The data
behind the sport
we love.
Fresh UTMB rankings every week. Movers, fallers, brand splits, country shifts. Plus one long read every other Sunday — about the people, the brands, and the business behind the sport.
Three ways into the data.
This week's movement.
The UTMB Index Top 100, snapshot by snapshot. Who climbed, who fell, which countries are moving.
Open The Ascent →The year's peaks.
The highest single-race UTMB performance scores of the season, by gender, country and distance.
Open The Summit →The deepest fields.
xCI, the Expected Competition Index: how strong a start list is before the gun goes off.
Open The Forecast →Who is the best trail runner in the world?
Two ranking systems, five categories, one big question — who actually shows up on both lists. The overlap tells you a lot about how the sport is structured right now.
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Latest reads.
Uphill Notes is written by Martin Biela — a trail and ultra runner based in Wiesbaden, Germany, near Frankfurt, with 28 years in marketing as a day job. The site is what happens when those two worlds meet: weekly rankings data, brand and athlete stories, and the occasional long read about where this sport is actually heading.
Every other Sunday.
One long read, plus the data.
Rankings, brand moves, athlete stories, and the numbers behind them. No gear reviews, no race reports — just the stuff that actually tells you something.
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