In the Spring of 2015, Teresa was not doing well. “I was going through a difficult, painful, heartbreaking divorce,” she says, “and I was wallowing in self-pity and self-doubt.”

Teresa’s brother, Adam, thought what Teresa needed was to challenge herself. According to Teresa, Adam said, “You need to figure out who you are. You need a challenge; you need something that's going to push you to your limits and really help you find that inner strength again.”

“There's nothing else that will help you do that,” said Adam, “except for running.”

“I just laughed in his face,” says Teresa. “I hadn’t run since junior high PE class.”

Now — years later and having run multiplehalf marathons, Teresa thinks that Adam was right. And she’s paying that important insight forward in a big way.