17 days from today.

The 'Race to Stop the Silence and End Child Sexual Abuse' is in seventeen days.  I've been biking a lot but not running at all.  It's a five mile race but I've been starting to worry about it.  I keep trying to tell myself it's not at all about the running part of it but about the meaning of being in the race.  Today after a wonderfully motivating ten second pep talk from Jessieh- in which she mentioned other children who are still presently being abused- I was motivated to go out and do a run.  I want to do a few before the race so I am not using that as something to worry about before it.  I ran for six miles just to prove to myself I could do and I just stopped once to help a guy push his car out of the road.  So 17 days until the race.  And then the next week there are the final semester critiques at school and then I'll be finished with my first year of graduate school.

The whole time I was running today I was listening to this on repeat.  :-)