Lucy Bartholomew Interview (2025 UTMB Week)

Singletrack

Finn Melanson

Wilderness, Trail Running, Sports, Sports News, Mountain Running, Running, Ultrarunning, Ultra Running, News, Ultramarathon

5 • 897 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Text us your thoughts about this episode or ideas for future episodes! Lucy Bartholomew has been a model of consistency at UTMB in recent years, steadily raising her game as women’s ultrarunning enters a new era of performance. In this conversation, we cover a wide range of topics—from one of the most exciting 100-milers in her backyard (the GPT100), to her experience crewing Ryan Sandes at the Cocodona 250, to Salomon’s High Performance System, and her own process for chasing the next level ...

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	All right, we are back day five of our coverage and conversation celebrating the 2025 Ultra Trail
0:06.4	de Montblanc and the UTNB World Series. QuickStation ID. Thank you to our partners, NAC, NERDA,
0:12.3	Goreware, and Rade for making this coverage possible. I was going to say keeping the lights on.
0:17.4	And actually, in this case, it is correct. we've got all of our blockage of the windows
0:22.1	for sun and stuff it's looking good in here and joined by lucy bartholomey lucy great to have you here
0:27.7	how are you doing today yeah i'm good i'm super stoked to be here and uh yeah i can't wait to chat
0:32.4	i told you that this could be a roller coaster conversation in the sense that it's not going to be
0:37.1	all utmb and where i want to start is with grampians okay I told you that this could be a roller coaster conversation in the sense that it's not going to be all UTMB.
0:38.4	And where I want to start is with Grampians.
0:37.1	Okay. The GTP-T-100. Yeah. I bet you didn't expect that one. Well, you're coming out for it. Well, I think I am. Are we allowed to drop that here? I think I am. I think I'm coming out in early November. and you had a pretty wild experience.
0:39.1	The race got canceled due to weather.
0:56.8	Like, talk about that experience. early November and you had a pretty wild experience there. The race got canceled due to weather.
1:02.4	Like, talk, just talk about that experience. Yeah. So this race has, it's a, this will be its third year.
1:08.7	First year, they had hectic rainstorms, crewing the runner who won. I was crewing Michael Dunstan. I had a tree branch fly, shatter my windscreen
1:12.6	off my car while crewing. They had to be stopped because of lightning. And then last year when I did it,
1:18.8	we were stopped due to just incredible heat. And it was actually, it wasn't a race decision. It was
1:25.0	the local hospital's decision. it was full of people needing
1:28.6	IVs and just they were at capacity so I myself got to like 15 miles to the finish line so
1:36.8	in smelling distance um but it was the right call it was a really challenging conditions it was
1:43.2	yeah on that brink of unhealthy.
1:45.6	And, yeah, I was just grateful to get what I got in.
1:48.8	And it's a hard rock qualifier now.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Finn Melanson, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Finn Melanson and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.