I was sick with flu the entire October. I guess it's a post-flu after pneumonia. I've just let the waves of the world carry me. I know fighting against it now makes things worse. I'm just trying to tell myself I'm enough, and growth isn't linear....

September was supposed to be a trial of testing my physical limits, and it indeed did. I got plantar fasciitis and, after that, pneumonia with nausea so bad I had to get a nurse to come and take care of me at home. I had been training for six months for running...