Run With Me (for DSAPI)

They say life begins at 40. Maybe so. At 40 we celebrated my eldest son's first birthday. I am now 49 and next year, on my 50th birthday—I want to run 5k for the very first time in my life. 

I have invited my Stat friends to join me and now I am publicly calling all women who'll be turning 50 next year to "begin their lives" and run with me. Run with me and help the Down Syndrome Association of the Phils., Inc. (DSAPI), the recipient of this fun run. 

My 7-year old daughter has Down Syndrome and our association is in great need of financial assistance. I still don't know where this event will take place but it will be on Saturday, June 7, 2008. If you know someone who will turn 49-51 next year, please encourage her to join. It will be a fun run or walk so as not to pressure anyone. And it doesn't have to be 5k for everybody. She can cut it down to 3k if she wants. Our goal here is to enjoy ourselves, not to injure our bodies! We are running not to please anyone. We will run to please ourselves (and benefit the DSAPI while having the time of our lives). 

Thank you, Jaymie (the bull runner), for the tips you gave me. Hope you stay in touch. Have to end this post to begin my training.

Why Start Now?

Hi! I'm Nora, a 49 year-old single mother of 9 and 7. You may wonder why my children could already be the grandchildren of women my age . . .

Well, I really had no intention of settling down because I didn't know how to raise children. To put it bluntly, I "hated" children before. Being an only child, I wasn't exposed to having children in the house. I pitied mothers with screaming children with them and I abhorred the idea of taking care of babies' poops.

But as the saying goes, God works in very mysterious ways.

5 months before turning 39, I just found myself walking down the aisle and bubbling "I do" to a 27-year-old man  whom I thought I truly loved. Don't you worry. For now I won't be writing why our marriage didn't last . . . maybe later.

Why am I starting this blog? Why start now?

My son and I started our tennis lessons as soon as the school ended last March. It started out fine. But now that we are already in the 'advanced level', I felt out of breath every time I run from left to right of the tennis court. That's when I thought that I should go back to running.

I used to run in my younger years but of course, that was more than 2 decades ago. When my Stat friends met in Greenbelt last May 12, I told them I'm planning to run again and even asked them to join me and run 5k next year on my 50 th birthday. My dear friend Agnes suggested that if there's no fun run scheduled that day, then we could just organize a fun run ourselves.

Before I went to bed that night, it just hit me that I could also invite all the other 50-year old women to run with us. I surfed the Internet for Milo Marathons and I was very lucky to get in touch with Jaymie, the bull runner.

Since then, she has been my inspiration. Hence, this blog.