Directing the Trail House

Four trail runners move into a house in Boulder with one goal - find out if they can become professional trail runners.
In Episode 1, we meet the guys behind the Trail House - Dylan, Baden, and Ares - as they move in and start figuring out what it actually takes to chase a pro contract.
For the next 14 months, they’re training together, living together, racing, recovering, and seeing if they can turn trail running into a career.
Welcome to the Trail House.

Three trail runners are settling into life in Boulder and beginning the hard work of trying to become professional athletes.

In this episode, Ares takes his first steps back from injury, Bayden and Dylan explore the Flatirons, and the guys start building their routines around training, strength work, recovery, and the races ahead.

The dream is pretty simple - become professional trail runners but path there is already pretty challenging.

Welcome back to the Trail House :)

Three trail runners are trying to become professional athletes but, it's not an easy road.

In Episode 3 of The Trail House, Bayden learns that the High Five 100 has been cancelled after a whole summer of training. Rather than letting that fitness go to waste, he pivots.

Now the first major races are getting closer, conversations with brands are beginning, and the Trail House experiment is starting to get some momentum - we're stoked to document the journey!

In Episode 4 of The Trail House, Dylan and Bayden are just days away from the Whistler 100K to try to qualify for UTMB next year and are putting in their final workouts before heading to Canada.

With training nearly finished, the focus shifts to everything else that goes into racing 100K well - studying the course, planning crew stops, dialing in mandatory gear, and figuring out fueling.

In Episode 5 of The Trail House, Dylan and Bayden head to Whistler, British Columbia to race the Whistler 100K.

They’ve spent the summer living and training together in Boulder, but this time they’re lining up in the same race with the same goal - finish inside the top three and earn an automatic spot at the World Finals next year.

In Episode 6 of The Trail House, things are starting to get real... Just two months into the project, Dylan has won the Whistler 100K, Bayden came one spot away from qualifying for the World Finals, and Ares has officially made Team USA.

But despite some of the biggest results of their careers, none of them has a professional running contract yet.