Determination at It's Best

Sergeant Noah Galloway, U.S. Army (retired), trains like a machine. Despite losing his left arm and left leg to an IED in Iraq, he's one of the gutsiest endurance athletes you'd be privileged to meet.

Last weekend, he was ready to compete in the Tough Mudder; a hardcore 12 miler stacked with 20 military type obstacles. And he wasn't planning to run alone. Noah and his sponsors had arranged for his friend Ilene to compete as well.

Ilene has brittle bone disease.

Read that last sentence again: A woman whose bones fracture under pressure and a soldier with only half his limbs intact trained to conquer the Tough Mudder. Unfortunately, the event was cancelled. But I'll say this; the fact that they even dared to prepare shows more grit than most folks ever muster.

Last week, Noah wrote:

Every single one of us has challenges in life. We all have excuses why we CAN’T do something. Knowing a one-armed, one-legged man and a woman with brittle bone disease are going to take on a 12 mile obstacle course this Sunday, will those excuses be relevant? Get out and do something.

That's what I mean when I say, Don't Slow Down.