We are still excited about jogging in the UNC Kidney Kare 5K on March 20!
I love this graphic! But sadly, Rob and I will be nowhere near that anthropomorphic Carolina blue 5K kidney champion who is breaking the tape in 1st place! And I don't think we'll look anything like the 3 other anthropomorphized kidneys chasing after him. Well, maybe the sweaty part. But definitely not in the stride category. Those kidneys' stride looks to be akin to everyone in the men's 200m race in Beijing.
Um yeah, that's not our kind of stride!
We will, however, be yelling the same thing when we do finish - "Wooo Hoooooo!"
I'm not sure if we totally recruited our dialysis friend to jog it along with us. He thinks that he'll slow us down, even though we've told him that our finish time doesn't matter. I want us to finish together, which means we'll jog when we all can, and we'll all stop to walk when 1 of us can't continue jogging anymore.
We did go for a walk with our dogs about a week ago. We had the intention of jogging and walking when necessary, but because we were sore and tired from our run the day before, we decided just an easy stroll with the dogs sounded better.
So while we aren't "training" for this 5K event, I am still excited to participate in it! Rob and I should be going for a little pseudo-training jog on Thursday evening. We just received our new running shoes in the mail today, so I'll be wearing them around the house and everywhere I go for the next day or 2, to break them in.
Well that's all for now. 18 days until the UNC Kidney Kare 5K run!
Rob,
ReplyDeleteI wish you well in your journey.
After a successful kidney transplant in 2007, I started the Living Kidney Donors Network (LKDN) to assist others in being so fortunate. The LKDN purpose is to inform individuals about living kidney donation and prepare them to effectively communicate their need to family members and friends. We conduct workshops at transplant hospitals and with other organizations that support individuals with kidney disease. I am also offering free webinars, the current one is titled “Having Your Donor Find YOU.” In a few short weeks after promoting this webinar, over 500 people registered.
Below is a link to the article that appeared in the AAKP, (American Association of Kidney Patients,) magazine Renalife.
http://livingkidneydonorsnetwork.org/aakp_article.pdf
I wish you well!!
Harvey Mysel
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