This Arlington man ran from San Fransisco to Rehoboth and did not stretch once.
, with my encouragement, props his left ankle up on his right knee and gently slips off a canvas shoe to reveal the most disgusting foot I’ve ever seen.
Wardian taking a Vo2 Max test to measure how much Oxygen he uses during exercise. Photograph courtesy of Michael Wardian.
Even as a child growing up in Oakton, Wardian had an obsessive, competitive nature. The day his parents got him an Atari, he played Pac-Man for 18 hours straight until he beat the whole thing and had a blister on his thumb. He got into lacrosse and wanted to practice every day, so his dad built him a goal out of wood and Wardian “would break the corners off of it.
Wardian knew even then that his goal was to become a professional runner. He was a natural at long distances, an easy early riser. “I love moving through the world under my own power in that way,” he says. “I like the sense of adventure you get every time you go out for a run.” And he wanted to avoid a fate he’d seen befall so many others: “A lot of people get locked in a corporate life.
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