Meet Our Team
Candice burt
Founder, Owner
Candice is the founder of Destination Trail and a professional runner specializing in multi day adventures. She has a passion for creating community based events for the whole family and 200 mile events that explore some the most challenging, remote and mind blowing terrain on the planet.
Candice has set a number of speed and course records including the speed record on the 170 mile Tahoe Rim Trail, which she did solo and unsupported in 2020.
Candice lives in the mountains with her two teenage daughters and their dogs and cats. Besides running, Candice loves thru-hiking and fast packing, obsessing over ultra light gear, trail work, maps and dogs.
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Garrett Froelich
President & Race Director
Garrett has been working with Destination Trail since 2014 when he helped at the inaugural Tahoe 200. He currently works full time as our Race Director and President of the company. Garrett previously worked for us as Course Director and Headquarters Management.
Garrett is a Bigfoot 200 mile finisher, he ran the race in 2018. He lives and plays in Lake Tahoe where he spends the winters exploring the backcountry on his splitboard and his summers are spent running, climbing and biking in the mountains.
Brian WilFORD
Medical Director & Volunteer Coordinator
With a life full of countless hours of service as a Battalion Chief, Brian has had many opportunities to oversee anything medical and emergency related. Brian worked as Medic 2, our 2nd in charge on our Medical Team, in 2018 and took over the lead director role in 2019 for our Triple Crown of 200 milers. Brian has assisted in numerous rescues for Destination Trail, including a helicopter rescue out of the most remote part of the Bigfoot 200 course in 2018.
Brian and his wife of 30 years, Theresa, are currently living a life full of adventure by traveling the country full-time in their RV. Brian and Theresa have three kids: Briana, Emma, and Kyle. Brian has completed several 100's, and loves training in the Grand Canyon. He also has a love for hiking, fishing, photography and runner's feet.
Isabella "IzzyB" Janovick
Media and Marketing Director
Izzy grew up participating in team sports and extreme sports. After breaking her back snowboarding and almost being paralyzed, she switched to running and ran her first ultra in 2015. She continued to grow with the sport, increasing her race distance, and became intrigued with the 200+ events. After volunteering and pacing at multiple races of this length, she ran and finished the Moab 240 in 2022.
Professionally Izzy owns her own marketing company where she works with running brands and race directors such as Injinji, Spring Energy, Nathan Sports, The Endurance Race Series, Elevation Culture, and many more.
When Izzy isn’t running or posting on Instagram, she spends quality time with her family in both San Diego and Idaho, husband and two rescued pitbulls Dally and Romanoff.
Adam Eckberg
Course Director and HQ Manager
Adam has volunteered at the Moab 240 race since 2019. In 2018, he quit factory work in NY and hit the road. He quickly landed in Colorado, first as a ranch hand and currently as a mechanic. Adam found running in his twenties thanks to a coworker and ran his first ultra in 2016. He enjoys ice fishing and snowmobiling in the winter and exploring the backcountry in the summer.
Jess Greene
Administrative Assistant
You can probably find Jess Greene running, reading, strength training, and happily chasing her three kids in her hometown of Fort Collins, Colorado. She’s perpetually training for the next Moab 240. Jess spent her younger years in academia- earning her undergraduate at the California Institute of Technology and her Master’s degree in molecular biology at the University of Colorado Boulder.
After years as a lab rat, Jess ventured outside and found running at age 35. She started running at the end of a 100-pound weight loss journey facilitated by an outdoor bootcamp and education in clean eating. The outward physical change was accompanied by an inward change- the dormant athlete awoke. Jess started by running a couple slow miles. This was followed by a few quicker miles, then a marathon. Next was a 100 mile run around her neighborhood. In 2020, Jess joined the 200 miler community by finishing her first Moab 240. She has finished every year since.
Jess loves the 200 mile experience and has completed the distance 6 times. She has also volunteered at several 200 mile events on the headquarters crew. She loves bringing the adventure alive for others as much as she enjoys running the distance herself. Jess believes that 200 mile distance is achievable for all runners and it is the best adventure out there…that is, until 300 miles is an option!
Phil Lowry
Director of GPS
Phil Lowry ran his very first footrace in 1994, the Wasatch Front 100 Mile Endurance Run. Rather than treat this as “one and done”, Phil went on to run 20 Wasatch 100s and 15 Bear 100s, among a host of other 100s along the way (now totaling 55). In 2017 memories of his friend Stephen Jones spurred him to push his personal boundaries at the Bigfoot 200, which he finished, both stupefied and hooked. Since then Phil has finished two Triple Crowns and a total of nine 200s. His fastest performances include finishing both Wasatch and the Bear back to back in under 24 hours, but his most memorable are the 100s and 200s he has run with his better half Jill Clark, who has finished her own Triple Crown, and with his son Ian, a naval officer.
Phil is a lawyer with three jobs: he works remotely for a large fin-tech firm in Salt Lake City, is pro bono general counsel for nonprofit evacuating refugees from Afghanistan, and is the senior Army lawyer for the Montana National Guard. Phil began fiddling with navigation and GPS from when it was invented—he still has his old Garmin 12XL from the days before Selective Availability was turned off by the Clinton administration. He is an expert at mapping and GPS usage, and has been seen at aid stations during races performing emergency resets on other racers’ watches. He holds Security+ and CISSP technical certifications and is an Amateur Extra ham licensee (AG7IH). He can be spotted at races and training runs as the guy with multiple watches, because “I don’t get lost.” He and Jill make their home in Issaquah, Washington, where the eight Lowry children often come to visit to relax in the PNW forest.
ABOUT US
Why Choose Destination Trail Events?
All events in the Triple Crown of 200s are organized by Destination Trail, a company that has been organizing 200+ mile races for 9 years beginning with the Tahoe 200 in 2013. Choose an organization inspired by runners and owned and managed by ultrarunners. We are here to support you through your epic adventures with our well-marked courses, medical team, live tracking that is monitored 24/7, aid stations with real food including vegetarian and vegan options and a track record of successful, runner-oriented events. Thought and care is put into every aspect of our events from the quality swag and awards you receive - handmade in the USA, to how and where each sign and course marking ribbon is placed.
Choosing a company with a proven track record of successfully organizing multiple 200+ mile races cannot be over-emphasized when it comes to putting your trust, time and investment- your life- into an event of this distance and magnitude. We have had many years to work out the kinks and issues that all events face in the first 3-5 years of their inception. We know where our routes need (extra) markers (where runners get lost), we know where extra water/aid support needs to be, we know when runners tend to have medical issues, what mandatory gear to require, what staff and volunteers to have in place, what foods runners need to make it so many miles at a time (hint: lots of incredible real, hot food!) and so much more, all this based on many years of experience.
Our events are challenging and the ultimate in adventure-based trail running with an emphasis on supporting our participants before, during and after the event, runner safety, and the most scenic mountain routes in the USA. Each event is designed so that you can travel from anywhere in the world and see the most stunning terrain & views on non-repetitive courses. We like to have the most single track mountain trails possible! We'll never have you run in circles or out and back just to get some extra miles. Our 200-mile events generally (pre-COVID) have 15-25% international runners and athletes from almost every state in the country. See why people from all over the world keep choosing to run Destination Trail events - and why we have one of the highest return rate of runners in the industry despite also having the longest distances.