MAGDA BOULET

International Athlete
Oakland, California USA

Magda Boulet was an All-American at 5000m on the track at Cal in 1997. After college, she turned her attention to the roads and eventually started running marathons in 2001. In 2008, Boulet took 2nd at the US marathon Olympic trials and earned a spot on the Olympic Team. She went on to lower her personal best to 2:26:22, finishing 2nd at the 2010 Rotterdam Marathon, which at the time placed her 4th on the all-time US Women’s Marathon list. She later finished 7th at Chicago in 2:28:45, and was nationally ranked #1 in the marathon by Track and Field News for the year. She started running Ultramarathons in 2013. In 2015, she won several races including the prestigious Western States 100, and was named the North American Ultra Runner of the Year. She has gone on to record victories at Marathon des Sables in 2018 and Leadville 100 in 2019.

Magdalena Lewy Boulet is a native of Poland and became a U.S. citizen on September 11, 2001. She holds a Bachelors degree in Human Biodynamics from the University of California at Berkeley, and Masters degree in Exercise Physiology with the emphasis of Sports Nutrition from California State University, East Bay. She currently serves at VP of Innovation at GU Energy Labs. She is married to Richie Boulet, a former sub-4 minute miler, and they live in Oakland, Ca, with their son, Owen.

KRIS BROWN

International Athlete
Restaurant Owner
Santa Barbara, California USA

Kris began running at the tender age of six years old and he has been relentless in his commitment to the sport since then. A high school and collegiate runner turned ultramarathoner, he found his passion for long, grueling distances while exploring the mountains of Santa Barbara, California, where he currently lives. Kris’s major ultrarunning accomplishments include a tenth place finish at the 2018 Western States 100, third at the 2020 Tarawera 102k, and fourth at the 2017 North Face 50, among a variety of wins at local events. While he loves racing hard, he also enjoys everything from big adventure runs to summiting peaks to short easy runs in town.

Besides running, Kris owns a restaurant in Santa Barbara, and claims the food and hospitality business as one of his greatest passions. He has been in the restaurant industry for almost as long as he has been running, and likewise he considers himself a “lifer.” When he’s not either deep in the trails or deep in the dishwasher station at his restaurant, Kris can usually be found drinking wine with his friends or taking the short trip to Los Angeles to see a concert or a comedy show.

JARED CAMPBELL

International Athlete
Engineer
Park City, Utah

Jared Campbell is a Utah-based adventure athlete who is drawn to combining and applying multiple skills to accomplish seemingly impossible projects, from high-alpine linkups to multimodality routes in the desert. In his teens and twenties, a healthy obsession with rock climbing took him across the globe. This led to bigger mountain linkups and, eventually, ultrarunning. He has completed over thirty 100-plus-mile ultramarathons; he is the youngest ten-time finisher of the Hardrock 100 and the only three-time finisher of the Barkley Marathons.

Outside of athletics Jared is a father, engineer, and clean energy geek. In 2011 he and his wife designed and built a net-positive solar powered passive house, which produces more energy than it has consumes. Most importantly he proved to himself and others that such a home could be simple, affordable and a logical way to build. Several years ago he decided to put his passion for running to work in an effort to help the fight for improved air quality. The result is a fascinating series of events called the Up For Air series, a collection of endurance events created to amplify informed dialogue and empower organizations actively working on air quality solutions. The race platform is used to expose participants and the general public to science-based material about the importance of healthy air.

STEPHANIE CASE

International Athlete
Ontario Canada / Chamonix, France

As a human rights lawyer and activist, I have worked all over the world, and seen firsthand how intimately connected we are to one another and to our environment. Climate change directly and indirectly affects a wide range of human rights, including people’s rights to health, housing, water and food. Ultimately, the negative impacts of climate change will disproportionately affect women, children, migrants, refugees, persons with disabilities, and the poor, as well as people living in less developed countries.

AVERY COLLINS

International Athlete
Professional Outdoor Athlete, Silverton, Colorado

I live in Silverton, CO with my partner Sabrina Stanley. We live in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado, specifically for the summer running and the winter snowboarding opportunities it offers. I am a year-round athlete (run, bike, run climb, back country split board), striving to summit a mountain a day. There is North of 50 mountains in an 8-mile radius from my door, I have been knocking them out one by one since we moved here 8-months ago and only have a few I haven’t conquered. I live for big adventures in the mountains, which has led me to accumulate a couple 200-mile race finishes.

