Katie Schide is a professional trail runner for The North Face from the US, living in France. Katie is one of the most well known and established trail runners in the world: she’s just been awarded the second place of the Trail Runner of the Year Award presented by Freetrail, and as well as the second place of the historic Ultra Runner of the Year Award by Ultrarunning Magazine. She’s a 2021 UTMB winner, a 2023 Western States runner up, with a time that would have won every edition but last year, she also placed second at OCC and she won Diagonal de Fous in 2023, besides a long list of world class performances in the past years in her resume. Katie currently lives in the Mercantour region of the French Alps with her partner, elite trail runner himself, Germain Grangier. She’s a geologist, and she loves spending long days moving through the mountains – whether that be running, skiing, biking, or a combination of all three. In this episode we talk about Katie’s training and approach to racing, dealing with sponsors, media and brands, living in France and about the current state of the sport of trail running. Follow Katie on Instagram and Strava _____________________________ Follow ⁠⁠⁠@vert.run⁠⁠⁠ on IG Download our app and sign up to our training plans on ⁠⁠⁠vert.run⁠⁠⁠ You can send us a message with any questions for us or for our guests! ⁠⁠⁠https://anchor.fm/vertrun/message⁠⁠⁠ Francesco's links: ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠Strava⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠Website⁠⁠⁠