And so what were the questions that kept pulling at you to learn more or to do more in this field?

That initial question that brought me into sport was, do I have to compete to really participate in many of the extracurricular activities that were available to me that did Irish step dancing? And once I reached a certain level, my teacher said, okay, now it's time to compete.

And then I quit.

And I was just looking for something that I could enjoy and that I didn't have to again, compete to be a part of.

Running then became appealing because there was competition involved, but ultimately I didn't really care what place I was in at the end of the race.

I cared about seeing my own progress.

And that's really the form of competition that I became comfortable with and was excited by was that I could see when I put work in that I was making progress and it really didn't matter what other people thought of that.

team.