Kito the Adventurer: Next Adventure...

This blog was created. Lots of exciting things going on -- life has lots of twists and turns. Hopefully, we'll all keep it real; keep it complex. Best regards, Kito Robinson

Sunday, April 30, 2006

I Didn't Say That I Beat All The Blind Kids

There was a run - a fundraiser -- that benefitted the Children's Center for the Visually Impaired in the Kansas City Metropolitan region. My law firm sponsored a bunch of employees to participate in the event. It was a good run for me. I got up at 6:30 a.m. in the morning. It was a long day for me.

I have to admit I was kind of nervous about running. Main reason because usually the most I ever run is 3.1 miles (5K). It also makes me nervous to completely rely on the course organizers to get me water when I need it. Typically, a course will have water every mile, or every five miles. Long story short, I own a lumbar waist mounted camelbak. It fits my keys, cell phone, some powerbar energy gel, map of the course, and, of course, the water camelbak. I totally wanted to bring it, but didn't want to because I'd be the only one. And I was the only one. I was also a little nervous because I didn't have a running buddy. And I didn't want to be last.

At the event there were a number of blind and visually impaired children that participated. It was pretty cool. They belong to Adventure Fitness; an organization that train and encourage blind and visually impaired children to participate in physical fitness activities, like running or karate. In this event, a sighted person held a cloth, about 12-inch by 3-inch, and a blind or visually impaired person held the other end ("tethered runner"). They ran, jogged, or walked together.

People keep asking me how I did. My goal was to finish and I did it. (And yes for the record one of the tethered runners did complete the run before me ("beat me"); but not all of them.)

I'm excited about this summer:
lawyering stuff
volunteering
swimming
running
biking

Missing KC:
acting community
comfort stuff -- I know where stuff is okay

This run was just what I needed to get motivated. I have to learn how to do the breaststroke (and keep practicing the crawl and backstroke; get some open water stuff going). I think I'll see if my nieces want to volunteer or run with me.

1 Comments:

At Sunday, 30 April, 2006, Blogger Fun Time Kito said...

Oh, the other cool thing about the tethered runners is that they all had bright-roadside-orange t-shirts that had fun sayings printed on the back like -- "Caution this runner reads braille".

 

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