Top 10 Reasons to Run in the Scenic City Charity Challenge 09

The Partnership is one of eight charities participating in the Scenic City Charity Challenge, hosted by the Chattanooga Track Club on Feb. 28th. We've got our game face on and we're ready to lace up our running shoes. We need at least 50 runners to register by Feb. 28th. We're calling board members, volunteers, staff, friends of staff, friends of friends of staff....and are strongly considering hiding in the bushes downtown and accosting random runners.

So why would you be interested in running anyway? We found Nike's Top Ten Reasons to Run and would like to share them with you for your enjoyment.

• 10 - So you can get up and run at 6 AM before work, when it is 20 degrees outside and all you want to do is sleep another hour, but you know that if you do, you’ll hate yourself the rest of the day.
  
• 9 - So your toes can get so ugly to the point that you’re ashamed to wear flip-flops.
  
• 8 - So you can tell someone your weekly mileage and get the response, “50 miles?! I don’t even drive that far!” And you can smile and fake a laugh like you haven’t heard it 900 times before. Or they’ll ask how you can enjoy running 26.2 miles and then call you crazy.
  
• 7 - So you can double or even triple your shower and grocery bills.
  
• 6 - So that the checkout guy at the grocery store gives you a weird look when you’re standing in line with three jars of vaseline.
  
• 5 - So you can do laundry three times a week and still run out of matching socks.
  
• 4 - So that your muddy, dirty shoes can start piling up outside your door because they’re too smelly to bring inside, and you can listen to your neighbors complain about it everytime you run into them.
  
• 3 - So that by the time one o’clock rolls around at work, you feel like curling up under your desk and taking a two hour nap.
  
• 2 - So you can eat a huge dinner and an hour later you’re hungry again.
  
• 1 - Oh, yeah…the health benefits.

But of course, the main reason why you should run in the Charity Challenge is to support the Partnership and our mission of empowering people to build better lives. We're doing serious stuff to support the community through crisis counseling, intervention, prevention and education. Learn more at www.partnershipfca.com.

Wanna Run? Go now to: www.sceniccityhalfmarathon.com