What West Point Taught Me About Running, What Running Taught Me About Life

One of the biggest reasons I struggled at West Point was my ability to run.  It didn’t matter if it was running sprints at football practice or distance running for routine morning physical fitness training. When the going got tough I broke. I’m ashamed to admit this, as this is something I’ve mostly kept to […]

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Read This When You Feel You’re Not Living Up to Your Potential

The haunting feeling I have every so often is that I’m not living up to my potential.  This year alone I had a classmate from West Point run for Governor of Georgia, and a classmate from FAMU run for Governor of Florida. It’s not that I aspire for political office. However, I do aspire to […]

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How Elite Athletes Become Elite – Learning to Endure Pain

If you want to know how elite athletes become elite, you must first understand how elite athletes learn to endure pain. This is according to author Malcolm Gladwell and elite runner Alex Hutchinson.  These two recently discussed this when talking to each other about what separates top athletes from the rest. Alex Hutchinson states: You […]

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