Charlie started running in junior high to get around rather than biking up Pittsburgh’s gnarly hills. He started racing because the eighth grade track coach told him he wasn’t allowed to throw anymore after he lost a discus on an overgrown hillside. Luckily, his cross country coach knew what he was doing and helped make the transition from hobby to competition seamless. His college coach made him never want to stop running and now he’s one of the old guys on the Georgetown Running Club team.