Runners
How Shannon Rowbury’s pregnancy while running for Nike led her down two avenues of advocating for women runners. “If you give me lemons, I’ll make the best darn lemonade you’ve ever tasted.”
Business Founders
After years of working in the running industry together, Lauren Osborne and her husband James chose East Nashville to open a running store, where they’ve focused on creating space for connection, belonging, and collaborative art projects.
Runners
A runner all his life and born to be a writer, Martin Dugard shares the places he traveled and the surprising facts he learned while researching his newest book, The Long Run, which documents the events that kickstarted the mid-1970s running boom.
Running Coaches
Running inspires creativity, and creativity inspires running for Jess Hofheimer. She shares how she’s woven both together in her career endeavors.
Running Coaches
Hilary Topper started a blog to share her running journey. Years later, she’s still blogging and is also a certified triathlon, run, and swim coach. Last fall, she released her second book for endurance athletes, "Unlocking the Triathlon," to help others get started in the sport she loves.
Runners
Physical education teacher and coach, Joel Frye is a founding board member of RunJuneteenth and leads the D.C. chapter of a kids running series.
Nonprofit Leaders
After returning from Iraq with PTSD, Army Veteran Chris Raup experienced the many challenges in receiving proper veteran care. In 2024, he launched Warrior Trail Foundation with a commitment to help fellow veterans find mental healing and meaningful community through trail running.
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 more.
Shawn King developed For the Run around the need for more affordable running apparel and a desire to give back to causes that are important to runners.
Access, education, and safety are top priorities for Yo and Antoine, co-founders of Sin Miedo, a BIPOC trail running community in Nashville. They share why including representation in race data is critical in creating a more inclusive trail running space.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.