Loving The Grind One Mile At A Time
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Improving Team Collaboration Using A Structured Session
An effective team doesn’t just get along with each other. They work together on solving problems and figuring things out. Getting along and being friendly tends to be easy while actually coming together and tackling big messy problems is hard. At a recent leadership offsite for my pillar, we decided to take this one head… Read more
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2025 Running Year In Review: Committing To Boundaries
This was a breakout year for me however, it didn’t start in 2025. It was 2024, a year where I plateaued. I didn’t stick to my boundary between work and personal life. I was still running consistently and racing often. On the outside, it looked like things were normal but for me, I knew I… Read more
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Being an Injury Free Daily Runner: My Step 1 – Building Volume
When I started to become a daily runner, it wasn’t about performance or speed. It was about creating personal space. During the pandemic, I just needed more time to think, to process. Running gave me that time I needed and because of that it ended up becoming a daily routine. Running has always been apart… Read more
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Helping Mentees Find A Personal Vision
It’s pretty common for mentors to assume that their mentees have a vision for themselves. In fact, there are many that start off mentoring where they think that their mentees have one that is similar to their own. That assumption, however, is frequently false. It isn’t just that there are differences. Most mentees haven’t spent… Read more
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Using Audiobooks to Learn a New Language While Running
For the past two months, I’ve been learning Spanish during my training runs. It started as an experiment to see if I could do something with the gobs of hands free time I have while running. I already run almost every day and generally it is for more than an hour. I basically spend what… Read more
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Good Mentorship Starts with Good Mentor / Mentee Fit
At work, people are often asked to mentor someone with the bests of intentions but with very little practical direction. That commonly plays out with a manager saying “This person has lots of potential. Can you do some mentoring to get them to the next level?”. That feels reasonable and if you have been in… Read more
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Grit, Chips, and M&Ms: How Ultras Became My Personal Growth Plan
I didn’t expect one ultra marathon to have such a big impact on my life. When I signed up to do my first last year, I had several marathons under my belt and was at the point that I felt I could comfortably keep going after completing one. I saw there was literally one that… Read more
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