JMTR’s new race director Laura Musgrave Martinez in the playground of the New Mexico Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Photo Courtesy JMTR

Tom Stockton and Bill Geist served as co-race directors for several years. Courtesy photo

JMTR NEWS RELEASE

Jemez Mountain Trail Runs (JMTR) has announced Laura (Musgrave) Martinez as the new JMTR Race Director (RD). Laura grew up in Los Alamos and has been a member of the JMTR organizing committee since 2019.  A competitive swimmer through college, Laura discovered trail running at the age of 29 when she moved back to Los Alamos at the end of 2016, after a decade spent living in California and NYC.

The JMTR 15-mile in 2017 was her first trail race and first run over a half-marathon. From that point forward, she was hooked. She knew she had found the community she had been missing in her life.  Since then, Laura has run distances as long as 100 miles and finds the trail running community to remain one of the most grounding and positive aspects of her life. Alongside her sister, Laura was co-director of Pajarito Trail Fest in 2019 and 2020 and enjoys being on the organizing and supporting side of trail running as much as she loves participating as a runner.

She is both honored and humbled to be involved with such a well-run, long-standing trail race. Her vision for the future is to continue to give back to the Los Alamos and northern New Mexico communities, to cultivate a strong culture of inclusivity, to continue to focus on efforts at environmental sustainability, and to grow the race in both reach and opportunity.

The JMTR organizing committee would like to thank Tom Stockton and Bill Geist for serving as co-race directors for many years.  Bill began as race director in 2010 with a short absence from 2013 to 2015 when Tom served as RD.  Since Bill’s return to Los Alamos in 2016, Tom and Bill have served as co-race directors.  The JMTR is a community effort and Bill, Tom, and the rest of the JMTR organizing committee and volunteers are excited to support Laura in continuing to put on the exceptional event that is JMTR.