WAYNE KURTZ

Wayne Kurtz is passionate about the lifetime benefits of endurance sports.  Over the last 34 years, he has tested himself and triumphed over hundreds of endurance races throughout the world.  Wayne’s friends still call him “Wayne The Train” and the Grinder as he pushes to always finish no matter how bad the circumstances. He has coached a small group of athletes for 21 years and writes through his popular blogs on endurance sports training, entrepreneurism, and chief goals officer platform

Author  of the following books:
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• Beyond The Iron
• Never Say “I Wish I Had”
• Co-Author– Stronger Than Iron (the epic world record journey of the athletes who finished the 2013 Triple DECA Iron event)
• It’s All About the DECA (Fearless Exploration Through 1,406 miles)

Racing Highlights of over 300-lifetime endurance events include:

• Triple DECA Iron finisher, Lake Garda, Italy, 2013.  One of 8 athletes that completed 30 Iron distance triathlons in 30 days (1 per day format) 72 miles of swimming, 3,360 miles biking, 786 miles running
• 5 Time DECA Iron Finisher (24 miles swimming, 1120 miles biking, 262 mile run) both formats Classic and 1×10 – Most of any American
• First American to finish the 1×10 DECA Ironman
• 123 Ironman’s completed including 12 Double Iron’s and 1 Quintuple Iron
• Finisher of the 2016 self-supported 4,270 mile Trans Am Bike Race
• Finisher of the 2018 self-supported 2,740 mile Tour Divide Bike Race
• Multiple 100 Mile, 24, 48 Hour global running and cycling races.
• Finisher of the 2019 self-supported 3500 mile Bike Non Stop US Race