 I dreaded the PRT every year, but I had a good friend of mine who was a pretty big guy. He was doing some pretty quick times, and I wasn't so good at my times, and he pretty much inspired me to get into running and improve my PRT tower. In September of 2006, I started it my first 5K. It was a 911 Tribute 5K. I was having some lower back pain. I thought it was just working out that I was big into the gym and stuff like that. Then I started having some high troubles. So I went into medical after a series of tests, and I came to find out I was diagnosed with an ankylosing spinalitis. Basically, it's an arthritis that affects the spine, hips, sacroiliac joints, the feet, and the ankles. I'm a very fortunate, I'm a functional AS patient. So I do take medications to control it. I do have a lot of aches and pains due to the arthritis. Running actually helps, believe it or not. That's one of the reasons why I started running more and more and more, because it seemed like I felt better. But there is a pretty good possibility later on in life that I could be, you know, it could get worse, wheelchair-bound, things like that. There are AS patients, pain patients with arthritis, juvenile arthritis, or some people who are artery wheelchairs are half my age. We have juvenile arthritis, these kids are wheelchairs. So again, I know there's going to come a time when I'm not going to be able to do what I do. But I also do it for those folks individually, I do it for those folks as well. This is my second year doing an honor and remember, run for the following. The A Run for the Fall starts at Fort Story in Virginia Beach, Virginia. It's a four-day process, 245 miles. We're honoring over 340 men and women who have paid the ultimate sacrifice. Our men and women that died on the battlefield, they're not here and they can't do this. So it's just my way of giving back God to give me the ability to be able to run and share that experience. And you see the grieving of the family members, whether it's mom, dad, sister, brother, uncle, it doesn't matter. You can see how grateful they are that we can run for their fallen hero. It's a very emotional time. You know you're running for that soldier or the harem and you just, you know you've got to go that last mile, that last couple steps. It's not an individual event, you know, all these guys, men and women come out here, all the service members, retirees, when they come out here for, you know, everybody has their own reasons to go there, just to bathe and to see the camaraderie. You know, we all come from different branches, all different walks of life, but we all come out here for the same goal, same purpose. And that's to honor these men and women that have died and paid the ultimate price. It's just, it's very special, very special event, very special.