If you know the annual Leadville Trail 100 Mile in Colorado, then you know the Hope Pass aid station is one of the places runners fuel and water up during the race. Runners hit this aid station twice during the out-and-back event: once on the outbound at about mile 43 and again on the inbound at mile 57. … [Read more...]
WeRunFar Profile: Noé Castañón
Noé Castañón is a Mexican-American runner who embodies our ethos of hard work, compassion, and generosity. Learn about the unique community bridge he builds for the sport as a dual-citizen racer and non-profit owner. … [Read more...]
WeRunFar: Derrick Lytle
Derrick Lytle specializes in covering races, shooting runners on trail, and reporting narratives with environmental stories. He’s also an engine for awe-inspiring nighttime and time-lapse photography as well as documentary film. … [Read more...]
WeRunFar: Ali Pottinger and Kerry Suter
The New Zealand duo fell in love and rapidly dove into co-creating a coaching business that's become the community hub for trail runners throughout Australasia. … [Read more...]
WeRunFar Profile: Megan Finnesy
Megan Finnesy, race director of the Golden Gate Dirty 30 and Silverton Ultra Marathon, dawned in the sport of ultrarunning when she adventitiously volunteered for the 2008 Hardrock 100. For the past decade, she's been a community pioneer from trail adoption to event creation and volunteer work. … [Read more...]
WeRunFar Profile: Joyce and Joe Prusaitis
The story of long-time trail race directors and trail runners Joyce and Joe Prusaitis is as much a love story as it is a story about trail running. It was love and running that led them to each other, to co-founding one of the USA’s earliest trail-race companies called Tejas Trails, and to making a lasting … [Read more...]
WeRunFar Profile: Jamil Coury
Jamil 'Jam Jam' Coury is a multi-talented leader in the trail running and ultrarunning community. We're just as likely to see him at the start line of a 100 miler as we are rapping in a spoof film or hopping on a flight to Chamonix, France to film UTMB. Simply put, he's all in. … [Read more...]
WeRunFar Profile: Jim Skaggs
The 1993 ultrarunnning scene was even more inconspicuous than now. That laidback, underground vibe is what initially attracted and hooked Jim Skaggs, who has since become one of the most successful and understated leaders in the trail community. … [Read more...]
WeRunFar Profile: Megan and David Roche
Blending scientific research and life philosophy, the Roches’ primary focus is to teach runners of all abilities and backgrounds about the exercise of being happy while we run and to not define ourselves by the inevitable rollercoaster along the way. SWAP--Some Work, All Play-- rapidly grew from its … [Read more...]