I’m Ryan Dreyer.
I'm an endurance coach, entrepreneur, and leadership consultant.
I'm the Founder of Tribal Training, a team of dads and working professionals chasing endurance goals amidst full lives.
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 spark in life, so I 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. 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 people who hadn't signed up or started training.
2020 canceled every race on the calendar. So I went looking for any endurance event that was still going on.
That's when I found ultramarathons tucked deep in the woods.
I ran a 50k. Then signed up for a 100k 4 weeks later. I finished both.
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 of us 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 I realized I could coach guys side by side in ways you can’t in a triathlon.
In 2024 I took ten guys to run Zion 100 together. Only three finished. Everyone wanted to go back and settle the score.
But I thought we needed to do less, better. So I steered the team towards 50 milers.
Guys thought it was lame. Two years later we're 11 of 13 both times. Lower the bar, raise the execution has become a core coaching principle applied to any form of progress towards goals.
It’s how I’ve now coached over 400 dads across endurance finish lines with an average of 5 hours and 12 minutes of training time per week - a third of what the internet tells you you need.
Tribal now hosts four team events a year. 70.3s, Ironmans, ultras. My goal is for every Tribal athlete to make at least one team race a year.
Along the way my coaching opportunities expanded beyond athletics. The founders and CEOs within the Tribal team kept asking the same questions about their companies that they asked about their races.
Handling adversity. Finding leverage. Recovery and sustaining pace.
I've worked with Vistage, YPO, and Onward, among others.
These days I coach 60 athletes, write about how to train 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.
