A weekly letter about running across countries, aging without slowing down, dogs who changed my life, and the people and places along the way.
Movement is a Privilege
I measure my pace by whether I can still hold a conversation. Then I heard a woman living with ALS explain what she recorded into a text to speech app so her real voice would say it out loud. Two men came back to me at once: Jamey, who crewed my Brazil 135, and my Uncle Walter, who kept running marathons from a wheelchair.
A Lucky and True Story
Five years ago, my canine soulmate Lucky Caminho died. This is the story of the night a skinny street dog in the mountains of Brazil disappeared into the dark, then found his way back to me six miles later, and never really left.
