Running for My Life

I laced up my running shoes, stretched my legs, arms, calves, neck, and my back while Dierks Bentley’s “Gold” played loudly in my Apple AirPods Pro. I opened the door to the yellow, 2-story house where the smell of the ocean a block away touched my nose and the 81-degree humid heat sank into my […]

The Race of a Lifetime

I ran my ass off that day. It was in the fall of 1982 when I was a scrawny, 94-pound freshman at Farmington Harrison High School in Farmington Hills, MI. I was 5’6” tall and I was really scrawny, but probably because I was on the Boy’s Cross Country team running 10 miles per day […]