This weekend will be my 6th year running Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure’s Race For Hope DC 5K.

My running “Idol” David Cook ran in 2009 for his brother (who ended up passing away the night before the race that year, but David ran anyway). In 2009 I donated and told myself I was going to train to run it myself in 2010. 

January 2010, I started running and getting health. I ran in 2010, PRed in 2011 and have been back every year since. 

• 2010 – I went to PA to visit my friend Kelly and we came down to DC to run together
• 2011 – I ran solo, but had a bunch of friends come to DC to support me
• 2012 – I was a new VA/DC resident and ran with my friend Sarah who came to visit
• 2013 -My sister ran it with me
• 2014 – I ran solo, but found David Cook on the course and captured an epic running selfie with him
• 2015 – My boyfriend, T, will be joining me this year. I pretty sure he is going to beat me (damn natural athletic ability) based off our run yesterday, but I’m excited to be with him for his first official race ever (especially since it was my first official race ever)