Reflections on the struggle towards the heights.
Hi there! My name is David. I’m an endurance athlete, college student with ADHD, and writer passionate about trail running, strength & conditioning, neurodivergence, and education.
I first fell in love with endurance sports as a kid, first mountain biking and then road cycling throughout junior high and high school. I found that something about the combination of the solitude, the absolute awe of the mountains, and the hours of physical exertion brought me a sense of calm and self-understanding that I couldn’t find anywhere else. Cycling became my life: Beyond the many miles spent in the saddle, I spent hours in my backyard building a pump track, reading Joe Friel’s books, and many more hours daydreaming of building trails in the mountains.
Then as an adult, I found running—which gave me everything that cycling did, and brought me even deeper into the solitude of the mountains, first completing a trail 50k, and then later a road marathon. However, over the last six years, a combination of injuries and life lead to me running inconsistently at best. Yet at the darkest moments in my life, I always turned to running to get through it.
For the last year, I’ve been slowly working to reclaim the dreams that I once had as a child — of making endurance sports my life, if I only have the courage to go and chase it. After years of PT, pain, and some pretty dark days, I’m training again. My first race back is a 12 hour backyard-style on October 24th in Granite Bay; I have 50ks on Jan 9th and Feb 6th, and on July 24th of next year, the Lost Sierra 100k.
This is my website and blog, a catalogue of my writing, thoughts, hopes, and dreams.