Ken
Rideout
- The fastest marathoner in the world over fifty
- Former prison guard and Wall Street trader
- Author of a national bestseller
- Host of RIDEOUT: The Other Side of Hard
But what's behind the curtain?
Behind the curtain
What people saw. What they didn't.
Drag through Ken's life or tap an age. Each black bar clears after a second.
1997 · Ken at 25
Wall Street · from age 25
Lands on a Wall Street trading desk.
Most of it happened after forty
Ken got sober at 39. At 48 he ran his first marathon under two and a half hours. At 52 he won the Gobi March and became the M50-54 marathon world champion.
Before that came a prison job at eighteen, a career on Wall Street and more than a decade of hiding an opioid addiction from almost everyone. His story page tells it era by era, in his own words.
Read Ken's storyNowhere to Hide
A weekly letter from Ken Rideout about doing the uncomfortable part, and the reasons we use to avoid it.
It starts with 3 Days, 3 Hard Things: one short story from Ken and one hard thing to do, every day for three days. Then one letter a week.
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The memoir · Scribner · National bestseller
Everything you want is on the other side of hard
New conversations every week
Ken sits down with athletes, musicians and business leaders who went through something hard, and gets the whole story: what it cost, and what came after.
Alabama National Champ. LabCorp Janitor. UFC Fighter at 30.
For rooms full of people who look fine
Talks on pressure, quitting and starting again, from the trading floor to the start line. Recently: the Boston Bruins Player Development Camp.
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