Running in a “Garden of Compassion”

Running in a “Garden of Compassion”

(First published in the Birmingham Track Club Newsletter, May 2013) Twenty hours of driving over rough, mostly mountain, roads delivered me to Jhamtse Gatsal. I was disheveled, a bit disoriented (altitude combined with weariness), and nearly desperate to escape the...
Running Past Phoenix

Running Past Phoenix

The pain of training is nothing compared to the pain of not reaching your potential. —Josh Cox “When did you run the marathon in Phoenix?” “January.” “Wow, look what you’ve accomplished in a year!” “Pfft.”...