Blistering heat. Sun beating down on your head as you struggle to keep your pace. Cracks and rocks in the road causing you to stumble. Run, keep running. You are only 63 miles into your 100 mile race....

Within an hour of my first day of public school, I wanted to leave. I knew no one, I felt like I didn’t belong, I sat at a lunch table by myself for the first week, and to top off the whole thing there...