OUR STORY

Built From a Passion for Endurance

Ultraverse was founded on a simple idea: endurance athletes deserve exceptional products, unforgettable races, and a company that genuinely understands the world of ultrarunning.

We’re Chase and Casey Hammond, the husband-and-wife team behind Ultraverse Supplements and Ultraverse Races. What started as a passion for ultrarunning and sports nutrition has grown into something much bigger. Today, we develop specialized endurance supplements and organize ultramarathons ranging from shorter trail races and backyard ultras to 100-mile and 200-mile endurance events.

Ultrarunning has been a huge part of our lives for years, and everything we do is built around the sport and community we love.

HOW IT ALL STARTED

A Passion for Ultrarunning and Nutrition

I’m Chase, founder of Ultraverse Supplements. I’ve spent years competing in ultramarathons, including some of the longest and most demanding races in the sport. In 2024, I completed the Destination Trail Triple Crown of 200s, an experience that gave me an even greater appreciation for what athletes endure over multiple days on the trail.

My educational background includes a Master’s degree in Clinical Nutrition from Maryland University of Integrative Health and a Bachelor’s degree in Health and Human Performance from Fort Hays State University. I’m also a UESCA Certified Ultrarunning Coach.

I’ve always been fascinated by the physical and psychological demands of ultra-endurance competition. The combination of fatigue, nutrition, hydration, sleep deprivation, and the mental challenge of continuing forward for hours—or days—makes ultrarunning unlike almost anything else. While studying nutrition, I began researching supplements specifically for ultra-endurance athletes.

Our pantry quickly became a small supplement warehouse. Casey used to joke that I had developed an addiction to buying supplements. At one point, I even purchased a capsule-filling machine so I could experiment with my own formulations. But there was a reason for all of it. I wanted to understand what actually worked, what the research supported, and how nutrition and supplementation could better address the unique demands of endurance athletes.

Eventually, I decided to stop searching for the products I wanted and start creating them myself.

Ultraverse Supplements was born.

TWO BACKGROUNDS. ONE PASSION.

Although I founded Ultraverse, this has always been a journey Casey and I have shared. Casey holds a Master’s degree in Holistic Nutrition from the American College of Healthcare Sciences and brings another valuable perspective to our approach to nutrition, product development, and the business as a whole.

Casey knows the sport inside and out. She’s crewed me through countless ultramarathons, including multi-day 200-mile races, and has experienced firsthand what happens to athletes as fatigue, nutrition, hydration, sleep deprivation, weather, and the sheer difficulty of these events begin to take their toll.

As Ultraverse Races has grown, she’s become just as immersed in the race-directing side of the sport. Today, we work together to operate Ultraverse Supplements and Ultraverse Races and are involved in nearly every aspect of the business—from developing products and organizing races to working aid stations, interacting with customers, and supporting runners at our events.

Ultraverse isn’t just what we do for a living. It’s a huge part of our lives.

ULTRAVERSE SUPPLEMENTS

Endurance Nutrition Without Compromise

Our original goal was to develop premium endurance supplements backed by research and designed specifically for the demands of endurance sports. That commitment continues today.

We believe endurance athletes should understand what they’re putting into their bodies and why those ingredients are included. Our approach emphasizes thoughtful formulations, quality ingredients, and meaningful amounts of the nutrients athletes need.

Our supplement lineup has evolved considerably since our earliest products. T-30 Daily Endurance Formula was our first product, developed to support the nutritional demands of endurance training. Terminus Post-Workout Recovery followed, providing a plant-based approach to post-exercise recovery.

As Ultraverse grew, we expanded into one of the most important—and difficult—aspects of endurance performance: fueling and hydration. Proxima C Endurance Fuel was developed to provide carbohydrates and electrolytes for athletes training and racing over long distances. Proxima C Ultra represents the next evolution of our endurance fueling philosophy, with a higher-carbohydrate formula developed specifically for the demands of ultra-endurance athletes. And Proxilytes provides a convenient electrolyte capsule option for athletes who want additional flexibility in managing their electrolyte intake during training and racing.

From ultramarathon nutrition to everyday endurance training, our goal remains the same:

Develop products we’re proud to use ourselves.

We don’t believe in including ingredients simply because they’re trendy or look impressive on a label. We believe in doing the research, understanding the science, and creating products with a purpose.

ULTRAVERSE RACES

From Running Ultramarathons to Creating Them

Eventually, our involvement in ultrarunning grew beyond competing. We wanted to create races of our own. Not simply events where runners show up, run a course, and receive a medal.

We wanted to create experiences athletes would remember for the rest of their lives.

Today, Ultraverse Races organizes endurance events across multiple states, including trail ultramarathons, backyard ultras, 100-mile races, and 200-mile ultramarathons. Our events include races such as the Cowboy 200, Summit 200, Hell Creek 100, Cowboy 100, Eternal Damnation Backyard Ultra, and others.

And we’re continuing to grow. The Hawkeye 200 expands our 200-mile race offerings and creates another opportunity for athletes to experience the challenge and adventure of covering 200 miles on foot.

As race directors who have experienced ultrarunning from virtually every angle—as runner, crew, race director, aid-station worker, and volunteer—we place tremendous importance on runner experience. Course design, aid-station support, communication, safety, organization, volunteers, and the countless little details that can make or break an ultramarathon matter to us.

We know what it’s like when a runner is exhausted, hungry, sleep-deprived, hurting, and wondering whether they can take another step. We’ve been there. And we want our runners to know that the people organizing their races understand what they’re going through.

MORE THAN A SUPPLEMENT COMPANY

Supporting the Endurance Community

One of the most rewarding parts of building Ultraverse has been the community that has grown around it. We’ve met incredible athletes, volunteers, crews, customers, ambassadors, and supporters who have become part of the Ultraverse family.

Our races bring together people from across the country—from runners attempting their first ultramarathon to experienced athletes pushing themselves across 100 or 200 miles. Some arrive hoping simply to finish. Others come to compete. Some accomplish exactly what they set out to do, while others discover just how brutally difficult these distances can be. All of them are part of what makes this sport special.

The same community supports our supplement business. Many of the athletes using our products are the same people we see standing on our starting lines, volunteering at our races, crewing their friends, and returning year after year.

That connection between our products, our races, and the people who use them has become one of the defining parts of Ultraverse.

We’re not watching the endurance community from the outside. We’re living in it.

THE ROAD AHEAD

Endurance Evolved.

When we started Ultraverse, we had no idea how much it would grow or how many incredible people we’d meet along the way. What began as a small supplement company has become a business built around nearly every aspect of the sport we love.

And we’re nowhere near finished.

We’ll continue developing innovative endurance nutrition, expanding and improving our races, and finding new ways to support the athletes and communities that make everything we do possible.

But no matter how much Ultraverse grows, we want to maintain what got us here in the first place: a genuine passion for endurance sports, a willingness to constantly improve, and a commitment to creating products and events that we’re proud to put our name on.

To everyone who has purchased our products, stood on one of our starting lines, volunteered at an aid station, crewed a runner, shared one of our posts, or simply supported us along the way: Thank you.

We know you have plenty of choices when it comes to endurance supplements and ultramarathons, and we genuinely appreciate you choosing Ultraverse.

We’ll see you out there.

Chase & Casey Hammond
Ultraverse Supplements LLC
Endurance Evolved.