Joaquin Lopez | UTMB Podium Finisher & Mt. Fuji 100 Course Record Holder
The Freetrail Podcast with Dylan Bowman
Dylan Bowman
5 • 773 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2025
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Joaquin Lopez is a professional trail runner from Ecuador, living in Barcelona. After many years of strong performances, Joaquin had a huge international breakthrough, finishing 3rd at the 2024 UTMB. Building off that momentum, Joaquin started his 2025 season with a huge win and course record at the Mt. Fuji 100 in Japan, winning by a large margin. This is his first appearance on the podcast.
Topics discussed:
- Ecuadorian sporting culture
- The state of Latin American trail running
- Having a clear purpose and its benefit to performance
- Joaquin's background in adventure racing
- The 2024 UTMB and what led to that breakthrough
- Joaquin's method for goal setting and race selection
- The dominant Mt. Fuji 100 performance
- Joaquin's sponsor Kailas
- His work with the Pro Trail Runners Association
- A lot more!
*Note: In the podcast, Joaquin says his first ultra was in 2019 - he meant to say 2012, when he was 19 years old.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, fam, welcome to the free trail podcast. Of course, I am your loving host, Dylan Bowman. |
| 0:19.6 | And today we are joined by Joaquin Lopez, the Ecuadorian |
| 0:23.2 | sensation, who's emerged as an absolute force on the international trail running circuit. |
| 0:30.1 | Joaquin burst on the scenes for a lot of people last year with a huge third place podium finish |
| 0:35.0 | at UTMB, becoming the first Latin American athlete to finish |
| 0:38.9 | on the podium of Trail Running's biggest race. Building off that momentum a few weeks ago, |
| 0:44.2 | Joaquin won and set a huge course record at the Mount Fuji 100 in Japan, another classic |
| 0:50.1 | 100-mile race winning by more than an hour, turning the heads of a lot of pro athletes and media |
| 0:57.5 | members alike, myself included, clearly making it known that UTMB was no fluke and that |
| 1:04.7 | Joaquin Lopez is a name to watch. It was so fun chatting with him here. Some topics we discuss. Ecuador's amazing and deep, |
| 1:14.3 | rich sporting culture. We talk about the state of Latin American trail running. We talk about having a |
| 1:18.9 | clear purpose and its benefit to performance. We talk about Joaquin's background and adventure |
| 1:23.8 | racing, the 2024 UTMB, and what led to the breakthrough. |
| 1:28.3 | We talked about Joaquin's method for goal setting and race selection, |
| 1:32.3 | the dominant victory at the Mount Fuji 100, |
| 1:35.6 | Joaquin's sponsor, Kylus, his work with the Pro Trail Runners Association, |
| 1:40.6 | and a lot more. |
| 1:42.2 | It was an awesome combo. |
| 1:43.3 | Before we get to it, a reminder to go register for TrailCon. |
| 1:46.5 | Last week, we released the full agenda of our two-day trail running conference, trade show |
| 1:52.0 | and festival, bringing the trail running community together, June 24th and 25th in Palisades, |
| 1:58.1 | Tahoe in between Broken Arrow and Western states. We also just announced that |
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