It's typically assumed that running requires swift strides and lengthy legs, but we tend to overlook how hard that pale pink organ hidden behind our ribs works. Each day we breathe about 20,000 times. For most people, breathing is an effortless, trivial activity--heck, we could do it with our eyes closed--but let's not forget just how crucial this simple motion really is: It's a matter of life or death.
Show your lungs a little extra TLC at Cincinnati's inaugural Free to Breathe 5K Run/Walk and 1 Mile Walk on Saturday, Oct. 1 at 10 a.m. This 3.1-mile course begins in front of Acosta Sales and Marketing and loops throughout the scenic, flat roads of Sharonville.
The online registration fee is $20 (through Monday, Sept. 26), the mail-in fee is $23 (must be received by Friday, Sept. 23), and the race day fee is $25. Race day registration opens at 8:30 a.m. T-shirts are guaranteed to all pre-registered participants.
This race was organized in the loving memory of Morgan Alloway, a Cincinnati resident who lost her battle to lung cancer in October 2010. Morgan was a 29-year-old, non-smoking mother of two young girls when she was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer just two years earlier.
Free to Breathe is a national organization dedicated to creating a public awareness of lung cancer and raising vital funding for research.
Lung cancer is a horrible disease that will take the lives of over 7,210 people in Ohio this year. Join the fight and be grateful for the air-pumping organ that works constantly to keep us living--and laughing--around the clock.
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