Life

I enjoy music (piano and bass),  trail running and the occasional marathon. I've completed the Pittsburgh, Boston, and New York City marathons, and these days, I love to run the local trails with friends and family.

I’m now playing bass with two rock bands, a mostly-80s cover band called The Garage Sale Band, who plays around the Lansing area (that’s me in the white shirt, looking at my frets). I also play bass for singer/song-writer Dr. Decade (also known as Brian Pentland, a fellow MSU professor in the MSU Business School). 

My favorite outdoor sports are trail running and orienteering. Orienteering is a sport where you race through the terrain, using a compass. For classic orienteering, you are given a map of topography (elevation information), vegetation, and trails (etc), with control locations, and the idea is to find each control location, in order, but taking any route you want, as fast as possible. It is a sport especially popular in Scandinavian countries. The fastest orienteers run an approximately 10 km course (measured point-to-point, not necessarily the optimal route). Southern Michigan has an active orienteering club (SMOC) with events scheduled in the spring and fall.

I have 3 amazing and wonderful children, Michaela, Sebastian, and Angela. I could go on about them, but I’d be abusing my parent privilege. However, I will advertise that Michaela Voit can be found performing as an actress and a musician in the Chicago theater scene! Her website is beautiful.

I am a two-time cancer survivor, of melanoma in 2013, cured by surgery on an early detection. I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2022. I had surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation and I am currently disease-free but taking daily oral medications. I am back to walking and running with the support of my family and friends, I've made it this far. The prognoses for these diseases has improved greatly since the time my own mother bravely faced her cancer journeys in the 1980-1990s. Regular doctor visits, mammograms, and tests are important for early detection. Life was very scary for us in 2022; a routine mammogram saved my life.