Matt Carpenter (runner)

Matthew Edwin Carpenter, known as Matt Carpenter and born July 20, 1964, is an American ultramarathoner who has run as a trail runner and in high altitude marathons. Born in North Carolina, he took up running in Mississippi and later moved to Colorado, settling in Manitou Springs in 1998. In 1990 tests at the U.S. Olympic Training Center measured his VO2 max at 90.2, the highest they had recorded. After signing with Fila Skyrunners in 1993 he won most of the seventeen high altitude marathons he entered and set records at 14,350 feet and 17,060 feet. Moving to ultrarunning, he set a course record at the San Juan Solstice 50-mile race in 2004 and broke the Leadville Trail 100 record by over an hour and a half in 2005. He has won the Pikes Peak Marathon twelve times and the Pikes Peak ascent six times.