“You can’t do a lot of the fun things you’d like to: snowboarding, parkour, cliff jumping, F1 racing. You’re pretty much married to the couch.” – Ashton Eaton, World/Olympic Champion [...]

I finish my run by making the familiar three-mile trek through the crowded streets of central Quito that lie between my current home at the Parque de la Carolina and [...]

A few weeks ago, I was talking with Jon about an upcoming workout. I had planned to run some fast 200m reps at the end of a quicker run and [...]

I wake up this morning before my alarm. This is usually a good sign – as my body adjusts to the (relative) reduction in self-imposed physical distress, I start waking [...]

When I look at the wall of my bedroom, which has now been plastered with three-and-a-half months worth of weekly training schedules, I’m reminded of something Jon said to me. [...]

I sometimes listen to the online broadcast of Boston’s NPR station here in Quito. Part of me likes the familiarity of the various hosts –Tom Ashbrook’s mellow interview voice like [...]

In early December, my coach, Jon, and I sat down at my parents’ house in suburban Massachusetts to discuss how I could best prepare for the Boston Marathon, then 19 [...]

Sometimes I feel like a broken record. When I first started to think about how to present this announcement, I felt that everything I wrote, I’d said before. When I [...]