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Ken Rideout

Published March 16, 2026

Ultra-Marathon Champion Ken Rideout on Discipline and Determination

The world’s fastest marathon runner over 50 shares his extraordinary story of resilience, redemption and personal transformation.

Ken Rideout grew up in a broken home in inner-city Boston, Massachusetts; became a corrections officer in a hard-core prison at 18; made millions as a trader on Wall Street but behind the financial success battled a long, dark addiction to opioids.

Adopting a baby from an orphanage in Ethiopia and endurance running became Ken’s salvation. He won his first ever ultra-marathon in the Gobi Desert in 2023 and reveals his incredible journey in Everything You Want is on The Other Side of Hard.