Our Collective Stories

For most of her life, Conoshia Odum never thought of herself as a runner. Running wasn’t something she grew up doing. It wasn’t a sport she had always loved or a goal she had been working toward. In fact, when running first entered her life in a meaningful way, she wasn’t looking for it at all. She was simply trying to feel like herself again.

Lain didn't become a runner overnight. He started by walking up and down his street for about an hour each day. Eventually, those walks turned into slow jogs. Then came the occasional mile on the treadmill. Before long, he found himself running outside.

When Gigi Lannon first started thinking about studying abroad, she already had one goal in mind. She wanted to run a marathon. Not just any marathon, either. She wanted to spend a semester somewhere unforgettable and experience the city in the most meaningful way she could: by training for and running a marathon there. For Gigi, that destination became Sydney, Australia.