Ep. 137 Devon Yanko & Justin Walker: Pack Burro Racing, Salida’s Methodist Mountain Ultra, Mountain Life, and Cultivating Wisdom with One of the Best Ultrarunners in the World
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Devon Yanko and Justin Walker are pillars of the running community in and around Salida, CO. They can both be found with some regularity at 7000 Feet Running Company as well as on the roads, trails, and track.
Devon has run more than 50 marathons (including 40 sub 3 hour marathons), as well as more than 50 ultra marathons since 2006. On the roads, Devon has competed in two Olympic Trials in the marathon as well as winning three ultra distance road national championships and competed on six Team USA ultra teams including 2009 Gold Medal winning team in Belgium for the 100k and 2019 silver medal team in Romania for the 50k. She has also come in 3rd place at the prestigious Two Oceans Marathon (56k) in Cape Town, South Africa and 5th in Comrades Marathon (89k, as well as first novice and first American) in 2012. She has earned 3 Comrades Marathon gold medals (Top 10s).
On the trails, she is equally as accomplished including winning Leadville 100 and Javelina 100. Devon’s 100 mile PR is a blazing 14 hours, 23 minutes at Umstead in 2022.
Justin has participated in over 100 races from 1 mile to 500+ mile events. He has been organizing events for nearly 10 years and knows the community is first and foremost to a healthy lifestyle. Justin is a great guy who also happens to be a former elite storm chaser.
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