Ethan Myers

Hometown: Saratoga Springs, NY

Previous Schools/Clubs: Saratoga Springs HS, Binghamton University (club), Colorado Springs Running Club (RIP)

Notable PRs:

• 3K steeplechase but at women’s height, but also an hour after eating multiple bagels: 10:50
  8K: 28:54
• HM: 1:17:47

Favorite Horse: Icelandic

Favorite Band: Little Dragon

Ethan’s running career has been “kind of weird”, as he would describe it, to the point at which his non-runner friends claim that they want to make a Netflix documentary of it. 

He started running in the summer of 2005, before his freshman year of high school, as part of a challenge from another activity to run 50 miles over the course of the season.  Fascinated by the fact that he could quite easily chart his mile time improvement over the course of the summer, Ethan decided to give distance running a try, only to find that he had signed up for a program that was the high school distance running dynasty at the time.  While he himself didn’t end up doing much (he describes himself as a “runt” of the program ability-wise), he did find himself in odd competitive situations throughout his high school career, including being the only male runner trained for steeplechase running (which automatically got him to early post-season races his junior and senior years).

Ethan kept running through college as a part of Binghamton University’s club team (BURC).  While the jump from “dynasty” to “club team that’s just getting off the ground” gave him a bit of psychological whiplash, he eventually adapted and went on to run a 1:17:47 half marathon, in addition to winning the 2013 NIRCA northeast regional cross country championships (which were in fact hosted, but the results are hidden for a reason…).  He also served as webmaster and later president of the running club, and as a grad student mentored younger runners on a team that would later go on to win back-to-back NIRCA northeast regional cross country meets in the men’s division.

Some personal issues kept Ethan from running competitively for quite some time after college, though he has been working his way back since moving to northern Virginia in 2022.  He joined Light Horse in 2024, and, along with orchestrating much of the technological work behind Light Horse’s operations (he recently had his title changed from “webmaster” to “director of technology” because he is also in charge of streaming now), tries to impart the successful team cultures from his past experiences into LHTC in any way that he can.