Chatting to Rea Kolbl, Martina Valmassoi and Grace Staberg

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Rea Kolbl is a professional athlete, competing in obstacle course racing, adventure racing, trail running, mountain biking, and ski mountaineering. She is the current Spartan Ultra World Champion, 2x World’s Toughest Mudder champion, and undefeated at endurance OCR for race distances 30 miles or longer. She loves outdoor adventure, multisport projects in the mountains, and exploring the world self-propelled. Her biggest adventure yet was the World’s Toughest Race: eco-challenge Fiji, a 670km+ expedition adventure race where her team Canada Adventure finished in 2nd place. When she’s not outside training and exploring, she’s coaching other athletes, cooking, and working on her adventure van.

Instagram:        https://www.instagram.com/reakolbl/

Facebook:         https://www.facebook.com/rkolbl

Website:           https://kolblrea.wordpress.com/

Rea’s record:    13th March 2021, 55,045ft/16,777.72m, beating previous world record of 50,656ft/15,440m

Martina Valmassoi is a mountain lover. She grew up in an active family starting sports early.

She grew up as Nordic skier and then moved to ski mountaineering when she was 17 and became part of the Italian National team for 10 years, until 2016.

After that as she was traveling a lot in summer with her job as a photographer so decided to leave the skimo World Cup but didn’t quite give up racing. She is also a trail runner.

Best results:

Multiple times top 10 in Skimo WC

2 x 3rd place Skimo World Championship, Alpago Tambre 2017 . Team Race and Relay.

7th in the individual 

5 times podium at the Sellaronda Skimarathon.

2 golds and the actual course Record with Laetitia Roux.

2 Silver ( one in mixed team with Anton Krupicka)

1 bronze at my first Sellaronda back in 2013

3 podiums at Pierramenta 

Summer

3th The Rut 50k in 2015 (first long race)

3th Tromso Skyrace 2016

5th Trofeo Kima 2018

2nd 90 km of Marathon du Montblanc in 2019

Instagram:        https://www.instagram.com/martiskka/

Facebook:        https://www.facebook.com/martina.valmassoi

Martina’s record:  22nd March 2021, 57,890.42ft/17,645m, taking the world record after only week

Grace Staberg  is a mountain athlete, competing in skimo racing and trail running. She has multiple World Cup podiums in skimo, 2 World Cup Vertical wins and a silver medal in the Vertical race from World Championships. She loves exploring the mountains and human-powered adventures. When she’s not training or racing she attends the London School of Economics, studying Finance. 

Instagram:        https://www.instagram.com/grace.staberg/

Website:           https://www.gracestaberg.com/

Grace’s record: 26th April 2021, 56,153ft/17,115.43m, taking the North American Women’s Record from Rea