On Friday December 5th I flew out to San Francisco to observe and provide crew support for a former student who recently joined the ultra-running world and quickly achieved elite status. He would be running the next day in…

“I qualified as an elite!” When my former student proudly told me this, and gleefully said that he had been asked to compete in The North Face Endurance Challenge Championship Race in the Marin Headlands, the sports nutritionist in me…