EMerce*d in Learning

Time-Out Tuesdays Each Tuesday we will take time out of the classroom to learn about each other. I wasn’t always a runner.   I wanted to be a runner in high school, but I spent so much time with NJROTC that I didn’t have the time to join the track team (not that I would have made it!).   I always felt a strange desire to run despite my life-long inability to even make the mile run in school without stopping.   Flash forward to the fall of 2009.   I had recently lost 80 pounds and decided I wanted to try something new.   Then in my mail I received a letter about a charitable organization, Team in Training.   As a participant you raise money for the Lymphoma and Leukemia Society and they provide you with a running coach and support while you train for an event.   They will coordinate and pay your way to the event as well.   When I signed up for TNT I couldn’t make it half a mile without stopping.   I would be completely winded and...