SHE BELIEVED SHE COULD SO SHE DID 1M, 5K, 10K, 13.1, 26.2!
*THIS IS A VIRTUAL RACE!
WHAT IS A VIRTUAL RACE? A VIRTUAL RACE IS A RACE THAT CAN BE RUN
(OR WALKED) FROM ANY LOCATION YOU CHOOSE. YOU CAN RUN, JOG, OR
WALK ON THE ROAD, ON THE TRAIL, ON THE TREADMILL, AT THE GYM OR ON THE
TRACK (OR EVEN AT ANOTHER RACE). YOU GET TO RUN YOUR OWN RACE, AT
YOUR OWN PACE, AND TIME IT YOURSELF. AND YOUR MEDAL WILL BE SHIPPED
DIRECTLY TO YOU. COMPLETE A VIRTUAL 5K, 10K, HALF MARATHON AND MORE!
*THIS IS A BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED MEDAL BY TERRI AKINS. PLEASE SEE MORE
OF HER ART IN HER ETSY STORE, AKINSARTDESIGN
[https://www.etsy.com/shop/AkinsArtDesign]. THIS MEDAL MEASURES
QUITE A BIT LARGER THAN OUR OTHER MEDALS. IT'S 5 INCHES! AND YOU
WILL GET A BIB WITH YOUR MEDAL. YOU CAN POST YOUR RESULTS ON OUR
FACEBOOK PAGE HERE.
[https://www.facebook.com/groups/826439490783073/]
WE ARE SO EXCITED TO TEAM WITH VIRTUAL RUN WORLD FOR SEVERAL AMAZING
RACES! CHECK OUT OUR SHE BELIEVED SHE COULD SO SHE DID 1M, 5K, 10K,
13.1, 26.2 RACE AND GET THIS BEAUTIFUL 5 INCH MEDAL! THERE ARE SO MANY
AMAZING COLORS AND DETAILS THAT REALLY MAKE THIS MEDAL INCREDIBLE!
PLUS, WE’LL BE DONATING AT LEAST 15% FROM EVERY REGISTRATION
TO SOLES 4 SOULS [https://soles4souls.org/]. SINCE 2006 SOLES4SOULS
HAS COLLECTED AND DISTRIBUTED 26 MILLION PAIRS OF SHOES TO THOSE IN
NEED IN 127 COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD AND ALL 50 STATES IN THE U.S.
WHAT: THIS IS A 1 MILE, 5K, 10K, 13.1, 26.2 VIRTUAL RUN (OR WALK)
TO CELEBRATE BELIEVING THAT YOU CAN DO IT. YOU CAN DO ANYTHING! YOU
CHOOSE WHICH DISTANCE YOU WANT TO COMPLETE.
WHEN: COMPLETE YOUR RACE ANY TIME IN 2020!
MEDALS AND BIBS WILL SHIP OUT WITHIN 2 TO 5 DAYS OF SIGNING UP.
WHERE: YOU CHOOSE THE COURSE AND YOU TIME YOURSELF (YOU’LL REPORT
YOUR FINISHING TIME TO US).
WHY: BECAUSE THIS IS OUR WAY OF CELEBRATING BELIEVING THAT YOU CAN
DO ANYTHING!
COST: THE PRICE IS $25 AND THAT INCLUDES YOUR MEDAL AND SHIPPING.
PLUS, AT LEAST 15% OF EVERY ENTRY WILL BE DONATED TO SOLES 4 SOULS
[https://soles4souls.org/]. *WE ARE IN NO WAY AFFILIATED WITH THIS
CHARITY, WE LIKE TO CHOOSE A DIFFERENT CHARITY FOR EACH OF OUR RACES
AND ARE HAPPY TO RAISE FUNDS FOR THEM.
