Kilian’s Quest starts into the second season. In the first short film, there are some impressive images of Kilian’s winter season and great running impressions from his first kilometers of trailrunning this year in Provence.

Trailrunning in its purest form: park the gripmobile next to an unknown forest, head straight into the woods and from then on just follow the landscape where it’s the most fun…

The film about Stephan and Babsi Tassani’s record run around the world-famous lake in Berchtesgaden, Bavaria. Can you run around the Königsse in under six hours? And – if so, how fast can it actually be done? The answer, and some of the most awesome landscapes in the german Alps, as well as hairraising highspeed [...]

Here it is, the Gripmaster’s director’s cut of the Transalpine Run 2009. Eight days, 500 runners, the Alps…. an epic undertaking which, at it’s fifth edition was tackling the fabulous western route from Oberstdorf to Latsch again. The day before the race, intimidating rainfalls threatened to spoil the party, but at the start, the sun [...]

South Africa’s most successful desert runner is a shooting star. Ryan Sandes from Capetown came out of nowhere when in 2008, he scored a start-to-finish victory at the „4 Deserts Gobi March”… Gripmaster got to go for a run with him on Sandman’s rest day for a few hours and used the opportunity for a [...]

3 days of trail shoe testing in Riva del Garda in Italy… 3 runners ran 280 kilometers to check out the newest models from all over the world. It was hard work but very interesting! The full test is in the new TRAIL Magazine on february 1st: www.trail-magazin.de Here’s a look behind the scenes:

Storm “Daisy” has neglected us for the whole weekend and only provided the rest of Europe with that fun fluffy accessory, snow… But finally! It’s snowing…. So it’s time to hit the trails and get those new Icebug SISU shoes dirty…. First on the trail, again! Northern Germany has blocked freeways…here, Daisy is filling up [...]

In all of Europe, winter makes an impressive entrance, only here in the bavarian Alps, he seems to be taking a break… While northern Germany, France and England are battling the powder, we are running on a mixture of ice, old snow and frozen mud, through thick fog that first covers our glasses with haze [...]

Today I went for a run with a guy whose photo is in the current issue of GQ magazine! Yeah right, you say.. who might that be? Is Di Caprio jogging on the beach? Did some supermodel residing in Camps Bay give the Gripmaster a call to ask me to come over for a run [...]

At least it wasn’t sleeping last night, when nine headlamp-equipped Trailrunners blasted through the trails on Devil’s Peak. Leading man Roger cut corners at right angles and the last runner was still eating the dust from the first…. Five of us were Skyrunners and as such active at night by defition… The Goblin runs up [...]