Zachary Reeder

A 28-year-old aeroespce engineer from Texas, living in California, who will be making his marathon debut at the Pole. Zach is working for his childhood hero, Burt Rutan, a famous American aeroespce engineer. He started running with his father when he was 13 and has been at it ever since. This will be Zach's first time above the Arctic Circle and he has become very interested in the golden age of polar exploration. He sees the North Pole Marathon as a way to live a little bit of that history. For inspiration, he has named all of his running shoes after vessels of exploration and survival: Fram, James Caird, Gjoa, and Cutter Bear.