Dave Mackey Interview – One Step at a Time

Dave Mackey Interview When we last spoke with Dave Mackey in 2015, his prognosis was still undetermined.  One month after falling down a cliff on a training run, he was recovering from the trauma and had undergone a few surgeries. Little did he know what the next 18 months would look like. After more than a dozen surgeries and little progress, Dave made the “non-reversible” decision to amputate…

Dave Mackey has won big races and earned the respect of other runners for well over a decade.  Even at 45 years old, he’s widely considered one of the toughest runners on the trails, able to endure pain and push his body to it’s limit in pursuit of a goal. Then on May 23 of this year, exactly one month ago today, Dave stepped on a loose rock while on a trail run outside Boulder.  Since that…