“What do you want to do for your birthday?” DP asks me in January. “A race…duh.” I say, smiling. So 2:30am last Saturday, the alarm goes off for our 46.5-hour…
I can now definitively tell you that it is possible to collect some of your happiest and saddest memories on the same day. A week ago Sunday, I completed the…
Driving home on Sunday after the Rex Wellness Sprint Tri in Garner, I found myself locked in a bizarre sort of mental argument: “Should I just give up on doing…
Jen is a Team Drea member who has taken our challenge to “Go on, be brave” to heart. I know you will enjoy reading about her amazing experience! The Island…
In the spirit of being brave, I thought I would kick off Team Drea 2018 with an excerpt from my forthcoming* memoir about how the Team Drea Challenge came about…
This race is #8 of my 12 planned races for 2017 and my resurrected project to dedicate each one to someone living with ALS who has inspired me. Before I…
Thus far, I’ve taken 2017 off from dedicating races to people with ALS and writing race reports. It just became too much with all the other writing and non-writing projects…
People always ask, “when’s your next race?” and right now, I gleefully tell them that it’s not til mid-September. But it’s not quiet at Team Drea HQ – not by…