How Did You Get Where You Are Now?

At one point I was training to be a scientist in environmental sciences and I was also a competitive runner 800 meter runner in college. One of my training partners uh who was also a close friend as they often are drop dead at the end of a race he was one of the top ranked people in his age group in the country. It turned out he had this genetic condition that was misdiagnosed it's almost always the cause of young athletes dropping dead. That got me interested in genetics and meanwhile I eventually was like living up in a tent in the Arctic studying the carbon cycle as part of my grad research. Eventually became the science writer at Sports Illustrated where I did write about sudden cardiac death and