It's no secret that fitness is a pretty important part of my life, but it hasn't always been that way. I stumbled onto it during a difficult time when I was transitioning out of a long-term ...

Every runner starts somewhere. For me, it began with an accident—a step off a curb that twisted some tendons in my ankle, leaving me injured and on crutches for a few weeks. I was in graduate school, ...

Last fall, after backpacking around 270 miles on the Long Trail through the rugged Green Mountains of Vermont, my fellow campers and I discussed how we were now in the best shape of our lives. Around ...