Mike ran his first few 5Ks at 10 years old with his dad, but didn’t pick up the running bug again until grad school. After running the 2008 Marine Corps Marathon based on solo training, Mike joined DC Road Runners in 2011 for some company on long runs while training for his second marathon, which led to marathons 3 through 8 in the following years. Mike is currently the club's Saturday Long Run (SLR) leader, and is also a regular at weekly Monday night tempo runs.
Mike is a lifelong Virginian, from Charlottesville, to Newport News, to Arlington, to Springfield. His favorite annual race is the Charlottesville Ten Miler, which he returns to every year whenever possible. Mike works as a mechanical engineer on design and analysis of aerospace structures.
