Ted McDonald is an endurance athlete, yoga teacher, personal trainer, and entrepreneur. He has done a lot of work training other people for large endurance races, and trained me for his half Ironman. McDonald first got into endurance sports as a kid when he would play multiple team sports. As he grew older, he began practicing yoga and lost much of his running abilities. About three years later he started running again, and his friend asked him to run a marathon with him. After initially refusing, he changed his mind and started training for the marathon and realized it was very difficult. As he ran the race he got a feeling of euphoria, and decided he wanted to find ways to keep getting that feeling. He began running more challenging and longer races. McDonald says that while finishing the race is awesome, he loves the journey most. He loves being in nature and taking in the beauty while running.