He didn’t look like they just stopped Fixer Upper and who’s looking for his next adventure in life. And that’s what I just heard in that story about, you know, Gabe’s senior year as a Gopher is like, do you think that cancer diagnosis like helped her when you know get second and NCAA is like and kind of just tell us a little about like how did you see or make sense of that in her head? And just to be able to control that hurt and even like dive. It’s like sunny and there’s the biggest, brightest rainbow in the sky. Gabe Grunewald… And actually, other people who have lost loved ones. So what do you think is the biggest lesson you’ve learned from Gabe? Those were like 80 hour weeks at times hundred hour weeks where I’m just a zombie taking her for granted but that afforded us in the last few years to travel and see the world and do all these other things. Justin also shared a note he had written to his wife a couple of years ago. Justin: Yeah, so I think ultimately the years leading, I mean, not that, one of the million reasons I liked her was because I saw all this raw talent I saw this woman who had more speed than any woman, I’d ever seen. And then our kind of second mission is to keep people active spread hope. He was informed by alarmed nurses rushing them to the ICU that Gabe’s morning labs had come back with a lactate of 23 and pH was 6.9, values which are incompatible with life. Justin: Yeah, I mean, right now I have a couple different passions. And like, that’s how you really find a winner. In 2009, she was diagnosed with a rare salivary gland cancer called adenoid cystic carcinoma. Get Free Videos and E-Mail Updates from Cindra: Where would you like us to send your PDF download? And we thought, in June, people could use a reason to get outside and we thought maybe COVID would be dying down by September, but who knows aside from that, we have a lot of amazing people that just reach out and want to fundraise on their own, there’s a woman right now running the PCT across Oregon and she’s trying to set the fastest time ever, and she’s raised like $12,000 for the foundation. I think that’s a true like definition of the word selfless right? Justin: Yeah, I mean, honestly, I think one thing I learned from Gabriel and learned through our hardships in my hardships is no matter how bad or how hard a day is if you can kind of get out get active, get your blood flowing at the end of it, even if you have a terrible workout or if you have the best work of your life, you’re going to feel a little bit better. And that’s just how she approached life, if you got a bad day at the doctor’s office bad diagnosis about prognosis. I’m always open. So I grabbed Gabriel, we’re walking, she’s waiting for GPS watch to connect this guy yells again, he’s like, hey, it’s you. I need to train for two months but she’d go to the track. I did a six-mile loop. So it’s good to finally talk to you. It’s going to take the edge off. She was only 32 years old. Cindra: Where everyone, all the runners came around and supported her. He’s like, how long would it take a fat guy like me to run a marathon? Leah Scher is an ENFP finishing her degree at Brandeis University. So that’s kind of been my rescue after putting in long shifts in the hospital. Thursday, September 13, 7:40 p.m. TMZ reports that Justin and Hailey were spotted at a courthouse obtaining a marriage license on Thursday afternoon, … And that’s just really got better. Justin: Yeah, I do the Instagram thing it’s Justin Grunewald or Justin Grunewald1 or something and then I haven’t even know what my Twitter handle is. Justin: I mean yeah 100% but I think the craziest thing that is often overlooked because Instagrams and the Twitter’s done over the exist back then but her, what would have been her senior year of college she was a great runner for like the normal person, but she was not an All American she wasn’t competing really at national meets she was hoping to be towards the front of the conference meet, but then she got a cancer diagnosis had a radical neck dissection, it’s a pretty big surgery, had a summer of radiation and then basically took the summer off tried to like plan to go to radiation treatments 10 minutes or 10 minutes back. Her husband, Justin Grunewald, said in an Instagram post that “Gabriele heard your messages and was so deeply moved.” He added, “She wants you … Justin: Yeah, sign up for the virtual 5K as well. And so one thing that I saw like she that she just like live her life for other people towards the end like more. And actually, other people who have lost loved ones. And they’re like, I wrote your wife, two years ago, I had a plan to kill myself. Particularly at the end of her life. Yesterday I was on there and I was like, you guys got some work cool gear. Cindra: Yeah. They should head over to bravelikegabe.org they could get some of the gear or donate or maybe they have a race coming up that they want to raise. It’s different socializing with people even and we see a lot when we’re not seeing coronavirus patients, we’re seeing a lot of really sick patients and we’re avoiding the hospital and we’re seeing a lot of mental health, a lot of like alcohol abuse drug abuse that I think is all being manifested through the same vein of COVID in isolation and fear and worry and things like that. Throughout the process, she was relatively blissfully unaware. So I think just knowing that the pain and her training and running is going to be transient and when you finish it’s going to feel a lot better. Then we share it through like social media and on the website, but I think it’s cool to share people’s uplifting stories of how they persevered and found hope and kept going. I have so much fun with you and have learned more from having you as my best friend and wife than I learned in the rest of my life combined.”, A post shared by gabriele anderson grunewald (@gigrunewald) on Apr 10, 2019 at 3:15pm PDT, RELATED: Chase Him Down: 9 Reasons To Fall In Love With A Runner, Since her personal motto was to continue being brave, which for her meant not giving up on the things that make her feel alive, Gabe started a rare-cancer nonprofit called “Brave Like Gabe.". And so do you mean like the physical pain that we all experience when we’re running and really pushing ourselves like that helped her like embracing that pain is maybe a little bit different than the emotional pain of a cancer diagnosis? In the meantime, and came back to the same spot and share that big scar on her abdomen. In an Instagram post, he explained what happened when he received the news. They actually we have just moved before she went to the hospital. Cindra: How is your work changed given COVID? He’s like, How long? We weren’t really expecting to find that you know that it was like that was the thing that help them get there. I know people who are listening who maybe they are grieving right now, or they’re struggling in some way. Secret struggle. But for me, I see so many like happy images now, and that I just cry less because I have so many great memories and I’m like, wow, like that was the best life. But I was like, I gotta go buy some new cool things on there. And here’s some things I got from our conversation. Um, so people that have struggle in it will be expanded to basically anyone, but kind of shared it specific questions you can submit it on the website. But in your perspective, how is it a great way to live? Not everyone has access to this, but I like click onto the accounts email and see like these donations in honor of, in memory of, or even if it’s because I because I had a bad day and look to like Gabriel’s Instagram page. Then we share it through like social media and on the website, but I think it’s cool to share people’s uplifting stories of how they persevered and found hope and kept going. And I’m like, I have no idea. Justin: Totally, yeah. Justin: Yeah, it’s been a bit of a roller coaster I we’re going to happen, Northwestern hospital and higher ups have been great at getting us super prepared so it kind of all started, March, April, we were seeing chaos in New York. I’m glad that you were able to jump on finally. And so one thing that I saw like she that she just like live her life for other people towards the end like more. Cindra: Yeah, well, and one of the things that I just heard you say is that she would use these. He’s like “Oh my gosh, that’s like an amazing scar like I want to hear that story.” So she tagged him on Instagram and read all about her, reached out like a month later, and he’s like, you’re coaching me to run a marathon and I’m going to put on a marathon in Waco, Texas, and I want all the money we raised to go to whatever you want it to. Their marriage came under a … We experienced a lot of pain together. Last year, we did a study Justin where we interviewed elite athletes about how they develop their grit and all of them said that they had overcome significant adversity to get to where they are. Cindra: And I think that points to just like that she did something to serve other people you know that it wasn’t really about her running that race like the individual accolades, or the time that she’d run or the place right it was more about being the symbol of that you could still follow your dreams with this cancer diagnosis right? Like, why did I even work. 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