profiles

Everyone has a Why. Our motivations are as varied as our backgrounds, and these passions are what powers adventures big and small.

How Heather Brooks learned to embrace her queer identity on the trail.

Rudy Espinoza, Executive Director of LA’s Inclusive Action for the City, suggests a new model for building diverse and inclusive running communities. 

Four years ago, one of the country's strongest mountain runners disappeared from the world's stage. Now she's back, racing hard - and with a story to tell.

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Check out Trail Runner magazine's author page.

Check out Trail Runner magazine's author page.

In 2015, at age 70, Gunhild Swanson became the oldest woman ever to finish Western States. And boy, did she make it interesting.

Like his father, Joss Naylor is a sheep farmer, but that hasn’t slowed down his running much.

In her first 100-miler, at just 24 years old, Clare Gallagher ran the second-fastest women’s time ever at the Leadville Trail 100, arguably among the most storied trail races in the world.