Cold, partly cloudy morning. Temperature 29 degrees with a 10 mph wind out of the north northwest (windchill 15.7 degrees) with snow on the ground. Not exactly what you'd expect for May 1. I didn't feel the chill so much at the start as I was running south, but my eyes were tearing up a bit when I turned to head north with nothing to break the wind. As cold as it was, I felt pretty comfortable after a couple of miles, but I was just a little short of breath for some reason. I didn't see a lot of other runners out this morning.
The other night as we were going over our calendar we pretty much decided that we're going to run in the Salt Lake Race for the Cure on May 10. My youngest daughter has really been wanting to try a 5K and I'd been thinking about it because it's a cause that's close to my sister's heart (literally). She's a breast cancer survivor who completed the last of her last chemotherapy almost two years ago. My grandmother who was a carrier of a genetic mutation known as BRCA1, died of the disease, along with my aunt and cousin. I was a bit surprised a few years back when I went to the Huntsman Cancer Center for some screening and the director of the department not only knew who my grandmother was, but sketched out our whole family tree in considerable detail -- all from memory. Although my sister was found not to have the mutation (as my father was apparently not a carrier) she still got breast cancer anyway. It's probably just out of self-interest, but I try to contribute to cancer research whenever I can.
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