First of all, you'll noticed ran significantly earlier today. This morning I mysteriously moved from my bed to the couch, and I'm not quite sure how. Then I was visited in a dream soon after by a man who told me it would probably storm later and I needed to run early. (You know, this could've been my dad telling me this as I was half awake. But still.) Not wanting to take chances, I decided to go ahead and run before 8:30 P.M.
Unfortunately though, I didn't actually wake up until past noon, almost one, and I didn't start running until 2:30. So although it was overcast, it was still hopelessly muggy and hot.
THEN something else happened. 7 laps around my neighborhood is 3.5 miles, and I run that route about 98% of the time. This time, somewhere around the 5th lap, an older man that was getting his mail asked me how far I was going and I told him and he nodded. Then my last lap I was so hot and tired and going really slow and he came out with a cold water bottle and gave it to me to drink. So I paused my workout for a second and drank it. He asked me what I was running for and I told him and he was just very encouraging and thoughtful because I was so thirsty and hot and I really needed that water. So thank you and God bless you. That was the nicest thing that's happened to me in awhile.
Will you give someone something to drink today? It only takes a few minutes to donate.
~Haley
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