Last spring, Dan Michalski, a 29-year-old airplane mechanic and professional runner whose running career had plateaued, loaded up a U-Haul and moved his wife and three children, his dog, and 15 chickens from Colorado to Utah to train with coach Ed Eyestone’s pro team at BYU .

After years of moving from town to town and job to job and coach to coach to succeed as a professional runner, he would try once more.

The results have been spectacular; Michalski has been a runner reborn. He has cut his personal record time in the steeplechase by a whopping seven seconds, placed a close second in the U.S. championships — just .19 seconds behind training partner/Olympic silver medalist Kenneth Rooks — and qualified to represent the U.S. team in the world track and field championships, set for To

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