Escape the riptide

Are you caught in the riptide, the current, the slipstream of life? If you are, you aren’t alone. Back at the beginning of the year, we set an important business goal. Then realized this week, that we’d done nothing, really, to advance it. One day turns...

Running For Your Life

Why? Why do you run? I get this question a lot. Especially now as I train for my 100 mile ultra. I could give a George Mallory-like response when asked why he wanted to climb Everest: he said, “Because it’s there.” “I run because I can,” I might say. Which, like...

A Terrible Thing

Regret is a terrible thing. I don’t have many. But one stands out. The trip of a lifetime. With my dad. He’d invited me to climb to Everest Base Camp with him. The two of us had learned to climb together. He was running a continuing medical education program for...