Run Toward The Unknown™
The adventure is the product. The gear is the souvenir.
WHO WE ARE
We invite you to explore with us in the high alpine, to prioritize adventure, to sleep under the stars, to jog above tree line, to tag a few peaks all without your gear slowing you down.
Through our run club, we are designing and testing the most runnable packs in the industry. Performance products for the adventure seekers and endurance athletes alike.
Follow Yonder Running on Strava for monthly events, adventures, and clinics.
We are here to preserve the pure.
We believe the most valuable thing you take home from an adventure isn't the gear, it's the experience. We are forging a connection with nature in the high alpine terrain of the Rocky Mountains to provide quality goods for the outdoor community. The miles, the weather, the places you didn't plan to go, the people you met along the way, and the moments you couldn't have predicted. Those are the things worth collecting. Yonder exists to make the things that help you explore become the reminders of where you've been.
Yonder is our gift to the outdoors. Cherish it while it last.
About the Founder
By 16, Cody “Busy Brain” Blazek knew what he wanted to do for the rest of his life. As a creative mind, he customized sneakers for his classmates as a business in high school. Around the same time, he ran cross country and track while also working his first job selling shoes at a running store. Over the next ten years he immersed himself in running, design and community - learning every major brand, understanding how these businesses worked.
He poured himself into his art, studying industrial design and interning as a shoe designer for Adidas and Levis. After graduating college, he became head of design for a startup footwear company, beginning his trajectory of designing products across footwear, camping, military, and performance outdoor products for the next 12 years.
Each job became a sandbox. He learned how things were made, what people valued, and how to challenge convention. His determination eventually included patented innovations in running with the Ultimate Direction Xodus vest with many brands mimicking ever since.
But running was never just an activity. It was the the center of his philosophy.
After summiting all of Colorado's fourteeners in a single summer, sewing custom vests for friends preparing for ultras, and tagging along with every run club in Colorado, Cody became increasingly drawn to the freedom, exploration, and unexpected community found beyond the trailhead.
That is what became Yonder Running.
Built entirely by Cody and funded with his own resources, Yonder is the culmination of more than two decades spent on nearly every side of the running industry. It is a Colorado-born running brand built around obsessive product design, personal style, exploration, and the belief that the best gear should help you go farther without telling you who you're supposed to be.
Every product is designed, developed, tested, and worn by its founder and friends.
After years of working for everyone else, Cody is finally making what he wants for everyone else.
Run toward the unknown.