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.
Anton Krupicka
Anton Krupicka ran his first marathon in 1996 and first ultramarathon in 2006. In addition to running, he is a fervid climber, cyclotourist and backcountry skier living in Boulder, CO.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.Clare Gallagher
Clare Gallagher is an ultrarunner and environmental advocate living in Boulder, Colorado. After studying the impacts of climate change on coral reefs at Princeton, she transitioned to running long in the mountains.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 ran her first ever ultra on January 1, 2004, at a Fat Ass 50k event in Vancouver, BC. She was immediately hooked on trail and ultrarunning, and has managed to make it to the finish line of over 50 ultras and marathons to date. Supported by several sponsors including Salomon and Clif Bar, Ellie balances her own training and racing with coaching runners of all abilities online for Sharman Ultra. Ellie’s racing highlights include a course record win at Western States in 2012, a first place finish at South Africa’s Comrades 89k and winning the IAU World 100k Championships in 2014.Erika Hoagland
Erika is the Contributing Editor for UltraRunning magazine. She grew up as a soccer player in Portland, OR but turned to ultrarunning when she moved to the Bay Area after receiving her Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from Chapman University. She continues to work part-time as a PT, primarily with the elderly. Erika ran her first ultra in 2008 and has now completed over 30 ultras of distances ranging from 50K to 100 miles. The 100K and 100-mile distance are her favorite.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.Jazmine Lowther
Jazmine Lowther is a biologist, professional trail runner and ultrarunning coach. She is on the environmental boards of the Pro Trail Runners Association. You can fi nd her running mountains between Nelson, BC, and Canmore, AB, Canada.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.Liza Howard
Liza Howard is a long-time ultrarunner and harried mom living in San Antonio, TX. Her racing highlights include winning the Leadville 100 twice and winning the USATF 50-mile Road Championships in 2017 and the 100k in 2018. She divides her time between teaching for NOLS Wilderness Medicine, directing the Band of Runners non-profit and coaching for Sharman Ultra and being a busy mom.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.Maggie Guterl
Maggie Guterl has been ultrarunning since 2011. She would have started two years earlier but bad advice prevented her from signing up. (First piece of advice: surround yourself with friends who encourage you to do dumb stuff.) Since then, she has had some good results and some bad results. She may or may not have learned some things. Not all of the advice will be useful but all of it will be entertaining.Max King
Max King lives in Bend with his wife and kids and is still living life like there’s no tomorrow. Entering every possible event, he can to keep FOMO at bay as long as possible. His wife keeps wondering why he just keeps adding new races to the calendar but never replaces the old ones he’s been doing for years. She’s also wondering why they can’t take a vacation without it involving a race.Meghan Canfield
Meghan Canfield and her farm animals live in Corvallis, OR, where she works as a virtual coach at Zenith Coaching. She’s a four-time Olympic Marathon Trials qualifier and has 10 top-10 finishes at Western States.Nick Tiller
Dr. Nick Tiller is an exercise scientist and author of The Skeptic’s Guide to Sports Science, named one of Book Authority’s “Best Sports Science Books of All Time.” He’s a columnist at UltraRunning Magazine, an elected Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, and an avid ultramarathon runner. www.nbtiller.com
Olivia Affuso
Olivia Affuso, PhD, FACSM is an adventurer, ultrarunner, writer, and wellness coach. She stumbled into ultra running 10 years ago and has completed three 100 mile races and over 25 ultra marathons. When not running or pacing, Olivia conducts physical activity research at the UAB School of Public Health.Pete Kostelnick
Pete Kostelnick is a numbers guy from northeast Ohio who finds balance as a HOKA and Squirrel’s Nut Butter athlete, and specializes in races of over 100 miles, and occasionally finds time to cross continents on foot. He is also a coach with the Chaski Endurance Collective.Ryan Montgomery
Born and raised in the misty, forested Pacific Northwest, Ryan always loved exploring the outdoors. His running career started in middle school in Alaska when he participated in cross country. Ryan, now living in Park City, Utah, runs professionally for Altra Running and enjoys the 100-mile+ race distances. As a gay, queer athlete, he is passionate about creating a community for LGBTQ athletes and driving diversity awareness in the sport of ultra-trail running.Ryan Cronin
Born in Switzerland but raised just north of Boston, Ryan Cronin started running his senior year of college after losing a bet to his best friend. More than 10 years later, he is hooked and has run and raced distances ranging from the 1600m to a 100-miler and Ironman. During the winter he is an avid skier and in the summer, he can be found camping, fishing and climbing along the Wasatch Front. He lives on a steep hill in Salt Lake City with his wife, two dogs and five chickens.Scotty Sandow
Scotty has over 20-years of experience in the audio production industry. Career highlights include; executive producer of a top-rated morning talk show, co-founding an influential ultra-running podcast, launching the California Department of Public Health’s podcast and co-hosting an award-winning podcast for Placer County; The Placer Life. Scotty also consults with new podcast hosts – sharing his bag of tricks to launch podcasts. He lives in the Sacramento area with his daughter, Emma and dog, Cork.Sarah Lavender Smith
Sarah Lavender Smith lives and runs near Telluride, Colorado, and publishes “Mountain Running & Living,” a weekly newsletter at sarahrunning.substack.com.Sean Meissner
Sean Meissner has been coaching runners of all ages and abilities, and distances and terrain, since 2002. He is the founder of the Peterson Ridge Rumble and has over 250 (ultra)marathon finishes. Sean coaches through Sharman Ultra, and works and plays, mostly with his dogs, in the mountains surrounding Durango, CO.Travis Macy
Travis Macy is a speaker, author, coach, and professional endurance athlete. Author of The Ultra Mindset: An Endurance Champion’s 8 Core Principles for Success in Business, Sports, and Life, he holds the record for Leadman and has finished over 120 ultra distance events in 17 countries. Travis lives with his wife and two young children in the mountains around Evergreen, Colorado, and is sponsored by HOKA ONE ONE, among others. He wants to use “get better” goals in 2016 to keep improving as a husband and father. He hosts The Travis Macy Show podcast.