most comfortable slippers I have ever worn and a
giving up or whenever I just wasn’t feeling well at
picture we took together after the Tough Mudder
all, I had the love and the support of the whole team
event was over. That picture is still hung up in my
pushing me to keep me going, to keep striving and
room today. I mean, these people that I barely knew,
to keep pushing towards my goals.
actually went out of their way to just pick out an
assortment of things to take with me while I was
secluded away from the world for a week. That truly
touched the bottom of my heart and I knew that
this wasn’t just an OCR team I had joined to be a
part of a group at different events, it was a family.
And it wasn’t just any family, it was my family. And
they didn’t just stop there, oh no, Linda actually
went ahead and made F*ck Cancer bracelets to
distribute throughout the group, so we can all wear
and show support. And again, I still have a bracelet
on my wrist to this day. Again, these were people
that were strangers to me just a couple weeks earlier
and they were going out of their way to make me
feel better, to make me feel at hom e and just make
me feel happy. I don’t think it was coincidence that
I met this amazing group during the journey of my
recuperation, I’m just extremely blessed that I did.
Throughout this whole process, whenever I felt like
It didn’t stop there though, through MudRunFun,
I’ve met many more groups of people that I would
have otherwise never met, if I didn’t become a
part of this family. I’ve met The Karma Athletes,
The Regiment Runners, The Corn Fed Spartans,
EATA Nation, The Rum Runners, The Diablos Run
Club, my friends over at Fit Map, Sole Runners and
Funnings creator himself, Rodrigo Ortiz. All groups
filled with the same amazing types of people that I
have come to know and love within MudRunFun.
Of all those people, there is one person I have met
through these groups that I truly admire. That man
is Thomas “Superhero” Mills of the Superman Walks
Project. This is a man that goes and tackles most, if
not all OCRs and is also an amputee. He
has the courage and determination,
to get out there and kick those
obstacle course races ass and he
shows people that you have no
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