Journal entry: I have been training for this race since December, after I finished the marathon at Singapore. It has been a war. Along with keeping my TSW at bay, I had to include swimming into my regimen, which was not ideal. But like all things, we persevere. I didn’t want to just “get through” TSW. …

We each picked up another rock and stood laughing by the edge of the maize fields. The kids threw first, one after the other. We watched as the rocks sailed into the sky before falling somewhere in the distance among the stalks. Then they looked up at me, waiting for me to throw. I gave …