I’m Lisa Roberts, 46 year old, a retired pro triathlete and avid endurance junkie. I’m also a landscape architect and a cat lover. I recently participated in the Kathmandu Coast to Coast Multisport World Championship, located on the South Island of New Zealand. The race offers two day solo options, relay options, and run section only option. I opted for appropriately named “The Longest Day” version which includes 243 kilometers of technical mountain running, cycling and kayaking down class 2 rapids through canyons that you must complete in, you guessed it, a single day! Here's how it went ... 

Pretty quickly the question crept into my mind in late 2020. My wife and I had just gotten back from Alaska as I had just completed a 7-year goal of running a half marathon in all 50 states. That winding and weaving journey provided endless memories, lifelong lessons, character building opportunities and so much more … but … what was next? My mind was swirling, the ideas were flowing freely, the options were endless. However …

Let me be clear that I am not a scientist and that the Human Powered Movement platform swings significantly further to the artistic side of the art/science pendulum. We exist to inspire more activity in people’s lives and use our platform for good. We essentially, and proudly, follow the Public Benefit Corporation model. We regularly put people and planet over profits and routinely go with our gut feeling when determining “the right thing to do”. It takes a lot of balls and an incredible level of passion to continue this “benefit” work every day, but the impact is meaningful in OUR community and critical for OUR environment.

Launching 2 brand new Carbon Negative endurance events is a match made in HPM Heaven. Here’s what you need to know about how we approached and created two new Carbon Negative Events

• “MOVE” A Carbon Negative & Fat Ass Style Trail Run
• “MOVE” A Carbon Negative & Bare Bones Mtn Bike Ride

A bunch of middle-aged guys and self-proclaimed “Goatbusters” (a former F3 Blue Ridge Relay team name that referenced BRR’s toughest segments, dubbed “mountain goats”) plan a group adventure every year. It’s designed to be challenging, full of fellowship, and proudly CSAUP (aka: Completely Stupid And Utterly Pointless).
 
Doing something difficult together, gives us that shared pain … and something to reminisce about until we do the next one. Rim-to-Rim-to-Rim of the Grand Canyon, Presidential Traverse in New England, Four Pass Loop in Colorado and the Grand Teton Loop in Wyoming have all been crossed off the list. This year we hit Utah’s Zion National Park and it did not disappoint.