Tyler Andrews
QT: 2:17:44
Residence: Cambridge, MA
Hometown: Concord, MA
College: Tufts University
Age on Race Day: 29
Affiliation: HOKA ONE ONE
Qualifying Race: People's United Bank Vermont City Marathon 2018
Marathon Best: 2:15:52
Social Handles: Instagram/Twitter - @tylercandrews
Favorite inspirational quote: “No one single instant of it was unendurable. Here was a second right here: he endured it. What was undealable-with was the thought of all the instants all lined up and stretching ahead, glittering. … It’s too much to think about. To Abide there. But none of it’s as of now real. What’s real is the pain … He could just hunker down in the space between each heartbeat and make each heartbeat a wall and live in there. Not let his head look over. What’s unendurable is what his own head could make of it all. What his head could report to him, looking over and ahead and reporting. But he could choose not to listen; he could treat his head like clueless noise. He hadn’t quite gotten this before now: everything unendurable was in the head, was the head not Abiding in the Present but hopping the wall and doing a recon and then returning with unendurable news you then somehow believed.” – David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest.
Favorite book: Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
Go-to breakfast: Smoked salmon on a bagel with hummus
Favorite sports team: The Bowerman Babes
Of Note:
- Co-director of STRIVE Trips, offering international running and community-service experiences
- Silver medalist, 2016 50K World Championships
- Was treated for an often-fatal childhood illness called a-plastic anemia (similar to childhood leukemia) at the age of 6
- 2019 USATF 50 Mile Road Champion; second-fastest American ever at 50K (2:46:06)
