The past few weeks I've been training for my next race. And far different from my usual road half-marathons, this race requires me to step outside of my normal treadmill training comfort zone and onto the trails. For the Ragnar Relay, I'll be running three times on three different trails in Atlanta over the course of about 24 hours. To say that I was ignorant to what this would require of me is an understatement.
Read MoreFor the past month, I've been sharing updates on my half-marathon training for the Gasparilla race I'm running this coming February (you can catch up on week 3 and week 4).
Read MoreOne of the first bible verses that ever stuck with me was Philipians 4:13. I think it was somewhere in the middle of a steep hike up a mountainside in Haiti that I grasped onto the words and started using them as my internal anthem across all situations.
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