5-K Walk-Run

It's been about a year since our colleague Scot Riggins' mom died of breast cancer. His family is participating in a Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure back home in the US, so he and Jill decided to do a 5-K along with them, and to invite their friends here to do the same. The family in the US will be doing it Saturday morning, so even though it is still Friday in the US, Scot and Jill decided to do theirs on the same date here.

At about 6:30 this morning, a van full of 20 people and 2 dogs left Kudjip and drove 5 kilometers up the highway. Ages ranged from Lydia Radcliffe, age 10, to Dr. Larry Hull, age 71. The group included 1 pregnant lady (only 1 that we know of!) who is only a couple of weeks away from her due date! She had run the same distance a couple of years ago, non-pregnant only a few minutes slower than she walked it today!

The folks separated into various groups, by pace. Bill McCoy, Erin Meier and Hannah Ficker (student) lead the pack. Slower runners were then followed by the faster walkers. I drove behind the group, in case anyone decided they needed to do a shorter distance, but no one asked for a ride. I also monitored the traffic coming from behind the group, and tooted the car horn with the approach of each vehicle.

Scot is on the right in the 3rd photo (that's Priscilla and Jim Radcliffe with him), and Jill is in the last photo, clearly happy with the whole event.

There are Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure events all year long in different parts of the country. Check it out at http://ww5.komen.org/.

Here's a link to a page where you can donate to cancer awareness and research in honor of Sue Riggins.


I will post these photos and more on Facebook, and tag all the people in the photos, in case you want to know who they all are. I'll either edit this to add a link to the photos, or put it in a separate post.

Click here to link to the photos.