Mike Bouscaren began running long distance events following decades of team and individual sports competition. He found ultrarunning's elemental spirituality so refreshingly free of hype and fanfare that he was compelled to chronicle his adventures. For athletes and truth seekers alike, his story recalls the essential message that while in competition there is only one first place, others who contend are not precluded from winning in a more personal sense. Mike attended Yale University and Harvard Business School and has spent most of his professional life as an investment advisor. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts with his wife and three children.