Miles After Midnight

Taylor Spike doesn’t run for the podium. He runs because it rewired his life. After years of hard turns and quiet rebuilds, he’s still out there—grinding through 200s, toeing the line at 300, waking up before the sun to chase something harder than a finish time: clarity.

In this interview with Borderlands, Taylor opens up about addiction, recovery, what it means to suffer well, and why pain—real pain—can become the most honest form of progress. There’s no performance persona here. Just a working man with a heavy pack, a hard-earned rhythm, and a story that reminds us this sport is more than sport.

It’s a second chance.