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We thought you’d like to know a bit about those folks who contribute to making iRunFar your source for mud, mountains, miles, and more. If you’re interested in contributing any of your various talents to iRunFar, please take a look below.

iRunFar’s Editors

These folks make up iRunFar’s leadership team.

Meghan Hicks – Editor-in-Chief

Meghan Hicks assumed the helm of iRunFar in 2023, following a decade as its managing editor, and years before that in various contract jobs for the publication. In 2016, she wrote Where the Road Ends: A Guide to Trail Running with Bryon Powell. She’s been running since high school, began trail running in 2004, and ultrarunning not long later. You can read more about Meghan Hicks.

Eszter Horanyi – Managing Editor

Eszter Horanyi joined the iRunFar team as a photographer in 2021 and has since added writing, editing, race coverage, and everything else that goes into making iRunFar operate to her repertoire. In 2024, she served as an interim managing editor while our then-managing editor was on an extended leave. In 2025, she stepped permanently into the role.

Bryon Powell – Founding Editor, Gear Editor

Bryon Powell’s been trail running since 1992, ultrarunning since 2002, and publishing iRunFar since 2006. While Bryon has written or edited thousands of articles on the site, these days he heads iRunFar’s gear testing and reviewing operations. He’s also written the books Relentless Forward Progress: A Guide to Running Ultramarathons and, with Meghan Hicks (see above), Where the Road Ends: A Guide to Trail Running along with numerous magazine articles. You can read more about Bryon Powell.

iRunFar’s Columnists and Key Contributors

Here are iRunFar’s columnists and key contributors. We begin with our most longstanding team members.

Andy Jones-Wilkins – Columnist
AJW’s Taproom is proof that some of the world’s best ideas are formed over a pint (or three) of beer. Long-time ultrarunner Andy Jones-Wilkins has been providing iRunFar with weekly editorial perspective since 2011. AJW brings all of us together with his analytical and reflective pieces that spark discussion on a wide variety of topics.

Tom Caughlan – Gear Reviewer
Tom Caughlan is one of iRunFar’s core gear reviewers. Tom’s passion for trail running and specialty-running retail experience shine through in all of his highly technical reviews. He’s been reviewing on iRunFar since 2010.

Travis Liles – Gear Video Reviewer
With Trail Trials, Travis Liles provides video-based trail running gear reviews, an area that he pioneered. Travis has also been reviewing for iRunFar since 2010.

Kristin Zosel – Gear Reviewer
Kristin Zosel originally joined the iRunFar team as a transcriptionist over 15 years ago. Her role has evolved to gear reviews these days.

Joe Uhan – Columnist
Since 2012, Joe Uhan has shared his insights into sports physiology and medicine with his monthly Stay the Course column.

Justin Mock – Columnist
With incredible weekly dedication since 2015, Justin Mock writes iRunFar’s weekly racing update, This Week in Running. During the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 and 2021, when racing was minimal, Justin kept us all connected via his Catching Up With athlete interviews.

Zach Miller – Columnist
In Finding Words, Zach Miller shares his experiences, often as lessons from which we can all learn. He’s been finding his words on iRunFar since 2016.

Sabrina Little – Columnist
As a philosopher and runner, Sabrina Little blends the two in her approachable thinker’s column. Sabrina joined the iRunFar family in 2018.

Pete Johnson – Transcriptionist
Pete Johnson joined iRunFar as a transcriptionist in 2019.

Hannah Green – Columnist
Artist, writer, and multi-sport athlete Hannah Green joined the iRunFar family in 2020, and her Notes from the Trail column helps us to connect deeply with the natural places through which we run. She also added another column, The Art of Running, in 2024.

Annie Behrend – Gear Reviewer
Annie Behrend joined iRunFar as a gear reviewer in 2020.

Craig Randall – Gear Reviewer
Craig Randall joined the iRunFar gear-review team in 2020.

Alli Miles – Gear Reviewer and Editor
Alli Miles began reviewing gear with iRunFar in 2021. She’s added writing, editing, and occasional race coverage to her roles in the years since.

Ben Kilbourne – Gear Reviewer and Editor
Ben Kilbourne joined iRunFar for gear reviewing in 2021. In 2025, he also began editing iRunFar’s gear articles.

Molly Schmelzle  – Gear Reviewer
Molly Schmelzle has been testing and writing about gear on iRunFar since 2022.

Robbie Harms – Gear Reviewer, Writer, and Editor
Robbie Harms joined us as a gear reviewer in 2023, and his roles have since expansed into writing, editing, and very occasional race coverage.

Zander Chase – Columnist
Zander Chase began writing in the Running the Numbers column in 2024, and he brings his ability to wrangle big data sets and visualize data to this column.

Gabe Joyes – Columnist
Last but certainly not least, Gabe Joyes is our newest columnist. The pro runner and coach started iRunFar’s Ask the Pro column in 2024, and he brings a great blend of knowledge drops and humor to his articles each month.

Nick DiMarco – Gear Reviewer
Nick DiMarco is our newest team member, joining us in 2025 as a gear reviewer.

Race Coverage Team

These folks regularly help iRunFar cover races all over the world.

  • Marissa Harris
  • Casey Szesze
  • Ellie Greenwood
  • Olivia Rissland
  • Ashley Saloga
  • Tim Peeters

Additional Regular Contributors

You’ll see the names of these contributors regularly on the “pages” of iRunFar.

