My favorite image from the trip is not the backflip or shark, it's of 17 year old weightlifting phenom, CJ Cummings. When he got back in the boat after his first snorkel above a coral reef we asked him how it went and his response blew us away..."Pretty cool, that was my first time in the ocean."

Adventure writer Todd Balf shot for Runner's World Magazine and his essay about running the Wings for Life Run that supports research studies about spinal cord injuries. Published in the December 2017 edition of Runner's World.