“I started running the summer before my senior year of college.
I was like, I’m gonna try this for the millionth time and then it just kind of stuck.
I trained for a 10k that fall of my senior year of college and after that, decided to train for a half marathon
….I don’t really know why it stuck but that’s how I got started.
I remember I ran every single day in September. I did not take a day off.
I was going to the (indoor) track at Concordia when it started to get cold. You have to do eight laps for a mile. It was grueling running eight and then switching around, so I don’t really know why it stuck.
I went off to my senior year of college and then I came back for Thanksgiving and I was 50 pounds lighter. Just crazy.
And then I went back (to school) and then I lost another 30 pounds.
It was a really big transformation for me.
That was in 2012. I didn’t run my first marathon until 2017. It took training for that first marathon to take me to the next level.
That happened because I was out running on the river and I ran into a running group called Capital City Runners
They were like, ‘you should run with us.’
And so I went the next week and they were going to run 14 miles that day. So I ran with them and I almost died. But it was really meaningful because if not for them I would have not really known how to prepare for a marathon. Soon after is when I ran my first marathon (Twin Cities in 2017).”
Adding Dogs and Kids
“I knew I wanted to keep my running up, but I also didn’t want to leave Lily with a baby so I was like ‘I’m gonna at least push him in the stroller.’
The day he turned six months I got him in the stroller and took him.
We’ve had a few meltdowns (with Calvin) out on the trail, but overall, he kind of likes it.
It can be an ordeal, especially in the winter getting Calvin in his snowsuit and Rosie (the dog) into her harness.
Half the battle is getting out of the house.
It’s made me a better runner for sure.
It’ll be really funny to push two of them (editor’s note: Clark and his wife, Lilly, recently had a second child; Crosby).”