June Bug Running

[OakLeaf]

I guess I'd heard a little bit about the One Run for Boston, but I didn't know until Friday that the route was going to pass a mile and a half from my house. I wasn't going to miss that. I only ran about 2-1/2 miles with the relay runners - with running out to meet them and running back from where I turned around, it gave me not quite 8 for the day, which was enough in this heat, over 90° and humid.

Generally I'm skeptical of charity events, especially since this one apparently hasn't even bothered to file for tax-exempt status (it isn't the deduction I'm worried about, it's the basic commitment to accounting that the application represents) - but it's a pretty amazing undertaking, there's a lot of healing going on among the runners, they claim to be the first non-stop cross-country running relay, and I wanted to be a little part of it.

The women officially running the stage came from the other end of Ohio, so I didn't know them - but it turns out that they were at the same place I was when the race was stopped, at Commonwealth & Mass. Ave. One was running, the other had gone as a spectator since she'd been injured. I was really glad I ran with them today, even for such a short distance.