  • Adrian Stott
  • Deki Fourcin
  • Lydia Thomson
  • Maggie Guterl
  • Zoë Rom
  • Angie Funtanilla
  • Sandy Stott

Previous Team Members

The following individuals have made key contributions, whether long-term or in the moment, that helped iRunFar what it is today.

  • Nathan Allen served as our affiliate managing editor from 2023 to 2025.
  • Sarah Brady was an editor and later iRunFar’s managing editor, from 2022 to 2025.
  • Elyse Braner became iRunFar’s first female columnist when she started writing Elyse’s Closet back in late 2008. It should also be noted that she was an inspirational example for Bryon Powell‘s move to make trail running his profession.
  • Jessica Campbell penned our WeRunFar column for 4.5 years, from 2014 to 2018, sharing almost 50 stories of our sport’s community.
  • Ian Campbell (U.K.), Miguelito (Spain-Canary Islands), and the Koalas (Spain-Catalunya) have assisted us with race coverage at European races.
  • Joe Grant created his monthly column From My Doorstep from 2013 through 2019.
  • Mitchell Goodman provided iRunFar with the most excitement it saw in 2009 by being the brains that made the Western States 100 prediction contest possible. He repeated the effort every year through 2015.
  • Tracy Hoeg was co-founder of our Running on Science column with Corrine Malcolm in 2017. While Running on Science continues on iRunFar, Tracy retired from it in 2020.
  • Dakota Jones regularly contributed his insights to iRunFar from 2011 through 2018.
  • Brad Koenig and John McAlister were great technical advisors as iRunFar moved from its Blogger roots to WordPress in the winter of 2009 and 2010.
  • Koichi Iwasa (Japan), Rachel Jacqueline (Hong Kong), Paul Charteris (New Zealand), and Kerry Suter (New Zealand) were formerly occasional field correspondents at races in Australia, New Zealand, and Asia.
  • David Laney helped us to complete our Trail Running 101 series in 2018 and 2019, to help newer trail runners.
  • Aliza Lapierre wrote a thoughtful and often introspective column for several years.
  • Robbie Lawless shared his Run Tramp Interviews with iRunFar and the world for three years.
  • Brendan Leonard together with Liza Howard authored our the First Aid on the Run series in 2018 and 2019, with Liza authoring the words and Brendan creating the images.
  • Abby Levene was the creative behind iRunFar’s digital coloring book Happy Trails which was previously available in the iRunFar Store in 2020.
  • Eric LiPuma designed our Happy Trails logo, which we used on merchandise previously available in the iRunFar Store in 2020.
  • Kirsten Kortebein was for over a decade iRunFar’s intrepid and globetrotting photojournalist.
  • Corrine Malcolm helped found the Running on Science column in 2017 and wrote for it through 2022.
  • Doug Mayer previously penned the occasional humor piece for iRunFar.
  • Paper Moustache’s Ale and Sara created iRunFar’s current logo and website.
  • EJ Murphy provided iRunFar’s only comic to date, Happy Trails.
  • Alex Nichols penned the his Always Improving from 2019 to 2022.
  • Mauri Pagliacci frequently helped with our race coverage around the world.
  • Allison Pattillo wrote our Non-Gear Girl column.
  • Paul Petch has provided iRunFar with graphic designs ranging from column logos to ads.
  • Tony Portera was the original voice behind This Week in Running or TWIR.
  • Alex Potter was an editor circa the early 2020s.
  • Mallory Richard joined the iRunFar team first as a transcriptionist and later moved into authoring our Running the Numbers column, from which she retired in 2025.
  • Morgan Tilton operated our beloved WeRunFar column, from 2018 to 2024.
  • Andrew Titus occasionally dropped an exquisitely written piece on iRunFar’s audience.
  • Ian Torrence shared his experience in his Your Ultra-Training Bag of Tricks coaching column between 2012 and 2019.
  • The Trail Sisters, Gina Lucrezi, Pam Smith, and Liza Howard shared their perspectives about our sport in the Trail Sisters column. Ashley Arnold also previously contributed to the column. Liza also penned the Age-Old Runners series for several years.
  • Geoff Roes penned a column on his evolving relationship with running for four years.
  • Eric Senseman was an occasional contributor before hosting the column Sensing Greatness, interviews with top runners, for about two years.
  • Travis Trampe helped us cover races around the U.S. for many years.
  • Brendan Trimboli created iRF’s Non-Gear Girl, This Week In Running, and Elyse’s Closet logos.
  • Rhielle Widders previously guided newer trail runners in the series Trail Running 101.
  • Kim Wrinkle was for years a frequent field correspondent at races in the U.S.

Become a Contributor

If you have skills that you’d like to contribute to iRunFar, please get in touch! We’re always looking for good writers for guest articles, photographers looking to share their work, editors who help shape the “pages” of iRunFar, and graphic artists to help with small projects. Thank you!

Last updated: January 20, 2026

Bryon Powell

Bryon Powell is the Founding Editor of iRunFar. He’s been writing about trail running, ultrarunning, and running gear for nearly 20 years. Aside from iRunFar, he’s authored the books Relentless Forward Progress: A Guide to Running Ultramarathons and Where the Road Ends: A Guide to Trail Running, been a contributing editor at Trail Runner magazine, written for publications including Outside, Sierra, and Running Times, and coached ultrarunners of all abilities. Based in Silverton, Colorado, Bryon is an avid trail runner and ultrarunner who competes in events from the Hardrock 100 Mile just out his front door to races long and short around the world, that is, when he’s not fly fishing or tending to his garden.