I am an average runner. I run approximately 25 miles per week and I finish my races at a respectable time. I never win – and I only get an age group award in the smaller races. However, like most runners, I still don’t like being passed during a race. I know it will happen – it does in every race. But it doesn’t mean I have to like it.
There is one exception, however, and that is when I participate in one of the Run For The Warriors® races throughout the country. I have run this race in North Carolina and New York, and countless stories and photos of these races across the country have been shared with me. The experience is always the same – honor, courage, gratitude and more.
The race always begins with a ceremony honoring service members, veterans, military families and the fallen. No...