As a snowboarder in the winter I am witnessing the effect of climate change and global warming right outside my door. The San Juan’s are notoriously known for having the most complicated snowpack in North America, however with changing climate we are experiencing major changes in how the snow is settling and impacting the avalanche dangers. Winters are becoming shorter and the snow is becoming warmer/wetter. This is why I want to be involved in any event that increases awareness on a world scale for global warming/climate change. Racing the Snowman route on an international competitive scale is an opportunity of a lifetime, that matches up with my skill set perfectly.

MATTHEW CHAPMAN

Founder of the Snowman Race / International Athlete / Founding Partner
Founding Member and International Engagement Director of Snowman Race Board, Entrepreneur, Chairman & Founder of ChapmanCG

Matthew first started running when he was in university in Australia and in 2000 did the Sydney Marathon. In 2004, he met Philipp Mosimann at the finish line of a marathon in Kuala Lumpur who had just completed a 250km ultra-marathon. This attracted Matthew to challenge himself even further. Four months later he was standing with Philipp and another friend Andrew in the Atacama Desert in Chile about to take part in his first desert ultra-marathon. By 2006, Matthew had become one of the first 15 people in the world to complete ultra-marathons in the deserts of Chile, China, Sahara and Antarctica. In the past decade, Matthew continued his ultra-marathon endeavours, also completing 250km runs in Namibia and Madagascar.

Matt uses his running as relaxation against his entrepreneurial life. His global business interests are multi-faceted across HR, hospitality and technology. He is Founder and Chairman of ChapmanCG, the world’s largest HR search firm. He also founded Chapman Ventures (ChapmanV) to create the world’s main HR centric ecosystem and to make early stage investments in global HR technology ideas. He is proud to have Stephanie Nash, one of the world’s most talented Chief People Officers, leading ChapmanV. He is the co-owner of Bawah Reserve, the beautiful archipelago 160 nautical miles via seaplane from Singapore. He has several properties in New Zealand, where he now splits his time with his Citizenship country of Singapore, including his treasured Parihoa Farm.

MEGHAN HICKS

International Athlete
Managing Editor of iRunFar.com and
Mountain Athlete Moab, Utah and Silverton, Colorado, USA

Meghan Hicks is the managing editor of iRunFar.com, the preeminent trail running and ultrarunning website. She’s proud to help iRunFar achieve its mission of inspiring and educating the global trail running and ultrarunning community. She leads a team of nearly 20 writers, journalists, and editors as it fulfills iRunFar’s five-days-per-week editorial schedule and a team of over 100 global correspondents as part of iRunFar’s coverage of the most globally competitive trail races and ultramarathons.

Meghan started running at age 14, and has been a part of high-school and collegiate athletics, road running, trail running, and ultrarunning ever since. She ran her first trail race in 2005 and ultramarathon in 2006. She’s accumulated over 60 ultramarathon finishes since then, and her best results have been winning the 2013 Marathon des Sables expedition-length stage race in Morocco and setting the fastest known time in 2016 on the Nolan’s 14 challenge in Colorado, USA. She’s an avid mountain athlete with plentiful experience in challenging and high-altitude terrain, having summited over 100 high-altitude mountains and traveled as high as 19,000 feet in altitude.

WATARU IINO

International Athlete
Mechanical Engineer
Tokyo Japan

Technology and civilization are too convenience now and they may lead all animals, earth and human to worse direction. The first priority is nature, not technology. We may be able to get the knowledge from the Bhutanese people, there culture and food.

Kahshin LEOW

Founder of the Snowman Race / International Athlete / Founding Partner
Managing Director, Quantedge Capital Singapore

Kahshin is an experienced endurance athlete with an extensive resume including multiple 250km stage race finishes. Additionally, in 2018 Kahshin became the first Singaporean to complete the Double High, back-to-back summits of Everest and Lhotse (4th highest mountain in the world) within 24 hours.

Kahshin is an investment manager and the co-founder of the macro hedge fund, Quantedge Capital. Kahshin is committed to philanthropy on a global scale and looking forward to participating in the Snowman Race 2020.

MATTHIAS KASTNER

International Athlete
Basel City, Switzerland

Back in the late 1980s in Germany Matthias started to run in secondary school when his talent for sprint was discovered. But mainly he trained short and middle distances to get faster with more endurance for this main sport football. In football he gained several championships with his juniors teams. But when he left his hometown for the studies he also left football behind and started to run longer distances. In June 1999 when his daughter was born he decided to finish a marathon the same year. Just four month later and better trained in changing diapers than running he finished the marathon for the first time. Over the next 20+ years he prepared better in his new home country Switzerland. He started to run in the mountains and left tracks and cities entirely behind. Over all these years he ran many races from ultra sky to 100k trail competitions. He also finished several multi-day stage races in trail running and moutain-biking.

