I read an article
in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel about a woman who runs cross country and
track for the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
At age fifteen
she lost half of a lung due to a congenital disease. She was diagnosed with thyroid cancer at age
seventeen, necessitating the removal of her thyroid. Yet she competes as a college athlete and
runs fifty miles a week.
This lit my
fire. I had been working on running a fifty-mile
week last summer when I learned I had relapsed.
I decided to limit my runs to no more than five kilometers a day because
I wanted to use what energy I had for other things, namely, my art work.
Today I ran just over five miles giving me
fifty-six miles for the week. That
includes not being able to run Monday (MRI at UW), and Thursday (UW for
chemotherapy). It felt fantastic. Then I became very nauseous in the afternoon.
Damned cancer.
But I did it.
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