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Boulder Underground founder and coach, Matt Hensley, talks navigating injury risk and training load with Dr. Kurt Roeser & Dr. Efren Caballes.
Emma Kertesz and Nicole Bush collaborated on a piece for the Tracksmith Journal. Emma wrote the words and Nicole took the photos.
Boulder Underground athletes have been crushing marathons this fall and winter. So much so, that a few of them have been interviewed on podcasts! Briana Boehmer is on Farther & Faster and Kelsey Pontius is on Seconds Flat.
During Emma Kertesz’s junior year of high school she realized she probably wasn’t going to get a scholarship to a DI university to play soccer. So at the suggestion of her track coach, who was also the cross country coach, she ran cross her senior year instead of playing soccer.
She ran to all-American status over 10,000-meters, in 2012, while competing for the University of Toledo. Then chose to forego her last year of eligibility, like a badass, to *go pro* and join the Hansons-Brooks Original Distance Project.
Since then, she’s run at two Olympic Marathon Trials—2016 and 2020—and has a marathon PR of 2:40:56.
Most recently Emma was the 10th American in the *elite field* (Shalane Flanagan, who started in a different wave, technically knocked Emma to 11th) at the 2021 TCS New York City Marathon. We’re so excited about it and have so many questions. These are those questions.
Boulder Underground athletes are running in some big marathons this fall and aiming for some big goals. See what some of the runners are saying about their upcoming marathons.
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.
Boulder Underground’s Tansey Lystad sits down (virtually) with Jonathan Levitt on his podcast For the Long Run. Listen here!
Bria Wetsch ran a massive personal best of 2:29:50 at the Marathon Project on December 20, 2020. Her performance caught the attention of Runner’s World and Podium Runner.
Anh Bui is a marathoner who started training under Matt Hensley with Boulder Underground, in Boulder, CO, in September of 2019. She recently moved back home to California. Anh is a Doctor of Physical Therapy practicing at EXOS.
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.