Running has amazing powers that are impossible for a non-runner to understand. Before I started running, I would have never dreamed that I could have run 13.1 miles. Even while I was training for my first half marathon, the thought of running 26.2 miles seemed impossible. But that first marathon finish changed something. It changed that way that I view impossible situations, the way that I view running, and the way that I view life.

Another big change happened on December 17, 2012. After running 26.2 miles in the cold, the rain, and the wind, I became something different, yet again. I became a Marathon Maniac!