I’ve been a sporadic runner for a large chunk of my life.  I ran a lot as a kid, a lot more in the army, and I’ve done my fair share of obstacle/mud-runs as an adult. I officially got bit by the running bug in July 2013, when for the next 10 months (with the […]

The morning of the 21st of December 2010 was supposed to dawn with me crossing the Kenya-Uganda border on a bus headed to Uganda on a one-week sight-seeing road trip. I had never been to Uganda and I was looking forward to bungee jumping, taking a boat up the River Nile, and experiencing the infamous […]

For years, I was an overweight friend and a son. It all started when I actually dropped playing basketball as a kid and focused more on secondary school studies. It kept going that way for four years and many more to come. Overeating happened to be a sneaky habit slowly replacing other sources of happiness in […]

Growing Up  The last time I was “thin” I was six years old. Most of my life I didn’t care in the world what I ate or when. Throughout school, I was the fat kid, the one who got called names, picked last for sports teams, or had notes from a parent excusing me from […]

I wasn’t planning on running the Boston Marathon this year. As the CEO of a scaling startup and the father of a one-year-old son, I am lucky I have time to eat lunch every day, let alone log the miles required to train properly for a marathon. But when a number opened up and I […]