The first step: The Shamrock Shuffle 5K

Anyone who has known me for a long time knows how important running always was to me. I'm not sure [image error]where I picked it up but it was something I could do, not being very gifted with a ball. I often talk about how much I learned from running about life. 

But as the years have gone by, while I have continued to run, I have gotten pretty lazy about it. I walk some days and I've gotten very slow. This isn't necessarily bad because i rarely take days off. But I can still remember running up the side of the Sandia Mountain (yes, people do that here in Albuquerque) with Fred, the coach at Del Norte High School, where I used to teach and coach, and with the cross country team one summer and I actually stopped and walked. And I remember saying, "I have nothing to prove."