THESE ARE THE WORDS FROM THE ARTIST OF THIS MEDAL:
SHE BELIEVED SHE COULD SO SHE DID. WE BELIEVED WE COULD ALSO. WE WERE
TANGLED UP FOR SO LONG, BUT WE MANAGED TO GET FREE ENOUGH TO CREATE
OUR NEXT VIRTUAL RUN MEDAL. THIS IS ANOTHER LARGE, 5 INCH MEDAL
DESIGNED BY STARVING ARTISTS AT VIRTUAL RUN WORLD. RUN ANYTIME,
ANYWHERE AND ANY DISTANCE.
BEING ONE OF THE RACE DIRECTORS FOR SAGE RAT RUN, A RUN EVENT IN
WASHINGTON STATE, AND A RUNNER, I HAVE MADE SOME OBSERVATIONS. ONE OF
THEM IS THERE ARE NEVER ENOUGH PORT-A-POTTIES AT RUN EVENTS. ANOTHER
IS THERE ARE A LOT OF FEMALE RUNNERS OUT THERE. SAGE RAT RUN AVERAGES
ABOUT 70 PERCENT FEMALE PARTICIPANTS. I NOTICED THAT MOST OF THOSE
FEMALE RUNNERS, INCLUDING MY WIFE, WERE AHEAD OF ME. BUT I DO NOT MIND
BEING “CHICKED” AT ALL, MY RUNNING GOAL IS TO FINISH ALIVE. I HAVE
SET MY RUNNING PACE WITH THOSE OVER 80 YEARS OLD OR THE KIDS UNDER 5.
I WILL ALSO ADMIT I HAVE BEEN “CHICKED” BY MOMS, CRUISING WITH TWO
KIDS IN A STROLLER, DRINKING A STARBUCKS LATTE, DURING A HALF
MARATHON, WHILE QUALIFYING FOR BOSTON.
SO I DID SOME MATHEMATICAL, SCIENTIFIC AND HISTORICAL CALCULATIONS
ABOUT FEMALE RUNNERS. MEN, AS A GROUP AND INDIVIDUALLY, HAVE ALL BEEN
PASSED BY FEMALE RUNNERS. I HAVE CONCLUDED THAT EVERY MALE IN HISTORY
HAS BEEN “CHICKED” AT ONE TIME IN THEIR LIFE. IF A MALE SAYS HE
HAS NEVER BEEN “CHICKED” THEN HE IS LYING. MEN ARE LIARS AND
CAN’T BE TRUSTED WITH FACTS, MATH AND SCIENCE. CHICKED: (VERB) – A
DEFINITION THAT CAN NOT FOUND IN WEBSTER’S DICTIONARY, BUT I SUM UP
AS A FEMALE ATHLETE WHO HAS OUT PERFORMED A MALE IN A PHYSICAL
ACTIVITY, SUCH AS RUNNING.
LET US LOOK BACK IN HISTORY FOR SOME EXAMPLES. IN 396 B.C., ONE OF THE
EARLIEST RECORDED EVENTS OF BEING “CHICKED” IS KYNISKA, A SPARTAN
PRINCESS, WHO WINS AN OLYMPIC CHARIOT RACE, RESERVED FOR MALES. THIS
RESULTED IN THE FIRST FEMALE MOSAIC ARTIST REPRESENTATION OF TWO GUYS
BEING “CHICKED.” NOTICE THE STUNNED LOOK IN THEIR FACE.
IN THE 776 B.C. THE FIRST OLYMPICS WERE HELD IN ANCIENT GREECE. THE
WOMEN WERE EXCLUDED BECAUSE THE MEN WERE BEING “CHICKED” SO OFTEN,
SO THEY COMPETED IN THEIR OWN RUNNING EVENT CALLED “GAMES OF
HERA.” THIS WAS TO HONOR THE GREEK GODDESS HERA, WHO RULED OVER
WOMEN AND THE EARTH. HERA, BY THE WAY, MEANS “GODDESS OF ALL THINGS
CHICKED.”
LOCATED IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM IS AN 11.4 CM BRONZE STATUTE OF
A SPARTAN GIRL RUNNING. THE BRONZE IS DATED AROUND 500 B.C. YOU WILL
NOTICE SHE IS LOOKING BACK AT THE MALES THAT SHE PASSED DURING HER
RUN, HER FACE GRIMACING IN THEIR LACK OF TRAINING.
