About

I came to running rather late in life with little to no athletic background. I wasn’t on the track or cross country team in high school or college. I learned to be a runner the same way many of you have, through trial and error, through squeezing in runs around a busy work/life schedule, and through passionate determination. I self coached myself for my first 2 marathons, starting at 4:10 in 2017 and then running a 3:33, one year later in 2018. My goal in that second marathon was to Boston Qualify and that’s what I did, I ran a BQ -7.

I’ve since gone on to best my marathon time again and then again, running a 3:05 (a BQ -30) in 2019 one year after my first qualifier and following that up another year later with my first sub 3 marathon (2:58) in 2020.

But this is not the story of some exceptional long time athlete. This is not the story of a born distance runner. This is the story of how hard work and a commitment to pursuing the big gains, while not overlooking the small, can transform an everyday recreational runner into the best version of themselves.

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