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Why I make these

I spent years figuring things out alone — training plans, race nutrition, living abroad, managing AS, gear that actually works. A lot of it I had to learn through trial and error because there wasn’t anyone who’d done it before me.

These guides are the shortcut I didn’t have. Take them, use them, and if they help — you know where to find me.

When No One Has Done It Before You
New · 2026
My story, in full
When No One Has Done It Before You
How I navigated sport, chronic illness, and life with no roadmap — and what it taught me. Seven chapters built from six years of racing, moving abroad, managing AS, and eventually making it to the Olympics. Honest, practical, and free.
Mindset
Chronic Illness
Athlete Life
Olympics
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How to Pick the Right Races (and Stop Wasting Entry Fees)
Terrain, timing, travel cost, your current fitness, your goals — how I actually decide what to race and what to skip. Built from years of racing skimo, trail, and mountain running across three continents on a shoestring.
Race Planning
Skimo
Trail Running
Athlete Life
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Coming soon
Moving Abroad as an Athlete: The Actual Hacks
Health insurance that works, banking without getting screwed, finding housing near trails, visa realities, and how to not lose your mind doing it alone. Australia → Idaho → Colorado → France. Everything I wish someone had told me.
Moving Abroad
France
Athlete Life
Practical
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Racing Abroad on Almost No Money
Cheap flights to race venues, gear that doubles as luggage, free accommodation through the athlete community, car hire hacks in Europe, race travel on a budget that actually works. I went to the Olympics living off DJ gigs. Here’s how.
Budget Travel
Race Travel
Europe
Practical
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Training and Racing With a Chronic Illness
Ankylosing spondylitis, biologics, timing treatment around race calendars, managing flare-ups, what to tell coaches and what to keep to yourself. The guide I needed when I was first diagnosed and completely lost.
AS
Chronic Illness
Training
Health
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