Chicago Lung Run 10K Race Report
Today was the Chicago Lung Run!
You know, the one Anne has been working her butt off for, doing MAJOR fundraising?!
I am so happy that I got to be on her team this year, and do my little part in fundraising. In the end, Team Take My Breath Away raised $2160 – mostly by Anne’s efforts! That, is amazing.
I felt like I should have been more reflective during the race, thinking about lung cancer patients… but I just couldn’t stop thinking about how amazing it is that the team raised so much money for lung cancer research and awareness. The race felt like a celebration of everyone’s hard work, to me. Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who donated!!!
Have you ever participated in non-required fundraising for a race?
I felt so good after the race, I decided to go home and register for two more races. Ha ha ha.
Oh, and that was “felt so good” as in, spirit-wise. Ha! Not race performance wise! I had a fun time running the race with Anne and Melanie (and seeing Ian!), but I think I messed up my fueling during my warm-up run (part of which I ran with xaarlin!!!) and I had a little mini crash during the 10K where I had to quickly eat two GU then find water. But! I felt better after that!
This is a fab race and I hope I am able to do it again next year! It feels really good to support a cause so important to Anne. And really, this cause is now important to me, and I hope other people joined teams to support their friends/family and now feel the same way.
Themocracy
Too bad about the fueling dilemma, but luckily you had the gus and it was resolved. Anyway, I’m glad I was able to contribute for the cause at Sausage Fest! 🙂
Congratulations – good job on the fundraising!
I did fundraising for the 20 KM of Brussels a few years ago, and you are right, running it felt like a celebration with the other people in our team.
You guys are amazing! Way to raise some funds. Sorry to hear about the crash that is no fun.
Thank you AGAIN for joining the team and helping to raise funds all summer! You know what a hard time I had with that for last year’s race, so I so appreciate your help and support on a cause that is so important to me.
Last year I was really reflective during the race, but a lot of it was because I was running alone versus with friends. And the 10k seemed to spread runners out so much more than the 5k (in that I could keep up with the crowd for the entire 5k – not so much yesterday!), so by the end, it sort of felt like we were just doing a long run together, rather than a race. but it is really cool to see so many people coming out to support the same cause, but on the other, it’s sad that so many people’s lives are touched by this, especially when you see how many people are running in memory of someone, rather than in support of someone like we did.
Even when I was writing this I thought about the difference between writing lung cancer “victims” vs “patients”… was definitely thinking about how many people were there in memory. 🙁
Great job on the race & fundraising! Glad you were able to recover from your crash.
It was so nice to meet you!
And you too! I had a lot of fun chatting! And I told Bobbi today about your SiL living in the same hood!
I hope you had a nice rest of the weekend! 🙂
Congrats to team Take My Breath Away!! You all did awesome!
I have never done any fundraising for a race. I am a chicken. And I have to do enough with the kids crap…
You know, I would be chicken if it was REQUIRED. Like… my entry to a race. But! It was fun to do it as a team! I would say you should join next year, but I am sure there will be something going on that morning! 😉
Good job on the fundraising…I meant to donate…so sorry. I was on the page on Friday but then didn’t have CC in hand when that was the options. Great job though!
The race is definitely a celebration for the culmination of all your hard work with fundraising!