Perspective
Photo by Emily Maye
2021 US Olympic Trials
Fast-forward four years to 2020 and you would find me doing much more studying than running, preparing for my PhD Candidacy qualifying exams to be held in May of that year. I was fully prepared to watch another Olympic cycle come and go without so much as toeing the start line, but we all know what happened next…
Exercise in Futility
There’s nothing like a supportive text from a friend to help you pick yourself back up: “It is pretty incredible how bad you are at the mile. Have you thought about, like, running faster?” What a revelation.
Hindsight is…
A more diligent documentarian did indeed dedicate to detailing progress daily, but in the spirit of marking another revolution around spaceship earth’s nearest star a call for a wider lens is in order. The following statistics, exported from my Strava account, provide a look through such a lens.
Defenestrate
To Old Goals and Beginning Anew
On this forum, you will mainly find workouts and long runs which I deem either impressive or catastrophic enough to share — do not fear being inundated with banal musings on the common recovery run; although I do reserve the right to provide such insight should impulse befall me. Now, let us begin to wander through the mind of this middle distance runner as he wanders along the road to Eugene and beyond.
Photo Credits (L to R)
Top Banner: 1 and 4 by Luke Warhurst, 2 by Johnny Zhang, 3 by Emily Maye
Bottom Banner: 1 and 3 by Luke Warhurst, 2 by Shalini Kota