Keith Wilson

Keith Wilson's upbringing was in Naknek, a remote Alaskan fishing town on the coast of Bristol Bay, where he returns every summer for the salmon season. He identifies as an ultra-distance runner, cross-country skier, commercial fisherman, avid comic book geek, and branch of driftwood floating with the tide. This essay is about how he was started on this path.

Driftwood

As a student at Northern Michigan University, I ran for hours on the wooded trails and the paved bike paths along the shores of Lake Superior in Marquette, Michigan, where driftwood accumulated on the sand. I wasn’t a collegiate athlete or even a competitive one. Running had nothing to do with school except for keeping me from studying.
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