The last time we heard from Jared Ward, he was delivering one of the surprising performances of the Rio Olympic Games. Since then, as marathoners are wont to do, he dropped out of sight to rest, heal and prepare for his next outing.
He resurfaced last month in the New York Half-Marathon, which was meant to be a warmup for what’s next: On Monday, Ward, an adjunct professor of statistics at BYU, will enter the most famed and storied race of them all, the Boston Marathon.
“It’s one I’ve looked forward to for a while,” he says.