When Taylor flew through the door today her eyes and face red, tears lining her face, I knew something horrible had happened.  I was on the phone for a work call and immediately said, “I need to call you back” and without waiting for a response, I hung up and rose to my feet.  She…

“It’s simple…If you don’t think you were born to run, you’re not only denying history.  You’re denying who you are.” – Dr. Bramble Going to Malibu was transformational for me as a runner.  Not in the sense that I walked away with a new vantage point on running it was more that I was reminded…

“We can only appreciate the miracle of a sunrise if we have waited in the darkness” –Unknown As I exited the hotel lobby at 4:30AM in the dark Southern California morning, I shuddered against the cold and watched my breath escape harshly into the air.  “So much for Malibu sunshine,” I remember thinking.  Hopping in…

When I sat down in my seat on the plane in Dallas headed for home, I was suddenly overwhelmed with being physically tired.  Despite the fatigue, the weekend was one of my favorite since starting with Spartan Race and for a multitude of reasons, most of them physical.  As I write the words just tumble…

“Of all the people you have you are the one person you can depend on. As ineffable as it may seem you won’t let you down and at the end of the day you have chosen your life for a reason. Regardless of whether or not you know WHY. You did.” – Katy McCabe My…

This is what happens when I let my four-year-old use my phone.  I couldn’t possibly delete it.  It’s just too precious.  

I don’t worry about the bruises, the cuts, the scrapes, the callouses, and the scars that are easy to see… for me, it’s the things I can’t see… the vulnerabilities that threaten from the inside out that are the most dangerous and the most telling.  It’s the thoughts that creep in with doubt when I…

“If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you”― Henry Rollins My running and training lately has…

At Thermopylae on the final morning, when the last surviving Spartans knew they were all going to die, they turned to the warrior Dienekes and asked what they should hold in their minds to keep their courage strong. He instructed his comrades: “Fight for this alone: the man who stands at your shoulder. He is…