Rob Krar

About

Rob Krar is a Canadian-born ultrarunner and pharmacist who grew up in Hamilton, Ontario, twice represented Canada as a teenager in the ITU Junior World Triathlon Championships, and spent fourteen years working overnight pharmacy shifts while quietly building one of the most decorated ultra résumés on the North American circuit. A runner at Butler University who placed 27th at the 2007 Boston Marathon and won the TransRockies six-day stage race three times, Krar pivoted fully to mountain ultras in his early thirties and signed with The North Face. His 2014 season stands as one of the most compressed demonstrations of 100-mile excellence in American ultra history: he won Western States 100, Leadville Trail 100, and Run Rabbit Run 100 in eleven consecutive weeks, earning his first UltraRunner of the Year award. He repeated at Western States in 2015. A knee injury sidelined him in 2017 but Krar returned to win Leadville again in 2018. Throughout a decorated competitive career he has been equally open about a decades-long struggle with clinical depression, and has channelled that openness into community building through the Rob Krar Ultra Camp and coaching programmes based out of Flagstaff, Arizona, where he lives with his partner Christina Bauer.

Notable Wins

• — Western States 100 2014 & 2015
• — Leadville Trail 100 2014 & 2018
• — Run Rabbit Run 100 2014
• — UROC 100K 2013
• — The North Face Endurance Challenge 50M 2013
• — TransRockies 6-Day Stage Race ×3
• — 2× UltraRunner of the Year (2014
• — 2015)

Race History