Andrew Miller
Andrew Miller lives in Oregon where he enjoys running and volunteering on the local trails. Andrew has won 16 ultramarathons, including the 2016 Western States 100, and works as a running coach at andrewmillercoaching.com.Amy Rusiecki
Amy Rusiecki is a full-time engineer with a passion for ultrarunning. During her ultrarunning career (Amy has completed 82 ultras and has won 33 of them), she has found confidence, joy and her husband. She is the RD for the Vermont 100 and coaches other ultrarunners through The Run Formula. She is a three-time member of the USA Trail Team, and is sponsored by Inov-8 and Drymax. Amy, her husband and their kitty live in western Massachusetts and mainly race throughout the East Coast.
Buzz Burrell
Buzz Burrell is sometimes described as a running legend. That’s because he supposedly did something, but it was so long ago nobody can remember what it was. He also was manager of the La Sportiva Mountain Running Team, the VP in charge of Ultimate Direction and co-founded Fastest Known Time.
Cliff Pittman
Cliff Pittman (@coachcliffpittman) is the Coaching Development Director and serves on the Leadership Team for CTS, along with certifications in ultrarunning coaching, executive coaching, and sports nutrition coaching, Cliff integrates his expertise into evidence based narratives that equip and develop readers. He lives in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Darcie Murphy
Darcie Murphy began coaching with CTS in the early 2000s at the same time she was racing bikes semi-professionally. She transitioned her focus to trail and ultrarunning after starting a family, and weaved ski instruction and a NASM strength certification into the mix. Her curiosity to expand the limits of the human mind and body combined with her enthusiasm for mentoring new-to-the-sport athletes drives her commitment to her craft as a coach and athlete. You can find her coaching information at trainright.com.
Dave Cieslowski, PT, DPT
Dave has worked closely with many high-level athletes in the running world. He specializes in biomechanics and motor control of proper running and spent four years as the PT for the US Nordic combined team. Dave was a high-level cross-country ski racer in college and on the US national circuit and has competed in ultras at the 50k, 50-mile and 100-mile distances. He practices at Therapeutic Associates in Bend, Oregon.
Dean Karnazes
Named by TIME magazine as one of the “Top 100 Most Influential People in the World,” Dean Karnazes is a passionate ultrarunner and extreme athlete. He’s run across the Sahara in 120-degree temperatures, and he’s run a marathon to the South Pole in negative 40 degrees. On ten different occasions he’s run a 200-mile relay race solo, racing alongside teams of twelve. Dean has swum the San Francisco Bay, scaled mountains, bike raced for 24-hours straight, and surfed the gigantic waves off the coast of Northern California and Hawaii. He lives with his wife and family in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Donald Buraglio
Donald is a physical therapist, California native, barefoot aficionado, and father of three with more than 25 years of experience in endurance sports. He was a collegiate rower at UCLA, then dabbled in marathons and Ironman-distance triathlons before falling in love with ultras in the early 2000s. His favorite locations to run include Marin County, CA, and the Sierra Nevada mountains, and he loves exploring America’s National Parks. When he’s not training for ultramarathons, he enjoys hiking or slacklining with his family in Monterey County, CA.
Drew Dinan
Drew Dinan traded the tropics of the Florida Keys for the trails of Bend, OR. Once living the Jimmy Buffett lifestyle, working on fishing boats and owning only a single pair of flip flops, he now has way too many running shoes in his closet and never hears the end of it from his loving wife. He is on a constant quest to find the best happy hours, likes to complain when it’s cold outside, and one day hopes to travel the country writing reviews on chicken wings.
Ellie Greenwood
Ellie Greenwood is an online coach at sharmanultra.com. She previously held the course record at Western States, is a two-time IAU World 100k champ and has also won Comrades Marathon in South Africa. A Scot turned Canadian, Ellie lives and trains on the trails and tarmac of North Vancouver, BC.
Gary Cantrell
Gary Cantrell writes the “View From the Open Road” column. Gary has written for UltraRunning more or less continuously since his column “From the South” first appeared in Volume 1, Number 1 back in May of 1981. He is perhaps most well-known as the founder of the Barkley, a trail race in eastern Tennessee. (Although some would comment that it isn’t really a race, and others would add that those aren’t really trails.) He is also the founder of the Strolling Jim 40 Mile and periodically organizes a 314-mile run across Tennessee, the Vol State Road Race. He is currently the race director of the Backyard Ultra. In the real world he works as an accountant.
