Anton Krupicka returned to Leadville in 2021, older, battered, and more honest. This is what it means to stay in the sport—even when it doesn’t look like it used to.

Ethan Peters just smashed the Canadian Death Race course record—and then turned up in the Alps and placed 23rd at TDS. This isn’t luck. It’s design.

At 38, Ian Morgan weighed 103kg and was chasing the wrong things. Now in his 50s, he runs ultras around the world—and lives by the quiet structure he built along the way.