Matt Huerta

Age: 26
Events: 5K/10K to Half Marathon/Marathon
Hometown: Washington, DC
College competed for: Claremont-Mudd-Scripps

Personal Bests

17:54 (5K)
29:25 (8K)
1:01:21 (10-mile)
1:22:44 (HM)

Career Highlights

2022 Cascade Lakes Relay — Ran 4 legs as part of the eventual overall winning team, “Fellowship of the Run”

Spring 2020: Ran two virtual 5K races in March and April spaced roughly a month apart, both times setting unofficial PRs, first of 17:39 (Seward Park), and 17:30 (Garfield HS track).

2019 California Int’l Marathon — Ran first marathon (previously I’d sworn I’d never do this haha)

2018 Biofreeze San Francisco 2nd Half Marathon — 35th Overall and a HM PR by 3 minutes, 46 seconds

About

I first became involved with Club Northwest while interning with Boeing in Seattle during the summer of 2018, prior to my senior year of college in California. At that time I was completely new to the PNW but also wanted to get serious about doing real workouts again. I started coming out to the Tuesday workouts run by Ashley Nichols and Spencer Walsh, and set a major HM PR later that same summer. Once I returned to Seattle full-time the following summer, I officially joined the club, met Tom Cotner and Mark Bloudek, and haven’t looked back since! I look forward to running with the club for years to come — chasing my goals thru racing, training, and volunteering — all while making new friends along the way. :)

Volunteer Work

Has helped out at numerous CNW events in a variety of capacities -- All-Comers meets, XC races, and other club-hosted time-trials/road races/events. I enjoy being a team player! :)

Pronouns

he/him