The Mammoth Track Club
HOW AMERICA'S ELITE DISTANCE RUNNERS CAME TO TOWN
Story and photos by Andy Selters
THE EASTERN SIERRA INSPIRES A LOT OF RUNNING.
Clean, cool air, extensive trails and open roads leading through quiet vastness—every town from Lone Pine to Lee Vining has fitness joggers, trail runners, ultra-runners and a few mega-runners. But there’s a team of professionals here that races among the fastest in the world. When they run for the money in London or Chicago or Beijing, hundreds of thousands, even millions, of people line the streets and cheer them on by name. Hundreds of millions more watch on television, and when things line up right this team breaks records. They’re the Mammoth Track Club, rightfully self-described as “the top-ranked long-distance running group in America.” The runners include Mebrahtom “Meb” Keflezighi, Deena Kastor and Ryan Hall—household celebrities across the running world. Their story—the story of how the Eastern Sierra has become arguably the premier training ground in American distance running—begins with the partnership of two brilliant coaches and their two finest athletes.
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