740 Miles, Four Races, One Season: Inside Ashley Paulson's Impossible Year

iFIT Trainer Ashley Paulson is spending this year racing four of the hardest ultramarathons in the world. She's filming all of it. And she's turning the training behind each one into something you can actually do, at whatever distance you're working with right now.

Starting September 21, three things arrive together: a documentary series covering each race, a training series for each one where Ashley walks through how she prepares, and an endurance run club where members log the miles alongside each other.

Here's how it fits together.

Who is Ashley Paulson?

Ashley Paulson is an iFIT Trainer, professional triathlete, and two-time champion of the Badwater 135, the 135-mile race through Death Valley widely considered one of the toughest foot races on the planet. Her 2023 win was the second-fastest women's time in the event's history.

The races

Four races. Roughly 740 miles of racing across a single season.

Tahoe, Bigfoot, and Moab together make up the Triple Crown of 200s, a series only a small number of runners complete in a single year. Tunnel Hill 100 is the outlier: flat, fast, and a completely different kind of hard, run on a converted rail trail in southern Illinois where the challenge is holding pace rather than surviving terrain.

The documentary series: watch what it actually takes

Each race becomes a four-part documentary series, filmed start to finish and streaming only on iFIT.

Not a highlight reel. The parts that don't make highlight reels: the third night without sleep, the aid station where quitting sounds reasonable, the crew work, the recalculating. Ultras are decided in those hours, and they're the hours nobody films.

If you've ever wondered what it’s like to run 240 miles, this is the answer, in four parts, per race.

The training series: do the work with her

The documentary is the part you watch. The training series is the part you do.

For each race, Ashley builds a training series where she walks through how she prepares: what the weekly structure looks like, how she builds volume without breaking, what she does on the days she doesn't want to, and how she thinks about fueling, pacing, and recovery.

The work is scaled. You don't need to be building toward 200 miles to use it, and the series doesn't assume you are. What transfers is the method: how to structure a block, how to progress, and how to hold a plan together across months instead of weeks. Whether your milestone is a first 5K, a first marathon, or a first ultra, the framework is the same one.

That's the difference between watching an athlete and training with one.

The endurance run club: don't do it alone

Endurance training is long, and most of it happens alone. The run club is the answer to that.

Coming soon, Ashley's endurance run club gives members a place to log miles together, follow the same build, and show up for the same weeks. 

The training series tells you what to do. The run club is the part that gets you out the door on the days the plan alone isn't enough.

Why all three, together

Alone, each piece is a different kind of thing. A documentary is entertainment. A training series is instruction. A run club is a community. 

Together, they turn a season of racing into something you participate in rather than watch. When Ashley is at a start line at 4 a.m., you're weeks into your own build. When she crosses the line, you have something of your own to show for it.

That's the whole idea. Her miles are hers. The method is yours.

Start with her

The documentary is worth watching. The training is worth doing. It all starts September 21, 2026.

Run the Impossible Year with Ashley

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