Chasing the Cutoff with Troy Eid

Famed coach Lauren Callahan – sports nutritionist, wellness guru, and Reiki Master – explores practical fueling and hydration strategies to help guide your next 200-mile-plus ultramarathon. One of the country’s most respected experts on improving “gut health,” Lauren draws inspiration from her own ultramarathoning and Ironman experiences. She uses the Crossing Switzerland 400 K – the next race on...

Colonel Phil Lowry (Montana Army National Guard) – Director and Counsel for Cybersecurity & Privacy at Western Union – has raced 20 officially sanctioned 200-mile-plus ultramarathons, along with nearly a hundred 100-mile trail races.  He’s the only person in history to finish all three races in the Destination Trail annual “Triple Crown” series of 200-mile ultras – the Tahoe 200, Bigfoot 200,...

Everyone participating in a BADWATER race – the iconic ultramarathon series created and produced by Chris Kostman, the sport’s most consequential race director – receives a welcoming smile from Erika Small. Erika started her own career as a professional cheerleader for the Oakland Raiders.  A beloved member of the BADWATER staff who raised two amazing children and manages a successful real estate...

Headed into the 2026 Cocodona 250-Mile Ultramarathon, Kilian Korth was repeatedly marginalized by some commentators – disrespecting not just him and his achievements, but all of us who compete regularly in 200-mile ultramarathons.  Korth went on to become the fastest-ever male to finish the Cocodona 250, finishing in 57:28:36 and placing second overall to fellow Coloradan Rachel Entrekin, who shat...

South Dakota’s Barry Sackett is a runner’s runner:  A versatile and highly accomplished Marathon Majors road-racer; a run-streaker who hasn’t missed a single day of training in nearly two decades; and a veteran single-tracker who placed 6th Overall in the Cowboy 200-Mile ultramarathon.  He’s also a leader in Sioux Falls’ legal and civic communities, balancing a cutting-edge law practice with relen...

When the global Pandemic hit in 2020, the Navajo Nation – a tribal homeland bigger than 10 U.S. states – suffered some of the highest COVID-19 mortality rates in the world.  With her first grandchild on the way, Echo-Lee Parkhurst vowed to quit drinking , embrace her traditional Dine’ culture and tradition, and start running.  Five years later and 50 lbs. lighter, Echo’s relentless quest for excel...

There may be plenty of helicopter parents, but few two-helicopter families.  After running track and cross-country for the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Cory Wroblewski met his future wife Hope while attending Army helicopter flight school together in Alabama.  She flew a Blackhawk, he a Kiowa. A resilient marriage carried them through multiple separated deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan....

While rising to become one of the most admired trial attorneys in Michigan, five-time Boston Marathon competitor Paul James Johnson morphed into a trail-runner at age 60.  Today –at 69 – Paul is one of the most outstanding 200-mile-plus Grand Masters racers in the world.  Last year, he was awarded the coveted 1,000-mile buckle in the famed Cocodona 250-Mile Ultramarathon after beating the cutoff t...

Non-Profit Executive by day, ultramarathoner by day and sometimes night, Edie Couvillon Aymond leads the regional 211 crisis hotline dispatch system - 232 HELP.org - for South Central Louisiana. Yet this inspiring karate black belt wife and mother of two somehow also finds time to direct one of the most revered ultramarathons in America, the Loup Garou (“Cajun Werewolf”) Trail Races, at Chicot Sta...

Host of the influential podcast RUN LONG AFTER 60, Mark Vega – veteran radio broadcaster turned top-shelf Los Angeles entertainment lawyer – began running in South Korea while leading U.S. Army training exercises. Undaunted by two successive strokes in his early fifties, Mark defied convention by embracing road marathon training and racing. His joyful journey has propelled him, at age 62, to ultra...

