I survived poor-prognosis acute myeloid leukemia, the typical multiple rounds of chemotherapy, a bone marrow transplant, and open heart surgery, all for a small chance of survival. I am NOT a trained and experienced athlete. But I try to live outside the predictions, running high and remote trails - up to marathon distance - across wild landscapes, living, teaching and spreading the word from my solar-powered 1952 Airstream. In other words, the stuff I always dreamed of when I was young and naive. Although modern medicine kept me from being dead, I realized that saving my life was entirely up to me, whether it was a life of one day or a decade. My goal is to live an extraordinary story, the kind we patients needed to hear while confined for months in our hospital rooms, all the while emotionally tortured by our prospects. As long as I am here, I hope to inspire a social movement of people living their own authentic epic stories, proving that we need not be defined by a set of daunting circumstances. Today I am a speaker, writer, college lecturer, trail runner and microadventurer. And maybe I can make the world more civil and beautiful along the way. www.shaunwillson.com