MudRunFun Magazine Sept. 2013 | Page 15

most comfortable slippers I have ever worn and a giving up or whenever I just wasn’t feeling well at picture we took together after the Tough Mudder all, I had the love and the support of the whole team event was over. That picture is still hung up in my pushing me to keep me going, to keep striving and room today. I mean, these people that I barely knew, to keep pushing towards my goals. actually went out of their way to just pick out an assortment of things to take with me while I was secluded away from the world for a week. That truly touched the bottom of my heart and I knew that this wasn’t just an OCR team I had joined to be a part of a group at different events, it was a family. And it wasn’t just any family, it was my family. And they didn’t just stop there, oh no, Linda actually went ahead and made F*ck Cancer bracelets to distribute throughout the group, so we can all wear and show support. And again, I still have a bracelet on my wrist to this day. Again, these were people that were strangers to me just a couple weeks earlier and they were going out of their way to make me feel better, to make me feel at hom e and just make me feel happy. I don’t think it was coincidence that I met this amazing group during the journey of my recuperation, I’m just extremely blessed that I did. Throughout this whole process, whenever I felt like It didn’t stop there though, through MudRunFun, I’ve met many more groups of people that I would have otherwise never met, if I didn’t become a part of this family. I’ve met The Karma Athletes, The Regiment Runners, The Corn Fed Spartans, EATA Nation, The Rum Runners, The Diablos Run Club, my friends over at Fit Map, Sole Runners and Funnings creator himself, Rodrigo Ortiz. All groups filled with the same amazing types of people that I have come to know and love within MudRunFun. Of all those people, there is one person I have met through these groups that I truly admire. That man is Thomas “Superhero” Mills of the Superman Walks Project. This is a man that goes and tackles most, if not all OCRs and is also an amputee. He has the courage and determination, to get out there and kick those obstacle course races ass and he shows people that you have no 12