Ben,

Great writing and thanks for sharing! Running has been my escape since childhood and now is combined with my professional and personal calling of catalyzing mental & physical resiliency in everyone… Kudos to you on your past, present AND future. The latter, I’m sure, will be bright with such a great attitude about life.

Don’t know if you’ve seen our group — Runner’s Life — at https://medium.com/runners-life but you might give it a look. Jeff Barton has written beautifully about how running has saved him from alcoholism (https://medium.com/runners-life/how-running-saved-me-from-being-an-alcoholic-31966c455eca) and others like me have shared a few stories.

We all grow best when we grow together. Keep up the writing and running. Hope our paths cross at some point in the future.

Gary