Distance To Empty Killian Korth is Flagstaff Bound at the 2026 Cocodona 250
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He swept the entire 200-mile Triple Crown in 2025 — Tahoe 200, Bigfoot 200, and Moab 240 — winning all three in dominant fashion. He may also be the only person in Cocodona history whose biggest obstacle isn't the course, the competition, or the sleep deprivation. It's Arizona plants.
In this episode of Flagstaff Bound, Kevin and Peter sit down with Kilian Korth, who opens up about something he's never fully talked through publicly: two Cocodona DNFs caused by a severe allergic reaction that sent him to the ICU after 2023 and forced him off the course in 2024. He's been getting allergy shots. He has a new medication plan. He may or may not be wearing an N95 mask through the section outside Jerome. He is coming for the win anyway.
Kilian talks about what actually changed in 2025 — the aid station efficiency, the nutrition overhaul, the shift away from low-carb racing — and what it felt like to go from someone who DNF'd more 200s than he finished to the best 200-mile season anyone has put together in recent memory. He talks about the creatine sleep deprivation experiment he's planning for race nights, what excites him about the depth of this year's field, and why the pacerless final stretch from the last aid station to the finish is the part of Cocodona he is most looking forward to.
He also reveals a semi-secret Mount to Coast shoe that has not yet been released.
Cocodona 250 kicks off Monday, May 4th at 5 AM Pacific. Follow the action live on the Mountain Outpost YouTube channel.