Running

Fact: You can tell how dedicated I am to something by how early I'll wake up for it. My really cool office-mate, Karen, is a runner. Her husband coaches cross-country, her daughter runs for Winthrop, and Karen runs every day. Karen is probably the happiest person I know. I don't know if this is a direct result of her running, since excercise produces endorphins, making you generally happier about life. But I do know that when I ran cross-country in high school, I took great pride in running 5-6 miles after school and then coming home to down an entire little ceasers pizza by myself with no shame. As of today, I have registered for the Rock Hill Great Pumpkin 5K road race. Sounds cool right? I've also talked my two Burns pals into running with me and I have to think we're all really excited. Laura and I have both been trying to run every day. Some days were more successful than others. For some reason running/biking/triathlon events are really in right now. Lots of my friends, after graduating college, decided that being addicted to healthy food and/or running was going to be their "thing" of choice, which is cool. I support health and the running culture is a great way to stay in shape, meet new people, and spend your adult money on new shoes. I'm doing it, I guess for all of those reasons and because I miss it. And because it's a cheap sport (and we all know how I feel about participating in sports/competition). I'm also scheduled to run in the Reindeer Romp 5K in Decemeber and obviously the Come-See-Me race in April. If one day you wake up and decide to take on this sport (just like I did) then let's get up. It means some early mornings and a lot of soreness in the first training days, but it's all worth it I think. Come on folks, let's beat the US obesity rate, one cool race t-shirt at a time!

"There are three things I've learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin." --Linus