ElmoFromOK not a muppet

Running has never been my friend. I have loathed the idea of laps and cannot stand conditioning. I spent the majority of my youth running around and around soccer fields and high schools in order the be in shape for soccer, the game i loved. I put up with it for soccer, but only barely. It was the price I was forced to pay in order to play.

I would grudgingly admit that the more I ran and the better my conditioning, the better I played and the more fun the games were for me. Yet still I avoided it as much as I possibly could.

I find the act of running to be incredibly tedious and boring. LIke being trapped in a room with nothing to do but think and not act. I feel like there are things I need to be doing, right this second, when I run.

Growing up with asthma did nothing to help the situation for me. I always extra ground to go to overcome my lungs before I could start the real conditioning. Ironically, the running made my asthma almost a non-issue most of the time. I was able to handle much more stress due to having already trained my lungs to deal with it.

But as you can imagine, these days running is nothing but long boring, ineffective, gasping, burning tedium. Not the sort of thing I seek out for fun.

So it fills me with a perverse amount of joy to announce that I will be running my first 5k BY CHOICE on Oct 10th to help raise money for breast cancer research during the Race for the Cure event in downtown OKC.

I have been running with the Couch to 5k program on my iphone and making progress, and I am playing soccer again (YAY) as well. I have a goal to be in better shape than when I played soccer as a teen. I believe I can do it.

I ask you to PLEASE consider donating to the cause to both encourage me to run farther and to help support a really good charity.

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