Guest Speaker

Robert Key is an ultramarathon veteran and all-world ironman competitor, and our 2025 the featured POW Marathon speaker!

Returning a decade after his first visit. Robert Key leverages his successful battle with a heart condition as the core of inspirational addresses to amateur runners.

The Houston-based competitor earned accolades as an “ironman all-world athlete” three times in the past decade. Key has also completed eight ultramarathons of 100 miles or longer. He competes now in the 65-and-older age group.

POW race organizers brought Key to the island as the pre-race speaker in 2015. He was eager to return and was encouraged by island residents who kept in touch with him after his inspiring first performance as a motivator and fellow runner.

Several POW runners have visited Key in Houston, where he’s notable as an advocate of running, and as a real estate professional.

Key has addressed race-affiliated audiences of as many as 3,000 people as a keynote speaker, and his career in business includes a term as chairman of the board of the Association of Commercial Real Estate Professionals.