Running/Cancer Karma

On the heels of yesterday's news comes some running/cancer karma of the good kind. As you may know, I'm a member of Team Phidippides, a socially competitive running team sponsored by my favorite running store here in Atlanta. I'd volunteered along with a few of my teammates to help lead a training group for the upcoming Georgia Marathon and Half Marathon in March. Today was our first official training run and I did 6 miles at a very decent pace.

After the run, people were hanging around enjoying breakfast and a seminar about Dead Butts. I've seen some really sick assholes in my day, but never a Dead Butt. I decided to grab one of my books from the car to give to Phidippides head honcho Susan. She was happy to have one and asked if I had a second one she could include in the raffle they were about to have for all the training run attendees. I did, so I handed it over, and began to wonder, who, besides me, is out here in 25 degree weather to do a run and wants to read my silly cancer book. 

Well, wouldn't you know, the raffle winner, Linda, had been treated for breast cancer last summer, and was actually hoping to win the book. We chatted for a while, and it felt really good to know that even as a new chapter in my journey begins, the chapters I wrote around the time Linda was beginning hers may now help her get through it all with an extra smile or two. 

Keep on running, Linda!