![]() Give a sapling 15 years, and very cool things can happen. A few years later, Alex helped me find a writing opportunity, and that writing opportunity is why you are reading this article today. Those little runs led to adaptations which supported bigger runs, which supported bigger risks, and one of those risks led to a post-race interview with this magazine. Thousands of saplings! It’s all about those bomb-ass saplings!įor me, a little over 2000 days later, it led to an overnight success at the 2012 US 10k Championships, where I won and was interviewed by Alex Kurt for Trail Runner Magazine. I didn’t need to have a forest on day 1, or even on day 1000. In those training books, I had read about weekly miles and workouts and all of these complex training principles that made me miss the forest through the trees. Mile or two by mile or two, I got a bit stronger and a bit faster. It was still impossible and terrible, but at least I could walk the next day. The next one a few days later was a bit easier. Those dreams were going to need to be on a delayed fuse.īut something started on that run, deep in my physiology. I got a few minutes up the driveway before I sputtered to a stop. Maybe I’d win some races! Running watched my announcement on ESPN, and as I put on my old basketball shorts and laced up my new Nikes, it responded like only running can: It was like “The Decision” by LeBron James when he announced he was taking his talents to South Beach–I was going to take whatever talents I had to running. I had big dreams! During that downtime between sports, I read training books and message boards, planning my next athletic steps. In 2006, a few months after quitting football in college, I went for the first endurance run of my adult life. ![]() Get access to everything we publish when you ![]()
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