In addition to running, Matthias loves to hike and explore the European Alps with his little family. Travel and business brought them together with interesting people in beautiful countries like New Zealand, South Africa, Chile, India, Canada and the USA as well as Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar and Laos to discover the most beautiful landscapes in Patagonia, Sichuan and the Western Cape. As far as work he enjoys his job as Head of a Clinical Drugs manufacturing plant at Novartis Pharma, a multinational healthcare company with his headquarters in the northwestern part of Switzerland.

DAVID MENDELSOHN

Founder of the Snowman Race / International Athlete / Founding Partner
Managing Partner Jingzhu International Garments Co. LTD (China)
Founding Member on Sustainability, Renewable Director of The Snowman Race Board Committee
Sydney, Australia / Bangkok, Thailand

David started with various grass roots sports, such as Swimming, Rugby, Basketball, Cricket, Karate, Skiing and running (short distances) which he was training for the Sydney Olympics. He’s continued his sporting hobbies whilst juggling family and work, picking up rock climbing, go carting and Horse Polo with his Daughter. David started at the end of 2019 his foray into long distance running and was in the line up of 50 people, to run in the Ultra X 250km 5 day run back-to-back in Sri Lanka in March 2020 (First Ultramarathon), unfortunately due to Covid-19 the race was called off.

David has a uncanny approach to his entrepreneurial start in life from a very young age he was selling lemons and limes which he grabbed off the neighbours tree and sold them to the local restaurants down from his house. This kick started his career where at the age of 19, he moved to China, Ningbo city to start trading varies hard goods and soft goods to the western countries. Later investing into a garment factory, he co-built the factory with his Taiwanese partner, producing for Licensee’s and O.E.M’s in the sporting fields such as Puma, Adidas Group, Formula 1, Formula E, MotoGP, Jaguar, Ducati, Bentley, Lamborghini, NBA, NFL, MLB & outfitted the Swiss Olympic Team in 2008 Beijing Olympics.

David and his wife Ying, have a long life ambition to create and build a school In Thailand for the disadvantaged kids, through a charity name called one seed one life as a legacy. They’re actively philanthropist’s donating to varies orphanages in Thailand and spending each Christmas day providing kids with food and gifts, bringing together their own kids to share the experience and fun.

The Snowman Race is not only important to raise awareness for the Climate Change Initiative, but to be part of his yearly goals with NEW challenges in life and inspire his children. Bhutan has a small part in his heart which he has visited numerous times, and seems to be drawn back to the country, people and concept of Gross National Happiness.

PHILIPP MOSIMANN

Founder of the Snowman Race / International Athlete / Founding Partner
Director of Happiness, Snowman Committee
London, United Kingdom

Philipp started running in cross country races at 7 years old and went on to Captain his School Cross Country and Athletics Teams. Running his first marathon at 20 years old in Lausanne and has since completed over 20. In 2003 he ran his first 250km Ultra Marathon at the inaugural RTP Gobi Desert in 2003, thereafter completing the same Ultras in Atacama, Sahara, Vietnam, Namibia and Nepal. He then went on to complete the UTMB twice In 2014 & 2015 and is greatly looking forward to competing in Bhutan.

Philipp is Managing Director for Mosimann’s Private Dining Club & Events Catering based in London, having catered for the Royal Weddings of both Princes’ William and Harry and for previous 6 Olympics Games with Tokyo2020 and Dubai Expo 2020 to come. He has three children all schooled in the UK currently. Making people “happy” through food and service is his daily passion.

LUKE NELSON

International Athlete
Physicians Assistant, Idaho Sports and Spine
Pocatello Idaho

Luke spent his childhood wandering the mountains. These days his time in the wild is spent running. Not wanting to be confined by the rules of racing, he prefers meandering lesser-known routes and rowdy mountain linkups as a way to stay connected to nature. Being connected with the outdoors on a daily basis has inspired him to be an activist and to speak up for the planet. He strives to maximize each hour by balancing his time as an activist, physician assistant, race director, husband and father.

