Hello again!
I’m thrilled if you made it this far. . .
First, a bit about me:
Running, as something consciously done for it’s own sake, found me at the ripe age of fifteen, living in suburbs about an hour north of Los Angeles in Southern California. I found myself enrolled on the high school cross country team and despite my best efforts to continue filling my days with skateboarding, video games and general nihilism, I remained on the team through my first season. Mostly because I met a girl on the team, followed closely by a found love of competition, having made friends and at some undefinable point along the way, I had become a runner. My mother too ran, she never shoved it down my throat, she hardly ever mentioned it, running was always simply part of her daily routine. After she’d passed I awoke to how much her example of having already run every morning before waking me up for school in the morning had affected me.
I ran competitively through High School and a few years of college. Cut to about three quarters of a decade later and my twenty’s seemed to had disappeared. Countless occurrences of poor decision making, the discovery of numerous chemicals that have incredible effects on the mind and poof. . .
I woke up in my late twenty’s with a career managing restaurants, living with the daily goal of having as much fun as I could in the time I felt was allotted me in this life. Somewhere within the last two years of my life’s second decade I realized I wanted a different type of life. I managed to straighten myself out into a respectable enough person so that my wonderful wife married me. The thought of being a father had never crossed my mind but I have found myself with an eight year old boy and a girl of five. . . I wouldn’t want a life without them.
Throughout my life, even at my worst, I had always managed to run at least a couple times a week. Something about running kept the flame alive through life’s biggest storms; or perhaps running was the light seen through life’s cloudier times. In either case, since my daughter was born running has become more serious, I’ve attacked the marathon a hand full of times and ventured further on a couple occasions. Along with my family and running my passions are reading, the guitar and music, as well as a daily meditation practice.
My request:
Now. . . If you’re still reading, again I thank you and I would imagine this is all you’d need to know about me to begin. What I would like is to know more about you and to do that I ask for some of your most valuable resource, an amount of your time.
I would love to speak, in the form of a conversational interview and dig deep into your life and running. I’d like to record the conversation but if this makes you uncomfortable in any way, it is not necessary. I would at minimum reserve the right to use our conversation in any number of future projects I have in mind, articles for publication, blog, podcast, a book, etc. Of course I’d grant you the right to strike any comment made during our conversation from the record at any time during the conversation or any time after. I want you to feel comfortable in understanding that you can rethink or re-articulate anything said while we speak.
If you’re interested please respond. I’m currently on the road, traveling for the next few months and am willing to work around your availability. If you’re up for a conversation about your running let me know:
-What time zone you’re in.
-When and for how long you’d be willing to chat.
-Preferred method of communication: Via Instagram, FaceTime, Skype or whatever else is out there these days.
-I have some questions prepared, if you’d like them in advance let me know.
Any questions or suggestions you may have for me are also welcome.
Thanks and I look forward to hearing from you.