Gary Dudney
Gary Dudney writes the “Running Wise” column. A native of Kansas, he followed his Polish wife to a job located in Monterey, California in 1982 and signed on as a Technology Project Manager at CTB/McGraw-Hill. Unbeknownst to him at the time, he had landed in the center of prime Northern California ultrarunning territory. Over two hundred ultras later, he still finds every race a fresh and unique experience, evident in the dozens of quirky race reports he’s submitted to UltraRunning over the years. He’s also published a raft of short stories in magazines such as Boys’ Life, Highlights for Children, Boys’ Quest, and several lit magazines. He’s also the author of two running book The Tao of Running: Your Journey to Mindful and Passionate Running and The Mindful Runner: Finding Your Inner Focus available on Amazon or at Barnes & Noble online. Visit his website at: thetaoofrunning.com.
Gaël Dutigny
Gaël was born in France, lived for many years in Mexico, and only embraced ultra-running in college. As a journalist, he has traveled extensively and lived in Italy and India for many years. A 4-time UTMB, 10-time Marathon Des Sables, and 17-time Ironman triathlon finisher, he is now based out of Southern California, where he bakes daily croissants for his American wife, and raises their little zoo composed of a black cat, a gentle snake, a biting bearded dragon and an even more dangerous Chihuahua named Vasquez Joséphine Kiwi.
Ian Sharman
Ian Sharman is an ultrarunning coach with USATF and NASM certification. He is on the Altra Running Team and has represented England for ultrarunning. He only started running in 2005 but quickly got addicted to races and became a student of the sport, interested in all types of running terrain and style of event.
In particular, Ian loves to explore the world through running and has raced in six continents with almost 200 marathon and ultra finishes. Some highlights include setting the record for the Grand Slam of Ultrarunning in 2013, during which he won the Leadville Trail 100. He also set the fastest North American 100-mile trail time at his Rocky Raccoon 100 course record of 12:44.
Jared Beasley
Jared Beasley is a New York-based author and journalist. His 2019 book In Search of Al Howie was chosen by Kirkus Reviews as one of the best indie books of the year.
Jason Koop
Jason Koop is the author of Training Essentials for Ultrarunning and Coaching Director for CTS. Over his 15-year career as a coach he has worked with novice, age-group and elite ultrarunners, including Kaci Lickteig, Timothy Olson and Dylan Bowman. As Coaching Director, Jason oversees the performance and continuing education of more than 50 coaches. For information on CTS coaching and training camps, visit trainright.com.Jeff Kozak
Jeff Kozak discovered the mountains and trails through childhood summers spent at the family cabin in California’s Eastern Sierra. A passion for distance running ignited on the cross country courses and tracks of high school in Ohio. After the college years, also known as a directionless tour of the sciences culminating with a Psychology degree, the twin loves of the alpine and running quickly merged at the 1997 Baldy Peaks 50K, the first of nearly 100 ultras over the past two decades. The competitive fire still burns, but is increasingly tempered by adventure running, fastpacking and giving back to the sport that has given so much. He lives in the rainshadow of the Sierra Nevada in Bishop, CA with his girlfriend, Margo, and can be reached at [email protected].
John Medinger
John Medinger is the former publisher of UltraRunning magazine and continues as correspondent at large. A retired investment banker, he had previously worked as a business development manager and as a chemical engineer. He holds degrees from Oregon State University and MIT. John took up running in 1974 and ran his first ultra in 1980. He has now completed more than 130 ultras – most of them in California, but also in places as diverse as New Zealand and Scotland. Never an elite runner, he was somewhat faster than average early in his career but now finds himself materially closer to the back of the pack. He is the founder of the Quad Dipsea, and also founded and continues to direct the Lake Sonoma 50. He has served on the Board of Trustees of the Western States 100 since 1992.
Jodi Weiss
Jodi Weiss has been running ultras for the last decade, and to date has completed 35 races of 100 miles or more, and dozens of 50Ks, 50 milers, 100Ks and 24-hour races. She loves hot-weather races, making Badwater 135, Javelina Jundred, and Keys 100 her favorite races, with multiple finishes at each. When she’s not running races, she loves to write about races and interview her running superheroes. In her professional life, she leads the Nonprofit and Higher Education Practice at Korn Ferry, a global consulting firm, and is a professor of literature and writing at various colleges and universities. She’s currently working on her second novel, Exit 11N.John Trent
John Trent is past president and longtime board member of the Western States 100-Mile Endurance Run. He is a 10-time WS 100 finisher and has been involved in the sport as a journalist, organizer, race director and volunteer since 1987. A two-time Nevada Sportswriter of the Year, he lives in Reno, Nevada, with his ultrarunning family – wife Jill and daughters Annie and Katie.
Kamm Prongay
Kamm Prongay addresses the unique nutritional and training needs of female masters athletes and the science behind the changes, providing evidence-based strategies for building and maintaining strength and endurance.Lucy Bartholomew
Lucy Bartholomew is a 23-year-old Australian who travels to follow the sun and fuels her life with plants. After running her first 100k at 15 years old, she has been hooked on the sport, the community and smiling through the challenges.