After having a few brews with my cousin last night at a local establishment I came home and noticed a post on Facebook that hit me pretty hard. It read, "You haven't lived until you've been told that "if you're to get cancer, this is the one to get." Going on round 4 of Hodgkin Lymphoma. Yep - the SOB is back with a vengeful bite. Damn you cancer". This came from a beautiful young woman who I've yet had the chance to meet but has impacted my life tremendously, and is in fact not only why I rolled my ass out of bed to run on a muggy Friday morning but the reason that keeps me running. Simply put, cancer sucks.
So as I stand high on my soapbox this morning I could state the obvious...what I will endure over the next year in training and races will be no match for what a cancer patient has to push through. In that I will find strength to keep running but most importantly to raise awareness.
Our lives are too often full of quantity over quality. Our lives are too often ran at a speed that we miss what is right in front of our eyes. And in all this we too often settle for less. I've found that running for charity and being exposed to those effected has helped me to embrace opportunities and to know that I won't live life with an orthotic. What I mean by this is that life should be a normal fit, it should be natural, it shouldn't need an "orthotic" to make things right.
Tomorrow morning I will be back out on the B&A Trail running with Team in Training, it's been way too long.
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