Training for Gold
6 min readNov 22, 2020
In May of 2017, the inevitable finally happened. I witnessed my father take his last breath on a mattress we set up for him on his bedroom floor. He was 75. I had just come back from being in Seoul, Korea for eight months acting in plays with the Seoul Shakespeare Company (I was cast as Prince Florizel in The Winter’s Tale) and kickstarting my life as a competitive athlete.