Right now, we are in the trust phase of Derek’s racing career and for Fastlife, too. Our lives is still fast without the racing, but not as much fun and thus not really the “Fastlife.” We are working diligently to earn the privilege of representing a brand or brands in the 2017 racing season. We’ve committed to paying debt and not infusing personal money or creating more debt to race. Racing is one expensive sport! Next week, we will touch on that in our “The Business of Racing” episode, so stay tuned! This is about discipline and trust and believing that if Derek is supposed to be racing, the right deals will come together. This kind of surrender is not easy, but we are pairing it with doi

Derek and I have been doing Crossfit for almost five years now. I started when my friend invited me to the gym. I’m not sure what Derek thought, but I am sure he wondered what else I had gotten into! Right from the start, I watched people’s lives transform in that gym, including mine. I learned that I had an inner strength I didn’t even realize was there. My friendships shifted, I became stronger mentally and physically and realized I that I could stop apologizing for who I am. I also deepened my faith while going there and found out later that Lu Crenshaw, the gym owner and my great friend, had written scripture under the mats in the gym. Derek joined later (I think he picked up on my tr