CLAIR PERKS

International Athlete
Artist, Little Monkey Metal Works
Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Claire was born and raised on a ranch in southwest Alberta, Canada. She was on her feet every day running around with her horses or playing on foot. That has transpired into becoming an athlete that loves long distances and big challenges. She was a competitive swimmer from 8yrs old to 21 and was the national champion for 10km openwater swim at 19. She has competed in Adventure Racing for many years which has taken her coast to coast across Mexico, New Zealand and Madeira and across grand landscapes in the USA and Canada. With that multi-day, sleep deprivation experience she moved into Ultra running. Her first race out was Tor Des Geants in Italy and she was hooked. She has completed and placed in long 300km+ Ultras all over the World. Currently Claire lives with her husband Michael south of Calgary, Alberta, Canada on their own little slice of heaven. As artist and brain monkey they run ‘Little Monkey Metal Works’, an artistic metal fabrication company with art and statues all over North America. Her other passion is riding and racing horses. In 2019 she raced her horse Harvey Mushman in the women’s sidesaddle at the world-renowned Calgary Stampede and won!

ALEX “Chikorita” ROUDAYNA

International Athlete
Mexico City, México

Alex was first exposed to the running world back in 2013 when she first started racing in OCR. (Spartan Races). She shortly discovered that what truly set her soul on fire was purely running. She ranked 6th in Spartan World Championship back in 2015, 9th in 2018 but wanted to pursue Ultra Running. This lead to Transelkirks stage run race in BC Canada in 2019 (Where she won each stage on the woman’s side, and finally pulled the overall win on the final stage) Alex has Asperger’s disease which makes her perceive the world quite differently, and through running is the way she can truly connect and express who she is. Besides running, Alex loves to learn. She has a B.S. in Psychology, currently working on her Masters Degree and on a B.S. in Criminology. Racing and running has allowed her to travel to different parts of the world where she prefers to get to know each place through running to be able to have a deeper and more personal connection to each place.

JON SABES

Founder of the Snowman Race / International Athlete /
Founding Partner
CEO, FOXO BioScience
Austin, TX USA

Jon is a passionate entrepreneur who finds solace within movement through nature. The passion to move outdoors has led Jon to complete numerous ultra-distance events, including ironman triathlons, organized trail runs, open water swims, overland bike rides, and mountain treks. For Jon, ultra-distance movement represents an opportunity to experience both internal introspection through active meditation during extended periods outdoors and external fitness testing that comes from physically demanding endurance events.

Beyond staying active and raising three children with his wife Kristine, Jon is an entrepreneur and founder of FOXO BioScience. FOXO is commercializing epigenetic technology using supervised machine learning tools to better understand human health, wellness, and lifespan. Molecular biology is the foundation of life. By creating tools and applications that result in a better scientific understanding of genetic expression, Jon seeks to leave a lasting positive impact on human health and wellness.

IAN SHARMAN

International Athlete
Bend, Oregon, USA

Ian has been racing around the world in all styles of event since 2005 and coaching since 2010. He grew up in Northampton, England and worked in London before moving to Oregon in 2009. He’s run over 200 ultras and marathons (PR: 2:21) in every type of weather and on all terrains across the world. He’s won over 50 of these races and has been lucky enough to run in many mountain ranges, including the Himalayas, but he can’t wait to return.

He also holds the fastest time in a trail 100-mile race by a Brit (12h44m), the record for the Grand Slam of Ultrarunning (69h49m), has won the USATF 100-mile trail championship twice and is the 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2017 Leadville Trail 100 Champion. Ultra Running Magazine has voted him as high as 2nd in it’s annual Ultra Runner of the Year rankings and 4th= in the Ultra Runner of the Decade. The last 10 years he raced the Western States 100 every year, finishing in the top 10 for nine consecutive years.

SABRINA STANLEY

International Athlete
Professional Mountain Ultra-Runner for Adidas
Silverton, Colorado

Sabrina is a Professional Mountain Ultra-Runner for Adidas based out of Silverton, CO. After being forced to drop at mile 87 of her first 100-mile race in August 2015, her competitive nature kicked in. She vowed to never drop a race again and become one of the best ultra-runners in the world. In 2016 she returned to Leadville 100, with a vengeance and was able to nab 4th in her first 100-mile finish. Since then she has set her sights on winning the most difficult 100-milers on the planet. In 2018 she won Hardrock 100, 2019 she won HURT 100 and just recently she became the first American (male or female) to win Diagonal Des Fous. Ultrarunner Magazine named Sabrina as 8th best American Female in 2018, and in 2019 she was ranked 5th. Currently she has finished first female at the last 11-ultras she competed in.

