Chelsea Hollingsworth-Barnhill is a physical therapist training in Palm City, Florida. She had a marathon PR of 2:41 and ran at the 2020 Olympic Marathon Team Trials.

With a strong background in swimming, having spent hours on the bike crosstraining through injuries throughout her running care and her family’s encouragement, Chelsea decided to give the 70.3 Ironman triathlon distance a try.

In May, she won her first go at the distance at the Visit Panama City Beach Ironman 70.3 Gulf Coast.

Akis Medrano lives in Boulder, Colorado, and trains with the Boulder Underground group based there. He is a 2019 graduate of Indiana State University.

During his time as a Sycamore, he scored multiple conference championship meet points, qualified for the NCAA East Regionals on the track at 10,000-meters and earned an NCAA Cross Country Championships berth.

Akis has strong personal bests from the 800-meters (1:53.16) all the way up to the 10,000-meters on the track (29:46.48). His dream is to be a professional athlete.

Boulder Underground coach Matt Hensley has recently been featured in episode (mile) 81 of the Seconds Flat podcast. Read/listen here!

Emma Kertesz lives in Boulder, Colorado, and trains with the Boulder Underground group based there. She is an academic interventionist and a 2-time Olympic trials qualifier.

Louie Cayedito is a triathlete turned distance runner. He is a massage therapist training in Lansing, Michigan.

Brian write, The Softest Hour, about Boulder Underground for Ciele Athletics.

Ten weeks after giving birth Laura Campbell finished only two minutes off her 15k personal best, running 1:00:34 at the Gate River Run in Jacksonville, Florida on March 21.