E62: Drew Best | The Shreddy Professor

Dr. Andrew Best joins the show this week.  A Cat 1 mountain biker and assistant professor of biology at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts his IG handle is aptly the “shreddy_professor”.  Make no mistake, if you talk that talk you darn well better be ready to back it up.  And he has, for a few decades now, both on two feet and lately on two wheels.  As an elite level road runner in his 20’s and early 30’s he developed a passion for marathoning and became pretty good at it in the process with a 102nd overall finish at the 2007 Boston Marathon and an overall win at the 2009 Providence Marathon.  But a very mysterious foot injury forced him off the pavement onto a more favorable surface and a more compatible community.  Throughout his 30’s trail and mountain running would be come what he would describe as his most favorite training and racing he’s ever done.  And no surprise, he was really good at that too.  But in 2019, once again because of injuries, he'd be forced to walk away from those sports as well.  His landing spot?  I’ll let him tell that part of the story.  Guest Provided Links: IG @shreddy_professor https://www.therunningprimate.com/