Featured Runner “QuynhAnh Nguyen” January 2017
QuynhAnh Nguyen (in her own words): First off, I’d like to say I feel very under-qualified to be chosen as the Featured UltraRunner this month. I was a little hesitant, at first, to be honest. But then, I realized there are other runners out there that might be where I am- at the beginning of […]
Featured Runner “Eric Shebesta” December 2016
Eric Shebesta (in his own words): I’m just an average guy. I grew up in Colorado and relocated to Missouri in 2001. I’ve been married to my wife, Lori for 23 years. Ever since I was a kid I was always in awe of endurance sports, such as the Tour de France, Ironman, etc. Although […]
Featured Runner “Jana Patzkowski Graham” November 2016
Jana Graham (in her own words): I didn’t start running until after I turned 50 and really didn’t run much outside of races until after my first marathon, the Half and Half in Tulsa in 2012. I met all of these wonderful, crazy people that were running things called “ultras” and it sounded like such […]
Featured Runner “Tom Rogers” October 2016
Tom Rogers (in his own words): I am an ordinary 45 year old man whom serves an extraordinary God. I was introduced to running as a teen and was a very average cross country runner. As a young adult, I began my downward spiral of drug and alcohol abuse, eventually living in my car for […]
Featured Runner “Polly Choate” September 2016
Polly Choate (in her own words): I started running about 15 years ago. I fell in love with it when I discovered trails. Mother Nature…the people…the escape…every single aspect of it. Trail and ultrarunning is an opportunity to think, to feel…to experience life in its simplest form. Heading out on a run, with virtually nothing […]
