Running Mount Rainier: An Ordinary Runner's Journey from Crippling Injury to Ultra Marathon Finish Line

The capacity for everyday heroics is in each of us. Sometimes the most ordinary accomplishment can be the height of inspiration, if only we knew the journey that person traveled to reach that accomplishment. These stories are all around us, if only we stop, look, and listen.

This is one story.

Perhaps it starts lying in the back of an ambulance, wondering if I would walk again, and thinking, with a strange sense of relief, "This is the bottom. It can only get better from here."

Perhaps it star...