News came out last week that the U.S. Mint is stopping production of the penny. It costs almost four cents to make a coin worth one. The math finally caught up with tradition. That got...

After 500 miles of training, here’s why the Peloton Tread+ is the best treadmill I’ve ever run on—smooth, quiet, accurate, and built for serious runners.

We called it the Super Course. It was a five-mile loop starting at the high school, winding through neighborhoods, past a cemetery, local parks, and elementary schools. During high school cross-country season, our team ran it...

Early in my career, I worked at Bain & Company, a top strategy consulting firm. Bain had a mantra for every new hire: Zero Defects. Every client deliverable had to be flawless—no typos, no wrong...

I’ve been rereading The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. I’ve always loved the opening of the story. Here’s Bilbo Baggins—an ordinary hobbit living in his cozy home under the hill, surrounded by food, a soft bed,...

The Peregrune Runner Multivitamin isn’t guesswork—it’s engineered around clinical studies on B-vitamins, C, E, D, A, and probiotics that support energy, recovery, and long-term endurance health.

During the week, I take my son to soccer practice. If the timing works out, I go for a run. I have a few routes I follow, but there’s one direction I stopped going a...

Machine learning and AI are everywhere these days. But the road here was long. In the early years of computing, researchers struggled to teach machines the difference between the letter B and the number 8....

I’m a Wave A runner—at least for now. I’m proud of that, but it didn’t start that way. I wasn’t an athlete in high school. I wasted most of my college years—and much of my...

Tennis great Roger Federer won 54% of the points he ever played. That’s it. Just 54 out of every 100. And yet—he’s one of the greatest tennis players of all time. Twenty Grand Slam titles. Over...

After I finished my first marathon, I didn’t celebrate for long. Instead, I thought, Well, I need to run another one—just to prove that wasn’t a fluke. Same thing happened the first time I broke 3...

There’s a billboard in my neighborhood that I pass on my runs. It asks a simple question: Addiction or Recovery? It’s part of a public health campaign—aimed at alcohol and drug addiction—but it always hits...

There’s a writer named Joseph Campbell who studied myths and stories from around the world — ancient Greece, Native American legends, tribal folktales, old epics. After years of research, he noticed something curious. The stories...

Do you remember your first runner’s high? I do. I was living in New York City, getting back into running after a long break. That night, I was on the East River trail near Battery...

Every hobby has its pinnacle. In deep-sea wreck diving, that pinnacle is the Andrea Doria—a grand Italian ocean liner that sank in 1956 after colliding with another ship in heavy fog off Long Island. She...