This last weekend, our family walked/ran in East Missoula’s 2014 I Run For Kicks 5k/10k, a community fundraiser for school shoes. The route crosses the pictured bridge; on the way back down, the view to the right skims across the Clark Fork River down to the Sha-Ron Fishing Access. If you plan to travel to a running or walking event, check out Missoula’s schedule at both
Runners Edge and Run Wild Missoula. There are reasons the Missoula Marathon has a high rating among the running people - friendly people, clean air, vast skies, gorgeous mountain views, everything essential within about 15 minutes drive…in contrast to a bigger city marathon that features noisy gridlock traffic, congested sky hemmed in by tall buildings - are you convinced yet?
Before winding back through residential neighborhoods, the Clark Fork River is one of the views on East Missoula’s annual I Run For Kicks 5K fundraiser. Doesn’t get much better than this for inspiration en route. Unless you also see a beaver family cruising the river, which happened during last year‘s event.
Let’s be clear and up front about this (to avoid having my inbox flooded with misguided celebrity participation requests, of course) : I walk. I do not run - not even for Kicks. But I will walk for Kicks, along with TBHE (The Best Husband Ever) and DD (Darling Daughter aka TOC - The Only Child). Well, she'll run. But we still love her.
Check out East Missoula’s official I Run For Kicks site here to see updates on today’s 5K fundraiser for school shoes for local kids in need.
Big thanks for sponsorship this year to Montana Cabinets, Runner’s Edge, Liberty Vapor, Red Umbrella Media, River of Life, and Riverside Coffee House.
And if you want to be inspired by some serious walking stats, look here at Scott’s updates as he’s Walking to Retirement.
