Mountain Talk with Alistair Crompton + Ultramarathon Training Tips
Marathon Training Academy
Angie and Trevor
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
In this episode we speak with Alistair Crompton, a trail guide with Run the Alps, about his latest adventures and what it’s like to run in the Swiss Alps. Plus, Coach Angie shares tips on training for an ultramarathon.
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Switzerland Running Retreat with Angie, Trevor, and Run the Alps.
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Alistair Crompton is a mountain running & trekking guide, yoga teacher, and vegan chef based in Chamonix, France. He is originally from the UK when he’s not running he enjoys skiing and paragliding. Alistair will be one of our guides this year on our Running Retreat in Switzerland
with @RunTheAlps
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| 0:00.0 | Big thanks to the Drury Hotel Company for sponsoring the podcast. |
| 0:03.1 | If you're traveling in the U.S. this year, keep a lookout for one of their locations. |
| 0:06.9 | They've got over 150 locations in 25 states. |
| 0:10.3 | And you can always save 10% on your stay with our link. |
| 0:14.0 | Just go to druryhotels.com slash MTA. |
| 0:16.8 | It's a great place to actually have free food and drinks in the evening. |
| 0:21.6 | It's called the 5.30 kickback. Dreyhotels.com slash MTA. |
| 0:23.6 | Hello and welcome to the Marathon Training Academy podcast, where we help you train smarter and get more out of yourself as a runner. |
| 0:47.4 | In this episode, we speak with Alster Crompton, a trail guide with Run the Alps, about his latest adventures and what it's like to run the Swiss Alps. |
| 0:55.2 | Plus, Coach Angie shares tips on training for an ultra marathon. |
| 0:59.6 | Hey, don't forget you can access all of our back podcast episodes and interviews inside the Academy podcast vault. |
| 1:05.6 | Get access as a member to that and much more. |
| 1:08.3 | You can join by going to Marathon Training Academy.com. We have lots of |
| 1:13.0 | great stuff to get into in this episode. Before we jump into everything, some congrats are in order. |
| 1:19.0 | Yeah, we'd like to say congratulations to Scott, who is an academy member. He ran the New Year's |
| 1:24.1 | One Day Coastal Trail Run, which consisted of him completing 34 miles in six hours. |
| 1:30.8 | He said it's interesting when it comes down to the final hour because you have to finish a full |
| 1:34.7 | loop for it to count. I finished my final lap with a minute left. |
| 1:39.3 | I time that well. Yes, exactly. So congratulations, Scott, on an epic way to start your new year. Well, in this episode, |
| 1:46.3 | we're going to speak with Alistair Crompton. Definitely one of the coolest guys I know. He's a |
| 1:50.4 | international mountain leader and trekking guide. He's also a yoga teacher and vegan chef. He's based |
| 1:56.3 | in Chamonie, France. But originally from the UK, he also loves to paraglide. So he'll talk about running up a |
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