Autor/-in: Keira D'Amato

Keira D'Amato. is a four-time USATF National Champion: the 2021 women's half-marathon (1:07:55), the 2022 women's 6k (17:52), the 2022 20k (1:04:29), and the 2024 20k (1:06:25). In 2022, she broke a sixteen-year American record in the marathon by running 2:19:12. She holds the world best time in the women's-only 10-mile, and finished 8th at the World Championship Marathon in 2022. She is the proud owner of Potomac River Run & Walk, a specialty running store in Richmond, Virginia. She now lives in Park City with her family. Evelyn Spence. is a veteran outdoors and fitness writer whose work has appeared in Runner's World. , Bicycling. , Backpacker. , Ski. , Sunset. , Outside. , Bloomberg. , Prevention. , and Health. She has been an editor at several National Magazine Award-winning publications and has been honored by the Best American Sports Writing anthology. A longtime athlete, she has run the Boston marathon, finished a half-Ironman, skied with reindeer herders in Mongolia, ridden her bike up Pikes Peak, and carried a 40-pound backpack while participating in the Bataan Memorial Death March. She lives in Seattle with her husband and two children.