My racing bib and timing chip
It’s 7AM. the temperature is just above freezing. I’m wearing shorts, t-shirts, and gloves and I’m cold. At 8:45, it’s warmer, I’m soaked in sweat and tired. A 10k fun run has just finished and I’ve run my first race in decades.
But something else has happened behind the scenes. Something that I and the other 15000 participants are barely cognizant of. Two Houston charities have just raised several thousand dollars to support their community efforts. The process has been fun for the participants and the city’s people will benefit without having to get government involved.
But it’s always this way in Houston. This city has made it a habit to mix charity fund-raising and fun events for decades.
We seem to love our soirees, our garden parties, our fun runs, our cotillions and it seems that any big event in the city has to have a charity event as a reason for existing. It is almost mandatory.
What is amazing to me is that once a charity event is established that it seems to grow and grow. In fact it seems like events without a charity aspect don’t grow as much or as quickly as those that do.
I’m sure that these things take place in other cities but I think it’s a specialty of our city. We may not be the biggest or most sophisticated but we are the kindest.
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