My craft was running, and as I climbed those northwest mountains, I tried to do so with extreme focus. It’s easy to shut your brain off when you’re running long distances, and sometimes it’s necessary, but I stayed plugged in. I concentrated on running a particular section harder, on picking up speed downhill while I rested my heart and lungs.
People use drugs and technology to turn their minds off but I’m nothing like that. I drank when I was a teenager but I started working on getting sober when I was fifteen in 1995 before I turned sixteen. I learned how to love life without having to turn my mind off or dull it.
