This weekend will be the first race I have done since I have moved to Selma.

Come Saturday, I will be racing with some of the best as we participate in Run for Kenya.

I’m going to die, everybody.

The last race I did was a horrible 15K trail run at Monte Sano in Huntsville during the winter time this year.

It. Was. Cold.

I had never been so cold, and to be running in the mountains wasn’t any easier.

Thankfully, this 10K will be on pavement and on level ground (I hope). And once I pass those first two miles, where it feels like I’m going to die, it will be a breeze as my body kicks into this type of trance mode where I just run without thinking. It also depends on where I am in my running playlist, which includes songs that my co-worker, Courtney Hemphill, would make fun of me for, but I digress.

I enjoy learning about what each race or CrossFit competition I do is for.

Most of the time, it is to raise funds for a certain gym, but to be able to help those across the world have something that I usually take for granted, is something that I can definitely suffer through for.

Integrity Worldwide was influenced by Isaiah 61 and started out to rebuild, renew and restore Maasai villages in southern rural Kenya that have been destroyed by extreme poverty.

Integrity Worldwide works alongside local ministers and spiritual leaders in Africa to empower them with resources and spread the Gospel. In the past 20 years, Christianity has spread through almost every Maasai community.

That is something to be proud of, and I’m excited to contribute my hour (that’s my goal runtime anyway) to this cause.

Wish us luck.