Hello I’m Ryan Dreyer.
I’m an endurance coach, entrepreneur, and leadership consultant.
Specifically, I’m the Founder and Head Coach of Tribal Training, a team of dads and working professionals chasing big athletic goals on limited time.
In 2019 (when I was 26), I was selling healthcare payment tech at JP Morgan, cold calling small doctors offices from a cubicle in Center City Philadelphia.
I needed a new spark in life, so signed up for a 70.3 ten weeks out. The plan was to wing it, finish, and move on with my life.
But God had other plans.
That spring I broke my ankle playing ice hockey. Surgery. Then a year of recovery. Instead of training, I spent 2019 wheeling myself to the subway on a medical scooter.
The new goal was to be able to dance at my wedding that fall.
I started sharing about my journey to the start line anyway.
I was just figuring it out as I went. But I was a guy one step ahead of the people who hadn’t signed up or started training.
Then 2020 canceled every race on the calendar. So I went looking for something nobody could cancel - ultramarathons tucked deep in the woods.
I ran a 50k. Then signed up for a 100k 4 weeks later.
In 2021, I finally raced the 70.3. I went sub-5 and qualified for the World Championships.
That was the year I started coaching beginners toward their first finish lines.
Tribal really took off when I took a group of powerlifters (Zach Homol, Mike Donatelli, and others) to their first Ironman.
That was Ironman Florida 2022. I raced alongside them and 7 other Tribal athletes. All 8 finished.
The team Ironman was born that day. We’ve run one every year since.
In 2023, that same group of powerlifters wanted to run their first ultra. I ran it with them, stride for stride, coaching them through pacing, run/walk strategies, aid stations.
That experience unlocked Team Ultras where we stick together from start to finish.
Tribal now hosts four team events a year. 70.3s, Ironmans, ultras. Nobody shows up alone.
I’ve coached over 400 dads across endurance finish lines. Their average training week is 5 hours and 12 minutes per week.
Along the way the coaching outgrew endurance.
The founders and CEOs within Tribal team kept asking the same questions about their companies that they asked about their races.
Handing adversity. Finding leverage. Recovery and sustaining pace.
I’ve since worked with Onward, Vistage, and YPO.
These days I coach 60 athletes, write about how to train on as a dad with a full life, and make Maple Boost - my real food endurance supplement that helped me skip all the fake sugars and 15 ingredient gels along the way.
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