corinawantstoconfide asked: that tattoo we can see in your last pic - what does it say?

“That which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves”

I was reading the book ‘The art of racing in the rain’ by Garth Stein around about the time I started my blog and this paragraph stood out. I also read the book again the night before my first marathon and made the decision to get it tattooed once I had completed the run. It took 6 months to decide on the font (I wanted it to look like it was printed on my skin in the same font as the book.)