Yesterday was one of those days where synchronicity takes over and everything seems to fit into a larger whole. In this case, the day turned into a tapestry of events and activities related to CCFA’s1 Team Challenge.2
Our weekly Team Challenge practice run began at 9:00 am and for one hour we ran laps along Lake Michigan in Milwaukee’s Veterans Park and past the Milwaukee Art Museum. We just managed to complete our run and were socializing3 in the parking lot when the weather shifted dramatically. Everyone jumped into their cars as a drenching, monsoon-style4 downpour started. I watched the thermometer in my car go from 69-degrees to 47-degrees within only 1–2 minutes time. If our run had been ten minutes later, we would have had a very rude finish. Read the rest of this entry »
- CCFA is the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America. [↩]
- For those of you not familiar with Team Challenge, it trains people to run or walk a half marathon (13.1 miles) in order to raise both research funds and awareness for Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. [↩]
- See kids ... you don’t need a cell phone or computer to do social networking. [↩]
- Even though I’ve been to India four times in the last decade, I can’t claim to be a monsoon expert — I’ve only visited during the Winter dry season. [↩]
