How We Met

 In Oct of 2010, Ed moved to San Francisco for a job after grad school. He quickly realized that while he had a few friends in the bay area but realized it wasn’t the easiest city to meet new people in. He is an avid cyclist, and specifically wanted someone to go on bike rides with. Unbeknownst to him, on the other side of town, Katie had just signed up for her first triathlon. Being the digitally-savy Gen Xer that he is, he decided to search Match.com for people with “triathlon” in their profile and he came across Katie’s profile thinking she actually had a bike (which she didn’t).  They connected and had their first date at a little wine bar called Hotel Biron. They hit it off and had their second date the next night and many more bottles of wine after that. Ed kept telling Katie repeatedly how he did not want to be in a relationship because he just moved to SF. She kept saying that was fine, and to be fair, he said as much in his profile. But she started to realize that almost every day around 5:00 he would ask what she was doing that night and they would usually go do a work out or go out to dinner, or both. After it happened 7 days in a row, she decided she wasn’t really worried about him seeing other people.

A few months after they met, Katie woke up to an email from Ed with a receipt for a plane ticket to Hawaii, where she was doing her first triathlon. He had bought a ticket to go with her (which was good because she had no idea what she was doing). This was his way of saying he wasn’t going to see anyone else. That ended up being the first of many trips they would take together!