With fire in their hearts to provide college runners the opportunity to train competitively while also investing in their spiritual development, Avery Blackwell and Greg Jimmerson co-founded the Altitude Project in 2004. Both were successful college runners - Avery 8-time All-Conference and an NCAA XC qualifier at Cal Poly in 2000 and Greg an All-American with a 4th place finish at the NCAA XC Championships at Stanford, leading his team to the title in 1996 - training post-collegiately at the Nike Farm Team, an elite/Olympic development training group.

In this conversation, they recount the story of envisioning and realizing the vision for The Altitude Project, from their high school/college running experience through their time as camp directors. While this is the Altitude Project story, it is more so a story about being commissioned. Listen to how Avery and Greg were commissioned and obedient in answering their call to those around them and later to college runners across the nation - a beautiful example of commissioned followers of Christ and how all of us are called to God and to others.

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