Friends of the Bar, 0817 WYBJ, Vol. 40 No. 4. 62

Friends of the Bar

Vol. 40 No. 4 Pg. 62

Wyoming Bar Journal

August, 2017

Tyler Renner

Bar No. 7-5661 Law School: University of Wyoming College of Law

Basic Bio: I am a Wyoming native. I attended East High School in Cheyenne, and then double-majored at the University of Wyoming, graduating in 2012 with a B.S. in Kinesiology & Health Promotion and a B.A. in Spanish. I graduated from the UW College of Law in 2015. Following law school, I worked in private practice in Steamboat Springs. After getting married last year, I returned to Cheyenne and joined the Contracts Unit at the Attorney General’s Office. You can reach me at tyler.renner@ wyo.gov or (307) 777-7890.

Nobody would ever suspect that I have not taken a day off from running in over a decade. While I’ve been a lifelong runner, I began a “running streak,” which requires running at least one continuous mile every day, in December 2006. I started after reading an article about someone with a 40+ year running streak. I think the current record is now over 52 years. I thought it would be fun to try for a year, while failing to fully understand what the streak may develop into as a result. One year turned into two, and then three, and then ten and a half. Many stories have formed over those years. I continue because, at this point, how do you stop? I still love it most days. I may stop at some point, perhaps when our first child is born, but hopefully I can log a few more years on the streak first.

My favorite dinner party story is running my daily mile on a high school track trip at 11 p.m. between two lanes of stopped westbound traffic on I-80, because I was stranded overnight on a bus in a blizzard between Rawlins and Rock Springs and failed to plan ahead by running before we left.

While an undergraduate, I spent a semester studying in Argentina. I hiked around Patagonia, enjoyed delicious food and wine, and made wonderful...