: The Inside Story of UTMB‘. He lives in Chamonix, France, with his partner and dog Izzy.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Ultra Running. Ultra Shoes are designed to fit the natural shape |
| 0:05.3 | of your feet and leave room for your toes. They provide comfort, balance, and strength so you can |
| 0:09.4 | focus on what really matters, getting out there. Try the Ultra Fit, get free shipping and |
| 0:13.9 | returns, and a 30-day trial run guarantee. Visit Ultra, that's A-L-T-R-A, ultrarraruining.com. |
| 0:38.0 | Stay out there with Ultra. And thanks to YouCan, our go-to fueling source for long runs and races. You can try the free You Can trial sample pack. It includes bars, powders, gels, and hydration products, six total items, and you just pay for shipping. To take advantage of that, visit you can.co slash mTA, get your sample pack and you can also save 20% on your entire order with the code |
| 0:43.8 | MTA. That's you can.com slash mTA. Welcome to the Marathon Training Academy Podcast, where we talk about all things distance running. |
| 1:08.5 | I'm Trevor. |
| 1:09.6 | And I'm Angie. |
| 1:12.7 | In this episode, we bring you an interview with Doug Mare, Ultra Runner, writer, and founder of Run the Alps. Hear him talk about the endurance mindset, |
| 1:18.3 | what is like to hit the wall multiple times in a race. We also discuss new trends in trail running |
| 1:23.5 | and what it's like to run in the Italian Dolomites. |
| 1:32.3 | And don't forget, as an academy member, you can get our new running form program. |
| 1:34.6 | It's called Optimizing Your Running Form. |
| 1:38.2 | Find out how to join when you visit Marathon Training Academy.com. |
| 1:43.9 | All right, well, I just got back from San Antonio where I attended the running event, this massive |
| 1:45.6 | conference and trade show for specialty running stores and brands and podcasters like myself. |
| 1:52.2 | That was my last trip of the year and I'm actually excited about not going anywhere for a few months. |
| 1:57.8 | Just really cozying into the winter we have, right? |
| 2:02.1 | Not excited about that. |
| 2:06.8 | So what was the running event like? Are you going to go into that more later on the episode? |
| 2:12.1 | Yeah, it's a massive conference. Imagine the biggest race expo you've ever seen, like if you've been to New York City Marathon or Chicago, and then like quadruple that size. Wow. |
| 2:17.8 | There were 357 exhibiting brands. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Angie and Trevor, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Angie and Trevor and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.