One of my goals that I set at the start of the new year was to run a 5K. In late January, I registered for my first 5K and have been training ever since.
The 5K is this Saturday! My goal to run the entire thing without slowing will (hopefully) come to fruition! Hooray!
What I think I like best about this whole 5K/Mini Marathon (oh yes, someday I will get to 13 miles) is that not only is it good for me, but the registration money is going for a good cause. The IU Mini-Marathon/5K is the Circle of Life IU Mini. The money goes towards a scholarship fund for students who are cancer survivors.
Whenever it has seemed impossible to run that far without dying... (I have never, after all, been a runner... I actually despise it and stayed away from most physical activity until grad school...) I just think about the students who are pushing through school despite having cancer. That is more than I think I could handle.
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