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Running for a Good Cause

Workout: 30 minutes strength training, 40 minute run I love to sign up for races that support a good cause.  And this was a good cause!  The race/walk was a benefit to help raise funds for the family of a little girl in the community fighting neuroblastoma.   I don't know this child personally, but I follow her Facebook page and pray for her daily.  When the family posted about a 5K event I knew I had to be there!  So check this out - the entire event was put together by students!!  A class at Florida Gulf Coast University put together this event for a project, and boy was I impressed.  This was a fun run - no timing, no places, etc.  But still, a 5K is no easy task to take on.  I thought everything was well organized, put together nicely, and an amazing crowd showed up for something done by students!!   And because this was a fun run I knew it would be the perfect race to be Lyla's first.  I signed her up for the 5K (children 7 and under were free).  I knew that i