TAKUYA WAKAOKA

International Athlete
Fukuoka Japan

Takuya Wakaoka is runner and writer. In 2014, he quit a newspaper company and started running at the end of twenties. Three months later, he completed 250km multi day running race ”Jungle marathon” in 3rd place. This attracted him to challenge himself even further.got a prize in many race, Hakusan Geo Trail (Japan), Mauna to Mauna (Hawaii), the 4Deserts Ultramarathon Series (Namib Race, Gobi March, Atacama Crossing, Antarctica),Victoria 162(Hong kong).Takuya writes running reports and published a book for sharing great experience. He is sure thatSnowman Race gives new experience as saw a glacier melting in Antarctica and fluid magma inHawaii. The great sceneries tell us that the earth is alive and we have to live with nature.

“The way to know the world for me is to run and walk in the wilderness. When I put myself into great nature, I develop a feeling of awe and feel strongly the meaning of life, love for family and friends.Ultra distance Race is very tough and attractive, because each competitors can share awesome experience.The harder a race become, the stronger we have those feelings and share our experience. I want to enjoy all emotionsjoy, sadness, anger, hunger, pain during the race and put such feelings into words to tell the splendor of nature, destruction of glacier. I am convinced that Snow Man Race gives me new insight.”

MICHAEL WARDIAN

International Athlete
International Ship Broker, Potomac Maritime LLC
Washington DC

Wardian is an international ship broker for Potomac Maritime, LLC and and endurance athlete with a focus on marathons and ultra marathons.

Michael has completed over 300 marathons and 100 ultra marathons on all seven continents and the North Pole. Michael has set Guinness World Records, won medals for team USA in the 50K and 100K World Championships, major big city marathons and completed and won some of difficult and the most prestigious marathons and ultra marathons around the world.

So far in 2020, Michael has won the first ever trail race in Saudi Arabia the Eco Trail AlUla, was the bronze medalist at the United States Track and Field 50 Kilometer National Championships and Master’s National Champion and won the Redeye 50K. In 2019, Wardian ran over 1000 Kilometers in races and 53 events in 2019, including setting the Guinness World Record for 10 Marathons in 10 Days and also winning the World Marathon Challenge which is 7 marathons in 7 days on 7 continents. Michael also set the Fastest Known Time for running across the entire country of Israel 1019 Kilometers in 10 days and has the fastest marathon time ever run in Antarctica.

GABRIEL GARCIA

Chief Financial Officer
Morris & Garritano Insurance
San Luis Obispo, California USA

Gabe began running in his early 20s as a stress relief from the rigors of being a CPA during tax season. He quickly began running marathons and hasn’t stopped since. With roughly 20 marathon races completed (PR 3:17), the marathon distance has now become a common training run for Gabe as he has moved on to Ultra Marathons up to 100mile distances. Last year at age 46, he ran faster than he ever has, farther than he ever has, and climbed to the highest elevations he ever has. And while never the fastest guy on the road or trail, Gabe trains as if he is and hopes to capitalize on his work ethic and years of miles underfoot at these longer distances. Gabe enters the Snowman Race with 3 primary goals; 1) to represent the everyday non-elite, middle of the pack runner who simply has a passion for running despite being far off the podium, 2) to highlight the notion that individual choices of everyone matter in the global climate change crisis, and 3) to demonstrate to his children that big mountains or big obstacles can be overcome through hard work & dedication.

Gabe keeps busy balancing his time between work and raising his 3 kids (14, 13, and 4) with his wife. Gabe has lived in several parts of the world including Russia, the Turks & Caicos Islands and both the East of West Coast of the USA. He is happiest when sharing unique experiences with his family while traveling, hiking, camping, and coaching his kid’s sports teams. Gabe is a shareholder and CFO at Morris & Garritano Insurance Agency, a large regional insurance agency on the Central Coast of California.

E V A-M A R I A S P E R G E R

International Athlete
München, Bayern, Germany

• German Champion Ultratrail
• 1st GlossglocknerUltratrail 115k
• 15 1st places in 3 years
• Trailrunner of the year 2020

GAWA ZANGPO

National Athlete
Mongar,  Bhutan

Gawa is from Drametse, Mongar. Currently, he is serving as Chuma (Constable/ Private) in the Royal Body Guard of Bhutan. He is an enthusiast runner and he started his running journey in South Asian Cross-Country Championship 2017 by taking part in a half marathon and standing in 5^th position. In the same year, he participated in Laya Run taking 2^nd position.

