In January 2020, my story “Moving From Thin to Strong” ran in The Voice of Louisville. I described how “I wanted to expand my relationship with being active, including my understanding of my body and what it could achieve, beyond running and going to the gym.” Was that just a year ago? Feels like a decade.

In January 2021, I had a different story that appeared in the January issue, one that detailed getting married during a pandemic. As I consider both stories and their parallels, and all that has transpired over the past year, I think of the quote from diver William Trubridge that really resonates with me. “We have not found the human limits, we never will. It is just a matter of stretching out the grey area of possibility and finding an approximation… our job as athletes is to stretch into that zone and redefine human limits as much as we can.”