WHY HAVE WOMEN EXCELLED IN RUNNING, WALKING, AND AS MY WIFE SAYS, JUST
ABOUT EVERYTHING ELSE? BECAUSE THEY, “BELIEVED THEY COULD, SO THEY
DID!”
A STUDY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN TESTED A HYPOTHESIS THAT WOMEN
ULTRAMARATHON RUNNERS HAVE GREATER FATIGUE RESISTANCE THAN DO EQUALLY
TRAINED MEN WHOSE PERFORMANCES ARE SUPERIOR UP TO THE MARATHON
DISTANCE. AT ABOUT THE 90K DISTANCE IS WHERE WOMEN BEGIN TO EXCEL OVER
MEN IN PERFORMANCE. I THINK THAT POSITIVE ATTITUDE HAS SOMETHING TO DO
WITH IT, AND THAT IS NOT THE SARCASM TALKING EITHER.
HOW FAR HAVE WOMEN COME, AND HOW FAST? THEY WERE AHEAD OF US IN THE
BEGINNING, MEN AS A SPECIES JUST HAVE NOT NOTICED. MEN WERE BUSY
INVENTING PORT-A-POTTIES FOR WOMEN AND BUILDING MAN CAVES. BEFORE
1967, NO WOMAN WAS EVEN ALLOWED TO RUN IN A MARATHON, NOT SINCE THE
FIRST ONE TOOK PLACE IN THE 1896 OLYMPICS IN ATHENS. IT WAS JUST
ASSUMED THAT WOMEN COULD NEVER ENDURE THE GRUELING 42.2 KILOMETERS
FROM START TO FINISH. BESIDES, IT WAS SAID, THEY’D DAMAGE THEIR
INTERNAL ORGANS AND COMPROMISE THEIR FERTILITY.
IN 1984, AT THE LOS ANGELES OLYMPICS, THE INAUGURAL WOMEN’S MARATHON
TOOK PLACE, AND AMERICAN JOAN BENOIT SAMUELSON CLAIMED THE GOLD
MEDAL IN STUNNING FASHION, BREAKING AWAY FROM THE CHASE PACK AT JUST
OVER 4 MILES INTO THE 26.2 MILE RACE. WHEN JOAN SAILED ACROSS THE
FINISH LINE ALONE AND IN FIRST PLACE, DISTANCE RUNNING FOR AMERICAN
WOMEN WOULD NEVER BE THE SAME.
DURING RUNNING EVENTS, MEN HAVE ONLY EXCELLED AND BEEN FEARLESS IN THE
USE OF A PORT-A-POTTIE. WOMEN APPARENTLY HAVE US BEATEN IN ALL OTHER
CATEGORIES. SO IF YOU ARE STRUGGLING WITH MOTIVATION, MILES, OR
DETERMINATION, TAKE A LESSON FROM HISTORY, SCIENCE AND DO THE MATH,
BELIEVE YOU CAN AND YOU WILL. RUNNING IS A FREEDOM TO BE CHERISHED AND
APPRECIATED FOR EVERYONE, EVEN MALES. GRAB A “SHE BELIEVED SHE
COULD, SO SHE DID” MEDAL AND CELEBRATE YOUR MILES.
WHAT IS A VIRTUAL RACE? A VIRTUAL RACE IS A RACE THAT CAN BE RUN
(OR WALKED) FROM ANY LOCATION YOU CHOOSE. YOU CAN RUN, JOG, OR
WALK ON THE ROAD, ON THE TRAIL, ON THE TREADMILL, AT THE GYM OR ON THE
TRACK (OR EVEN AT ANOTHER RACE). YOU GET TO RUN YOUR OWN RACE, AT
YOUR OWN PACE, AND TIME IT YOURSELF. AND YOUR MEDAL WILL BE SHIPPED
DIRECTLY TO YOU. COMPLETE A VIRTUAL 5K, 10K, HALF MARATHON AND MORE!
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