Zach Miller to Race Canyons by UTMB

Freetrail shares the news on Instagram:

One of the world’s most decorated trail runners, Zach Miller turns his competitive sights towards Western States for the first time in his storied career.

Still needing qualification, Zach’s name recently appeared on the Canyons 100k start list…

Zach is not just one of the most decorated trail runners but also one of the most beloved by fans. Recently plagued by injury we haven’t seen him at at lot of start lists, so this is a welcome ‘welcome back’.

As a sidenote: Zach was one of the characters in the UTMB/PTRA fallout where top athletes like Kilian and Zach were back-dooring an email chain trying to convince other elites to boycott UTMB in favor of running an independent race. This spectacularly backfired and he’s been one of the last elite runners we haven’t seen back at a UTMB event since all this went down back in 2024. Zach is racing Canyons 100k in hopes to get a Golden Ticket to Western States. So not entirely to get back to Chamonix right away, but my money is on him getting back to the Alps in due time.