Inducted into the USA Triathlon Hall of Fame in 2025, Ellen Hart’s triathlon journey began at age 46. Before that, she was an accomplished distance-runner who set world records and competed in the U.S. Olympic Team Trials. Today, at age 67, Ellen endures as one of the most decorated age-group athletes in the sport. Her triathlon achievements include 18 World Age Group Titles, along with 6 consecut...

The cutoff time in the Moab 240-Mile Ultramarathon – one of the world’s most-challenging endurance competitions in the deserts and high mountains around and above Moab, Utah – is 117 hours. Zachary “Zach” Molloie, a Manhattan attorney-entrepreneur, chased that cutoff for nine years. He willed himself to become a seasoned endurance athlete and, on his fourth attempt, earned the coveted Moab 240 bel...

Overweight and hospitalized with kidney stones, Tom Downey wanted a healthier life for himself and his family. One of Denver’s best-known lawyers, activists, and civic leaders, Tom became a devoted triathlete, training and racing with his trademark gusto and grit. Fresh off his first swim from Alcatraz Island to San Francisco, the 60-year-old former President of the Children’s Museum of Denver, an...

Scottish-born Mark MacDonald – Southampton-based air traffic control expert, retired Royal Navy officer, and one of the United Kingdom’s most intrepid ultramarathoners – chats with Troy Eid about their shared adventures in the 2025 Race Across Scotland 215.  Their memorable journey along the Southern Upland Way – a wee blowy and boggy footrace of at least 225 miles – is not for the faint of heart,...

It’s hard to believe that “Running Dutchie” https://runningdutchie.org/ Lucja Leonard – one of the most prolific 200-milers on the planet – tipped the scales at 200 lbs. before turning to ultramarathoning and stage-racing in 2013.  Born in the Netherlands and raised in Australia, Leonard is highly sought as a coach – and one of the most respected competitors in the sport, with scores of head-turni...

CHASING THE CUTOFF’S Troy Eid talks with John Lacroix – visionary founder and race director of the Human Potential Running Series (HPRS).  A seasoned ultramarathoner who directed the first 200-mile ultramarathon in the United States, John has garnered international respect for the success of the HPRS race series, including the Sangre de Cristo and Silverheels ultramarathons in Colorado’s High Coun...

Hezel Magwili recently became the first Filipino ever to beat the 100-hour cutoff time in the 2025 Race Across Scotland 215-Miler. Hezel and Troy Eid, who shared some memorable miles on the trails in their successful quests to run from the Irish Sea to the North Sea, talk about how Hezel has transformed his 30,000 steps per day career delivering mail up and down London staircases into a potent tra...

Bigger in size than West Virginia, the Navajo Nation extends into three U.S. states and features some of the most epic trail- and road-running races in the country, including the Shiprock Marathon ( ranked Top 10 in the United States by USA Today ) and the Monument Valley Ultramarathon . CHASING THE CUTOFF host Troy Eid talks with Tom Riggenbach and Rygie Bekay, creators and race directors of Nava...

CHASING THE CUTOFF host Troy Eid talks with Constance Anne Garro, a veteran law enforcement officer who, as part of the Omaha Running Club ( https://omaharun.org/ ), is using the positive power of running to help reduce violence and recidivism among inmates in the Nebraska state prison system. Connie combines a high-octane career in policing with podium finishes in the United States and Europe. Fo...

CHASING THE CUTOFF host Troy Eid marks the 40th birthday of Seth James DeMoor, creator of one of the most celebrated running channels on YouTube. DeMoor, whose podium finishes include First Place finishes in both the Pike’s Peak Marathon and Pike’s Peak Ascent, shares how he balances an intense road and sky-running schedule with a busy family life (including six children) and the continued growth...

In this pilot episode, hosted by pioneering musician and podcaster Santiago Ramones, Troy Eid discusses his own ultra-marathoning journey and how it led to CHASING THE CUTOFF. The former United States Attorney for Colorado, Eid (pronounced “Eyed”) is national expert on Native American law and public policy who lives in the Foothills west of Denver. Troy’s running journey, which began in 1979, has...