Consistently, he stood in the first position in Coronation Marathon in 2018 and the Thimphu Half Marathon, where he recorded his personal best of 1hour 9mins. In the following year, he participated in other International Championships such as Asian Athletic Championship in Doha, Qatar, and the South Asian Game in Nepal. In 2020, he participated in Bhutan International Marathon, and again he came first by recording his personal best of 2hrs 36mins.

PEMA ZAM

Punakha, Bhutan

Working as an assistant staff at PHPA II (Hydroelectric Project), Pema picked running as her hobby since her school days.  Although being a single parent of four children, she never fails to participate in running events and marathons owing to her passion.

She took part in Laya Run consecutively for 3 years (2017-2019) gaining 7th, 4th and 5th positions respectively. In 2018, she secured 6^th position in Coronation Marathon and 5^th in Bhutan International Marathon. In the following year, she topped the Bhutan Sports Festival and completed Thunder Dragon Marathon by obtaining 5^th position. With the support from her family, friends, and organization (PHPA II), she participates in most of the running events, and she believes that qualifying for Snowman Race is one of her major accomplishments throughout her running career.

JAMPEL CHODA

National Athlete
Mongar, Bhutan

Jampel is from Chaskhar, Mongar. He is serving as Peljab (Corporal) in the Royal Body Guard of Bhutan. In 2017, he first participated in Coronation Marathon and stood in the third position.

Since then, he has set his sights on winning and stood in the top three positions in the annual Coronation Marathons, Thimphu Half Marathon, and Bhutan International Marathon.

Sangay

National Athlete
Bhutan

Sangay serving for Royal Bhutan Army in the Commando wing at Shaba, Paro as Gopa (Lance Corporal) started to participate in competitive races/ events in 2016 during International Half Marathon where he secured 4^th position. Followed by this, he took part in Thimphu Half Marathon and got 3^rd position. He then went on to secure top three positions in the annual Paro Coronation Marathons, Laya Run, and Southern Foothill Marathon. In 2018, he ran in his first international event in Delhi Half Marathon, and then in the South Asian Game in Nepal.

Before participating in the selection run of the Snowman Race, he participated in Bhutan International Marathon and got 2^nd position.

SANGAY WANGCHUK

National Athlete
Dagana,  Bhutan

Serving as Pelpen (Sergeant) in Royal Bhutan Army and also a physical instructor in Military Training Center, Sangay has participated in and bagged top three positions in numerous national and international running events.

Started in 2008, he has taken part in Coronation Marathon X 8, Bhutan International Marathon X 5, Ultra-Marathons X 7, and 16 other marathons. With his relentless commitment, he obtained 33 Gold medals,2 Silver, and 1 Bronze from these national events.

Not only in Asian Countries but he was also invited and participated in various international marathons hosted in some European countries like Berlin and Bulgaria.

TASHI CHOZOM

Tashigang, Bhutan

Tashi has been growing up in the mountains of eastern Bhutan and has a lifelong love for her country and the beauty of the mountains. She has been a professional cultural and trekking guide in Bhutan since 2006 and completed many remote treks in Bhutan.

With the closure of all tourism activities in Bhutan due to the global pandemic, it enabled her to spend more time pursuing her passion for hiking and running in the remote mountains of Bhutan. She stood 1^st in the woman category during the selection run of Snowman Race. She is looking forward to challenging herself further in the mountains.

TASHI NORBU

National Athlete

Samdrup Jongkhar, Bhutan

Hail from Samdrup Jongkhar, Tashi who is serving for Royal Bhutan Army in the Commando wing at Shaba, Paro as Peljab (Corporal) started running professionally in 2014. 

Knowing his passion for running, he participated in many national marathons such as Coronation Marathon, Bhutan International Marathon, Laya Run, Southern Foothill Marathon, and Blue Poppy Run. He bagged at least one top-five prize in every marathon he has taken part in.

VIVI TSHERING

National Athlete
Thimphu, Bhutan

Temples in Bhutan are usually in remote or high-altitude places, and Vivi used to enjoy climbing to one such temple called Taktsang (Tiger’s Nest Monastery). She has since then climbed Taktsang over 116 times. She realized she enjoyed these hikes and this led her to run. Running gave her an avenue to challenge herself and she believes that’s the best part about marathons as you don’t really compete with others, you try to do better than your last run.

She started running in 2016 and ran her first half marathon then. Ever since she participated in all the Bhutan International Marathons. She also enjoys running and took part in the first edition of the Snowman Run from Gasa to Laya which was a two-day run, and also in the Women Race for Climate Action 2021.