42clicks is obviously a reference to the 42 kilometers in a marathon.

Anyone who has ever trained up to marathon distance or beyond and completed a race of this nature has some form of demented attachment to it, good or bad. For me, the attachment is one I revisit every time I lace up the shoes for a long run. Each 42 is a beautiful journey. Each has an unpredictable ending. Each requires a different level of suffering. Each has a unique triumph or unravelling. Each requires reliance on training, planning, and experience to persevere through whatever horrible things the body, mind, course, weather, or cosmos will throw your way. And I love it.

Beyond the distance, 42clicks is the core to my business and life philosophies. All good things take time, and achieving success requires pain and a big box of Band-Aids. There are no shortcuts and there will be many bumps and bruises along the trail, so if you’re looking for get-rich-quick advice or insights, it won’t be from me.

42clicks is not a how-to marathon blog. I’m simply not the guy anyone should be taking endurance-running lessons from. I’m the unlikeliest of heroes even in my own life and hopefully this is part of the charm that renders my story approachable.

42clicks is also not a how-to business blog. Despite being ambitious and equipped with a can-do attitude and iron resolve, I’m hardly the stereotypical business leader. That said, I know how to dream big, to establish goals and plans, and to commit to seeing things through. I have an uncanny ability to the see the possibility in everything, but the common sense to know when to shift gears and change course. A lot of my business skillset derives from endurance running and the deep, dark woods it forces me to navigate and conquer daily serve me well in other areas of my life.

42clicks is basically another step in the journey to find my next big thing. It’s an introspective collage of my thoughts and experiences, which will hopefully provide the occasional useful tidbit.

Note: this is probably the happiest recorded photo of me, taken by another runner (Kelly Stevens – Bib 456) using my iPhone during the 2024 Red Rock Canyon Marathon in Nevada, a third of the way up a particularly difficult, but absolutely stunning, 10-km climb in the canyon.