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Traveling and trail running for me kind of grew together;
to me they are very similar things.
The one person that really inspired me to travel,
from the very beginning, was my own mother.
At 19 I dropped out of college for a couple of years
and travelled down to South America,
and that kind of started what I consider to be the current epic of my life,
which is life on the road more or less.
Going from Colorado to San Francisco, Colorado where I was born and raised,
and San Francisco that I’ve called home for the past couple of years.
It’s a journey I’ve made a few times over the past 10 or 15 years.
Even before that, with my mom and my siblings,
and it’s a trip that never gets old.
In America we’re very fortunate to have all of these open spaces to us,
but I think that these open spaces, and this wild land,
can really exist anywhere for anybody if you’re willing to go out and look for it.
You take the simplest sport, all you need is a pair of shoes and you’re off and running.
The adventures are really endless at that point.
It’s not all about going faster,
it’s not all about winning races or doing well in races,
it’s about...
what running means to me.
What do we take away from travels, ten or twenty years later?
It’s the stories that we have to tell
and I think at the end of our lives that’s all we’ve got.
All you’ve got are your stories.