( 01 ) — THE STORY
Max Jolliffe didn't run a step
until he was 25.
Max Jolliffe grew up surfing and skating in Newport Beach, California. Running was never the plan — it showed up in recovery, on two broken ankles, as a way to get his life back. It stuck.
Sober since his mid-twenties, he ran every day from October 28, 2021 through May 8, 2025 — a 1,289-day streak. The same obsession that nearly took him out is the one that carried him 240 miles across the Utah desert — first through the finish, with a course record — and through Death Valley in July faster than anyone in Badwater history.
"Max's greatest aspect to his racing is the fact that he doesn't quit."JESS HAYNES — 2023 KING OF MOAB
B. 1992 — COSTA MESA / NEWPORT BEACHSOBER · STILL RUNNING
