Business Founders
Co-founder of Pao Labs, Zack Yu, shares the story behind developing a new running fuel brand, including its jelly consistency and Asian-inspired flavors, plus how they involved the running community in product testing and feedback.
Business Founders
Committed to the notion that youth running and sports should be about having fun, Joanie Kaijala developed Running Peas, a running apparel line for kids.
Run Club Leaders
Detroit runners Joe Robinson and Lance Woods launched WeRun313 to share the mental health benefits of running with their community. It quickly sparked the start of more social fitness groups and brand partnerships focused on increasing access to the sport for local runners.
Runners
From competitive cyclist to ultramarathon runner, Dana Bandy is an advocate for staying active lifelong. After a knee injury reduced his running, he remains involved as the registration director for a 50K and a volunteer for nearly every race in Missoula.
Business Founders
When April Pullins began running, movement ignited her creativity and sparked the idea to launch Be Light Compression. Now, she’s motivating other women to rediscover their creative sides.
Business Founders
After decades of raising children, running, music, and navigating grief, Jenny Maxwell, co-founder of the original PowerBar, returned to her kitchen to create a new energy bar.
Nonprofit Leaders
Ultrarunner, running coach, and founder of Women In Ultrarunning, Rachel Bambrick breaks down the reasons women are less likely to run ultras, plus how her nonprofit is making the sport more accessible and welcoming.
Get to know the runners, run club leaders, and small business and nonprofit founders who are shaping the running community. Plus, dive into a roundup of running-related podcasts, news, and reels.
Coach Randy Taylor leads group and individual run coaching and also organizes several annual races in Kansas City with formats that level the playing field among paces.
Founder of sweaty ponytales, a greeting card line for runners, Julie Justison says it’s the experiences she’s had over the years and the friends she’s made that keep her running.
Baltimore’s Susan Clayton shares the inspiration behind her running mitten company, RunMitts, and her perspectives on going your own pace, both in running and in running a business.
Once a solo runner chasing a checkmark on her bucket list, Sharon Tejada found belonging in Philadelphia’s running community. She helps lead Queer Run and Team Philly Race Training, and recently became a run coach through PWRHER’D’s Game Changers program.
Running offers a vehicle toward change, if we lean into it. Zander Chase, executive director of Wander Project, shares how the organization’s charity bibs provide opportunities for race participants to run for a greater purpose.
Jackie Hoffman, founder of Peace Runners 773, is leading the charge on health equity advocacy and running programs in Chicago’s historically disinvested neighborhood of Garfield Park.
How posting workouts to social media for accountability opened the doors to Chicago’s running community for Keegan Kok.
Supporting runners in their mental health journeys, Still I Run leads in-person and virtual programs that provide runners with community, education, and the gear they need to keep moving forward. Founder Sasha Wolff shares the organization's story.
It’s part run club, part book club. Founder Allison Yates leads Read & Run Tours to help runners get to know their cities and one another.
Training shouldn’t be miserable. Team Playmakers‘ Coach Anna Zang shares the importance of enjoying what you’re doing and who you’re with, and how it boosts your performance.
Marie "Lootie" Leautey, the fastest woman to complete a world run, shares why experience mattered most along the journey and how self-imposed limitations keep us from achieving more.
Founders of MRC Reno share how Mikkeller Running Club forms communities of people with shared interests in running and beer, and encourages run club tourism.