Christie Aschwanden is an award-winning science journalist and author. She is the lead science writer for FiveThirtyEight and a contributing writer for The New York Times. She has written for numerous publications, including The Washington Post, Wired, and Outside Magazine. Her work has been recognized with numerous awards, including the National Association of Science Writers’ Science in Society Award and the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Science Journalism Award. She is the author of the books Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery and The Science of Running: How to Find Your Limit and Train to Maximize Your Performance.