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Ultimate Direction 2026 Race Vests Previews: Race, Adventure, and Ultra Packs
Dec 4, 2025
Running/race hydration vests: product presentation by Nate Mitka
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All right. So, uh, this is, uh, Dom
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Lfield for Road Trade Trail Run. I'm
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here at the running event in San
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Antonio, Texas. Uh, I'm here at the
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Ultimate Direction booth with Nate
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Mitka.
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Yeah. So,
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Nate, if you could just take us through
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your product.
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Absolutely. Yeah. I'm the marketing
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manager here at Ultimate Direction and
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we have a couple of packs to show you
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guys. Uh, they're all sort of built off
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of the same philosophy
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um, and different leaderages and sort of
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feature sets depending on the pack. So
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we have our race adventure here and then
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ultra packs and they all have uh
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very similar front sort of chassis uh
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which follows through each side. There's
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subtle differences from pack to pack but
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um the race and the ultra vests they
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came out in 2025 and the race is more
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designed for your sub ultra to
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ultramarathon or maybe a road marathon.
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It has six lers of storage. Um, it's a
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little bit more built down, but it comes
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with two 500 mil soft flasks. It has
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cell phone storage in the front, goose,
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gels, snacks, whatever you might need.
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Optional removable bungee carry, and
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then optional reservoir carry in the
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back as well. Um, our favorite thing
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that you'll find on all of these packs,
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or my favorite thing from a
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functionality standpoint, is what we
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call the dynamic fit. So, the bulk of
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the vest is made of this monomesh liner,
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and this is going to be breathable and
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comfortable next to skin, but it's a
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static material, so it doesn't stretch
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that much. But you'll notice on the
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sides, we have these two stretch mesh
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panels uh patterned into the side, and
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this is a two-way directional stretch.
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So, it's going to stretch laterally, but
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not vertically. And what I mean, I've
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tested this thing a bunch, but what that
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translates to is when you're running and
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maybe you've uh really loaded down your
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pack and it's expanding, that stretch
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panel is going to accommodate that and
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it's not going to be uncomfortable. It's
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not going to feel constricting or if
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you're really sucking wind on a climb
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and your lungs are really expanding in
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terms of capacity, the vest is going to
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stretch with you. Um, it's not going to
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feel like it's constricting you or not
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or like limiting your breathing or
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anything like that. like I've really
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noticed that on uphills. Um, but it
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doesn't stretch up and down. So, you're
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not going to get as much of a bounce
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effect, which a lot of stretch fabric
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causes with your soft flasks or your
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bladder in the back because most of the
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pack is that monomesh. And this is just
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directional two-way. So, it stretches,
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you know, torsionally, not vertically.
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And you'll find that on all of these
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packs, um, which came out once again.
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This one is 2025 2025. The adventure
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vest is the newness for 2026.
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And this has an additional zippered
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pocket on the front. Uh similar, you
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know, two soft last carry in the front,
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but it has a way more built out back
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panel that you can see here. So, it has
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a nine hook closure, roll top closure on
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the top. It fits way more stuff. You
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know, maybe you're carrying a rope. Uh
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there's side compression here uh for
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cinching down whatever you might be
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carrying in the side. It has these two
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huge carriage pockets uh and then an
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additional pocket here. And this is
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going to be more geared towards the
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adventure. So, it's called the adventure
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vest for a reason. Maybe you're doing an
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FKT. Maybe you're doing a 2-day run or
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3-day run, hut to hut, something like
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that where you just need way more gear.
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Um, and this is coming out in spring of
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2026. That's the adventure vest. But, as
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you can see, the product line has a lot
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of the same design philosophy. We're
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really excited about it. We think it
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sort of has catapulted us into a more
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modern and fresh look. Um, and like all
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of our products at UD, it's tested by
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athletes for athletes. That's been our
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mantra since day one. Um, and we're
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really pumped about the vests.
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Nice. And what is the uh weight com uh
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difference between the three products
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here?
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Yeah. So, I don't know the weights
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exactly. Uh, one of them is 300 gram. I
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don't know exactly, but we have all that
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information online.
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Uh price is 155 for the six, 175 here,
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and then 195 for the adventure.
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And they all come with the soft flasks.
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They all come with two 500ml soft
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flasks. Yes. And they're all reservoir
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compatible as well in the back.
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And unisex sizing.
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Yeah. And they have unisex sizing.
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Everything from extra small up to extra
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large um to fit, you know, a wide range
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of body types. So, five different sizes
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per
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Yep. Yeah. Per vest. Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Thank you so much.
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Yeah, of course.