PUBLISHED WORK

On October 23, 2017, Guillaume Calmettes ran 245.832 miles to become the last man standing at the Big Dog Backyard Ultra. Here’s the story from the woman who cooked him a lot of soup.

Learning from legends and leaving his own, Tommy Nielsen passes down three decades of hard-earned knowledge.

I fought the good fight. And now, as I take a step in a new direction, it feels like I’m giving up.  In a political climate where women’s rights are in the forefront perhaps more than any other time in history, deciding to take off my cape and do less feels like anti-progress.

While at RPA, I was nominated for an award recognizing associates who do amazing things outside of the office. Since they hired me as a writer, they asked me to write about it.

We still had another major pass to go, but I could see a quiet smile begin to creep across Howie’s face.  One part relief, one part pride and a MILLION parts a feeling I’ll never know until my name gets picked in that damned lottery. 

Every once in awhile, someone wins their first attempt at racing a distance. Less often, that race happens to be a U.S. Championship. And even less often, maybe never, that person follows it up with a World Championship. Such is the legacy of Camille Herron, and it’s one she has crafted in less than six months.

These mountains made me fall in love with a city I could now call home. While I spend most of my life with Google Maps at my fingertips, the peaks and canyons became the only places where I truly knew exactly where I was.