Designer. Runner.
I design digital products and run mountains, roads & ultras. Each with intention & purpose.
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I design digital products and run mountains, roads & ultras. Each with intention & purpose.
Running and design have a similar shape. Both are iterative. Both require building something incrementally before you trust it under pressure. You put in the base miles because the long run doesn't work without them. I've found the same is true with design: you can't skip the foundational thinking and expect the hard problems to go well.
Trail running keeps me in the mountains. Road running keeps the discipline sharp in between. Both require the same thing: you build a base, you trust the process, and the day rewards it.
Most of my racing happens on trail: technical mountain terrain, significant vertical gain, routes that require attention to navigate. The terrain changes the nature of the effort completely. Pace becomes secondary. Footing, position, and reading what's ahead become the work.
Locally technical & rugged 13.1+ mile mountain race with decent elevation gain, steep climbs, cliffs, and rock scrambles.
High-alpine terrain, featuring steep vertical climbs, off-trail scrambling, snow slopes, and the infamous "Stairway to Heaven" ladder.
Follows the historic non-motorized Black Canyon Trail along increasingly rocky, technical, and hilly terrain in the Sonoran Desert.
Alpine lollipop loop traversing a mix of grassy/rocky ski slopes and loose gravel service roads with grades up to 40%.
Road running is a different discipline: more structured, more metric-driven. The terrain doesn't change, so the variables narrow to pace, fueling, and whether the training held.
An iconic tour Brooklyn,from Prospect Park to the Coney Island Boardwalk.
The largest day of road racing in the state & a historic tour of the city.
The largest marathon in the world,55k finishers and millions of spectators.
The flattest & fastest of the six Abbott World Marathon Majors.
I've run 50ks, 50-milers, and 100ks. The distance changes what the effort asks: physical preparation matters, but retaining discipline & mental fortitude across 10, 12, 15 hours becomes critical here.
27x laps around a short, 2.3 mile horseshoe loop in the desert.
50-miles point-to-point. The oldest continuously held ultra in the USA.
A rugged 50k with over 6k+ feet of technical climbing & shattered rock gardens.
51-mile run with 38 miles on the sandy beach between Cape Fear & Fort Fisher.
Multi-day races & long-game challenges that accumulate over months: requiring planning and a different relationship with the goal. You're not peaking for one day. You're managing across several.
Three consecutive & demanding days of racing in Olympic Valley (VK, 46k, & 23k).
The 67 peaks above 4,000 feet across Maine, New Hamsphire, Vermont & New York.
8 gnarly routes in the Northeast, each completed in less than 24 hours. Finisher #68!
Four in a row! 35 peaks in four consecutive seasons - Spring, Summer, Winter, Fall.
