15/06/2026
The idea of ‘walking as art’ has been around for a while now, but pushes things even further—upping the pace to turn running into an artform in its own right.
Although he started out in the competitive world (winning some of the most notorious trail marathons our planet has to offer), over the last decade he’s pivoted towards a more imaginative strain of athleticism which he dubs ‘conceptual running’.
In 2017 he ran the width of the United States on an unsupported solo-mission which took him from South Carolina to San Francisco. Neither record attempt or brand-backed marketing stunt, his Transamericana project was more like Travels with Charley in a pair of Salomons, as he used the 3,700 mile jaunt as a way to process the country and its people.
A year later he kept things a little more local—zig-zagging around San Francisco with mathematical precision as he ran every single street in the city. Focussing less on time, and more on experience, his projects go beyond the usual metrics running is measured in to delve into bigger and deeper subjects.
With a new book on the way cataloguing the 50 classic trails of the USA, we called him up to talk about this ‘conceptual running’ business and the reality of running across America with a thrift-shop golf caddy. Click the link in our bio for the full story...
