Let’s unlock your potential.

I help athletes, business owners and founders to unlock their peak performance, develop resilience, and build the mindset needed for sustained success.

My Recent Speaking Engagements

  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Boulder, CO

    I spoke with NOAA researchers about team building, leadership and problem sloving

  • Vail Mountain School, Vail, CO

    I spoke with high schoolers about resilience and how sports can teach you to push your limits

  • Strategic Leadership Program

    I spoke with business owners about leadership traits and techniques to integrate them into their businesses

  • 50 Years, San Franscisco, CA

    I spoke with scientists and founders to help them identify traits that will allow them to succeed, how to develop them and implement them.

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Trail Society Podcast

trail society podcast

Hosted by Hillary Allen, Keely Henninger and Corrine Malcom

Keely Henninger, Corrine Malcolm, and Hillary Allen are three professional trail runners looking to utilize their experience as athletes and scientists to foster community and discussion around new and challenging topics in the world of trail running, training and racing, and equality.

Articles

2023

Hillary Allen, ultrarunner and endurance athlete

Hillary Allen was one of the top-ranking trail runners in the world in 2017 when a 150-foot fall off a mountain in Norway during a race nearly ended her life.

Adventure Stash Podcast

Adventure Stash Podcast

Episode 103: Hillary Allen — (professional) Runner, Cyclist, Author, Scientist, etc.

Hillary Allen's story is one for the ages. Her 150 foot fall off of a cliff while leading the skyrunning race series, where she broke 14 bones and risked never walking again, is the kind of story you see in the movies or read in a book.

King of the Ride podcast

King of the Ride

Unlocking Your Potential

Today we are going to explore the mental preparation and positive mindset needed to conquer the challenges of ultra running.

Trail Runner Nation

Trail Runner Nation
hillary allen

Apr 25, 2022

How Sport Sampling Can Unlock Your Running Potential 

Cross-training doesn’t have to be a chore. Remove your running blinders to put a new spin on your training.

Trailrunner, Lucie Hanes

2022

More from 2022

  • The Feed: HPT Athlete Interview: Hillary Allen. READ

  • Sonya Looney: A Life-Threatening Fall And the Resilience of Trail Runner Hillary Allen. READ

  • Finding Mastery: Hillary Allen: Your Best Days Are Ahead of You. READ

2021

  • iRun Far: 2021 Madeira Island Ultra-Trail Results: Victories for Hillary Allen and Hannes Namberger. READ

  • Trail Runner Mag: DNF Episode 12 – Hillary Allen On Injury And Identity. READ

  • The Runner’s World: Advice from Hillary Allen on Recovering with Serious Injury. READ

2020

  • Runner’s World: Ultrarunner Hillary Allen Wants to Inspire More Women to Get Out on the Trails. READ

  • The Telegraph: Hillary Allen: 'Some days post 150ft fall, death seemed the easier option... but I had to fight on'. READ

  • Trail Runner Mag: Hillygoat's Hills. READ

  • Trail Runner Mag: In Hillary Allen’s Quarantraining, Everything Counts. READ

2019

  • BBC Sport: Hillary Allen: How American skyrunner returned to the race that almost killed her. READ

  • Jaybird Sport Blog: For this Fourth of July edition of the Weekly Fourcast, we caught up with Jaybird Ambassador Hillary Allen, a.k.a. The Hillygoat. READ

  • Women’s Running: Nearly two years ago, ultrarunner Hillary Allen fell off a cliff, breaking 12 bones and tearing a ligament in her right foot. Doctors said she’d never run again, but Hillary proved them wrong. READ

  • Sport Techie: SportTechie chatted with ultrarunner Hillary Allen about her sport, how she worked her way back after falling off a cliff, and her new podcast, Athletes Unfiltered. READ

  • Apple News: Hillary Allen returns to Europe in search of redemption. READ

  • TrailRun: She returns to high competition after the accident that almost cost her, her life. READ

  • Runners World: Feeling stronger than ever, Allen is contemplating taking on a 100-miler or two in the future. READ

  • Runners World: Two Years Later, Hillary Allen Conquers Race That Nearly Killed Her - Alongside the man who saved her life, the ultrarunner finally has closure in Tromso, Norway. READ

2018

  • Skratch Labs Blog: Once you’ve hit rock bottom, how do you find the motivation to start again? After a near-fatal fall, Allen shares 5 ways she found a way to keep going.  READ

  • Trail and Kale: Balancing Recovery, Running, Travel, Science and Life: An Interview with Hillary Allen. READ

  • Fleet Feet Blog: After a horrific fall, Hillary Allen returns to competition.  READ

  • Gear Junkie: Hillary Allen tells the remarkable story of how she fell from a 100-foot cliff during an ultra race last year, nearly losing her life. And how she’s now back to finishing ultramarathons. READ

  • The North Face: We caught up with ultrarunner, Hillary Allen (AKA “Hillygoat”), to chat about life, role models and how she coped with a near-fatal accident last year. READ

  • Outside: How Hillary Allen Overcame a Traumatic Injury - While recovering from a terrible accident, the ultrarunner discovered a new part of her identity that went beyond her sport. READ

2017

  • Trailrunner: After Near-Fatal Fall, Hillary Allen Finds Strength in Silver Linings. READ