I love hoola-hooping :) So...who DO you run for? I have always been a walker and have done it for me/for exercise. But after Liz got sick, I signed up to do my first marathon with Team in Training and have done it for both of us since. It made me feel like I was doing something (raising money to find a cure) and pushing myself because if she could endure the bone marrow biopsies and chemo, I could surely walk 26.2 miles. I walked for her because she couldn't. Still today, that's my motivation. Maybe even more so because, well, because I can. I am blessed to be healthy and able to walk. Period. So I walk. She wanted to walk with me one day, even if just to complete a 5K together. We didn't get to do that. When I went through breast cancer and did the 2-day walk for that a year later, she was really sick (it was just a month before she took her angel wings), but she said when she was better, she was going to do one for me as I had always done for her. She always thought she'd get better. So, though it isn't what we had in mind when we talked of doing one together, I know she's with me...always.
Today I also walked for a little boy named Logan. I was connected with him through a Facebook group called I Run 4. Logan is 3 1/2 and was struck with Transverse Myelitis at the age of 5 months. He now lives with the residuals (in a walker) but getting stronger. He has such a happy disposition! He has a brother who is exactly one year older, born on the same day and both boys were adopted by a wonderful couple in Northern California. Yesterday, his mom posted a video for me of Logan in his walker, walking from driveway to driveway with his older brother "guiding him" :) She said it took about an hour and a half to make the round trip (they live a little out it looks like so the distance was more than your typical cookie cutter neighborhood driveway to driveway). He was so delighted to be out walking! It made me smile.
So...today, he was my inspiration. I walked for Logan.
