Compilation of articles and press

Articles/Essays I wrote elsewhere on the internet

Will run for pie!

An article in Vietnamese (interview done in English with Bruce Vu) for Chay365, a run club in Vietnam
Running With atlasGO and Back on My Feet
How David became both an atlasGO and Garmin Ambassador!
99th Statuto Race hosted by the San Francisco Italian Athletic Club
“David and Megan Roche, a husband-and-wife coaching team based in Boulder, Colorado, have a very strict philosophy when it comes to coaching: Some Work, All Play (SWAP). This ideology came in handy for San Francisco-based runner David Tran after realizing he missed a turn in a trail race, bumping him from fourth place to fifth. ‘I normally would have been really hard on myself for such a dumb mistake since I had studied the map,’ said Tran. ‘But I texted David [Roche], and he immediately helped me see how funny the situation was—I sprinted so fast past someone that I sprinted right past the finish, basically. In the grand scheme of things, I’ll probably remember this story and get a kick out of it for much longer than I’ll remember whether I got fourth of fifth at a race.’” Read more →
“The 41st Jed Smith Ultras was flat and fast along the American River Parkway in northern California. Sergio Morales and second-overall Bev Anderson-Abbs won the 50-mile race in 6:15 and 7:07, and David Tran and Sunduk Kim won the 50k in 3:33 and 4:11.” Read more →