The runner behind Split.

I’m Andrew. I’ve been running most of my life: youth meets in 5th grade, a high school team that won districts and regionals, then the mile and steeplechase at Virginia. In 2009 I finished 4th in the steeplechase at the first ACC track championship in school history, and I ran the whole race with one shoe.

After college I stopped for almost ten years. I picked it back up in 2020 when my dad got sick. Runs became a good excuse to call him and talk about something other than his illness, and he always had opinions about my training, the way he had my whole life. He died in 2021, but the running stuck. He left behind decades of coaching material, and working through it at Growing Runners has been a way to stay close to him.

These days I train and race seriously again, and I’ve gotten faster every year, around three kids and a day job. Split came out of my own training. I wanted one place to build a plan, measure myself against it, and keep the whole story of a season without digging through old chats and spreadsheets. So I built it, and now it’s the coach in my pocket.