How Brooks Pro Trail Runner Will Murray Preps for Race Day

Will Murray knows long distance trail running is a skill sport. He isn’t your typical pro trail runner. Just a couple years ago, Will was a full-time high school math teacher, balancing lesson plans, coaching, and long miles in the mountains. Then everything changed. In the last 1.5 years, Will emerged as one of the sport’s most unexpected breakout talents. Finishing second at the 2025 Black Canyon 100K to earn a Golden Ticket and then going on to win the Javelina Jundred in course-record time. Will moves through the sport calm, calculated, and mathematical in approach. A former competitive cyclist turned trail runner, he’s learned to simplify the chaos of endurance into something precise and controlled. Now, as a new member of the Brooks Trail Runners, Will is chasing his next chapter: stepping onto the starting line at Western States 0:50 - Training time 1:36 - Life as a math teacher and how Will got into trail running 4:45 - Will's trail race strategy 5:05 - A series of unfortunate events 7:06 - Will's comeback 7:50 - Trail running as a skill sport