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The Mountain Races Podcast

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Welcome to the 2026 Taurus Mountain Race

October 12, 2026 · 2 min

Not long now until the start of the inaugural Taurus Mountain Race… With the route under wraps until 11th October and little known about what lies ahead, follow our race coverage for a full taste of what’s in store. Follow…
SRMR 2026 Day 9: A Parallel Universe

August 25, 2026 · 39 min

Day nine of the Silk Road Mountain Race, and the cutoff for CP3 is looming. Riders arriving are salt-stained and the fatigue is setting in — peeling faces, wrecked lips, bodies ripped thin on Coca-Cola and M&Ms, one pair swollen with…
SRMR 2026 Day 8: Where Is My Mind?

August 23, 2026 · 30 min

Day eight, and CP2 is now officially closed. The race clock is past halfway, the field strung out across Kyrgyzstan's high passes on the long haul to their third stamp at Tamga. This year the country has shown its old face: scorching heat…
SRMR 2026 Day 7: Everything At Once

August 22, 2026 · 34 min

Over a week into the eighth Silk Road Mountain Race, and the field has settled into the strange rhythm of life on the road: long days in the elements, time melting, an afternoon gone in a breath and a hard minute stretching on forever…
SRMR 2026 Day 6: Middle of Somewhere

August 21, 2026 · 21 min

Past Naryn and into the long, braided sweep of the Burkhan valley, the riders climb toward the Arabel Pass — 3,800 metres of loose switchbacks that has them off their bikes and pushing after more than 1,300 kilometres in the legs. Arabel…

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SRMR 2026 Day 5: All Over The Map

August 20, 2026 · 32 min

Nearly a week into the eighth Silk Road Mountain Race, and the field is all over the map. Checkpoint One at Son Kul closed on Wednesday with 146 riders inside the cut, worn down by 47-degree heat, endless climbing, and the countless…
SRMR 2026 Day 4: Flat Out

August 20, 2026 · 1 min

As is so often the case in Kyrgyzstan and at the Silk Road Mountain Race… things rarely go to plan. We set out with the best intentions this morning to bring you all the stories. But as they say, shit happens. Today it came in the form of…
SRMR 2026 Day 3: Son Kul

August 18, 2026 · 36 min

Three days into the eighth Silk Road Mountain Race, we climb to three thousand meters and the still, impossibly blue shore of Lake Son Kul, where Checkpoint 1 sits waiting at the yurt camp of Sarybulak. The riders arrive late into the…
SRMR 2026 Day 2: The Pendulum Swings

August 17, 2026 · 35 min

On the second day of Silk Road Mountain Race 2026 we set out early in search of the leading women. We hear from riders as they push into the Karakol Valley, as well as the leading men arriving at Checkpoint 1. Over the past two days many…
SRMR 2026 Day 1: A Dream Alive

August 16, 2026 · 24 min

The eighth edition of the Silk Road Mountain Race is underway! We hear from riders at the startline and on their way up the first long climb. For many this has been years in the making, and now the racing is officially underway — the…
SRMR 2026: Day Zero

August 15, 2026 · 36 min

We begin the eighth Silk Road Mountain Race in Talas, a small town tucked in a green valley in Kyrgyzstan's far northwest, walled off from the rest of the country by mountains and best known as the birthplace of the hero Manas. We hear…
Welcome to Silk Road Mountain Race 2026

August 13, 2026 · 2 min

Silk Road Mountain Race begins 15th August, 2026 at 09:00 local time. Beginning in Tala and finishing on the shores of Issyk-Kul in Cholpon Ata, riders will embark on a route of over 2000km and 35,000m in elevation — the longest route to…