
{"id":2753,"date":"2008-06-05T07:26:10","date_gmt":"2008-06-05T15:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=2753"},"modified":"2008-06-05T07:26:10","modified_gmt":"2008-06-05T15:26:10","slug":"recently-running-with-a-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2008\/06\/05\/recently-running-with-a-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Recently: Running with a story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/recently060508resized.jpg'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/recently060508resized.jpg\" alt=\"Scott Adams, with his son Tyler in Chapel Hill, before beginning his uber-thon. Photo by Valarie Schwartz.\"width=\"150\" height=\"200\" align=\"left\"\/><\/a><strong><em>By Valarie Schwartz<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After writing a story yesterday about Scott Adams\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 quest to run across North Carolina, I hardly slept last night. Phantom aches in my lower torso kept waking me up, making me wonder if I shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be encouraging him in my writing to just run as far as Chapel Hill and the arms of his loving wife and son and call it a day, then spend the next year raising money and awareness about cancer before finishing the run to the coast.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nHe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been running across the mountains since May 27, when he left Murphy on Bike Route 2, running 40-plus miles per day, with the plan of reaching Manteo 18 days and 740 or so miles and four pairs of shoes later.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThat\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s three weeks of running six days and resting one while receiving fortifying food, water and support from family and friends who have scheduled Scott-time into their lives. <\/p>\n<p>What makes Scott run?<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been running all my life,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said from the terrace of the sweet Dogwood Acres cottage he and Mindy and Tyler, 9, so peacefully share. It started with cross-country in high school, and since college he has run at least two marathons (up to six) a year. <\/p>\n<p>With this wild run he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hoping to raise $25,000 for the American Cancer Society.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153One in four people in the U.S. is affected with cancer at some point in their life,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Adams, 40, IT director for the School of Information and Library Science at UNC. <\/p>\n<p>Cancer has kept its distance from Adams and his family, but his heart has not been protected from the pain felt by other loved ones. In July 2005, he and his best friend, Les Chapin paid homage to Chapin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s since-childhood-friend, Jay Clark, who died of bladder cancer, with a 200-mile run\/bike ride (Adams running, Chapin pedaling) along the Blue Ridge Parkway that raised $8,000 for the cancer society. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Since then, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve encountered a number of cancer survivors and heard their stories,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Adams said as he recalled those he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d known who didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t survive, like his college roommate\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mother who died of breast cancer and a close friend of the family in Wilson who was the young mother of three. Most recently, while running a race in his hometown of Melbourne, Fla., he saw the father of a girl he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d grown up with. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I asked about Lisa and learned that she had died of cancer a year-and-a-half ago. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It affects entire families and generations. In the same way patients fight the disease with their loved ones, I will tackle the miles together with family and close friends, and as a team we hope to make some small difference,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said before beginning the race.<\/p>\n<p>The first week brought plenty of pain for Adams. His feet were sporting five blisters on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153His feet are killing him,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Mindy, pastor at Chapel in the Pines Presbyterian Church. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153But he isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t complaining. His spirits are really good.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Mindy remains in Chapel Hill with Tyler until school ends next week, but her mother and aunt will be his support team for a portion of this week as Scott makes his way to Chapel Hill, where he will take a day\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rest.<\/p>\n<p>Scott starts his road days at 7 a.m. with a ride by his support team to his starting point after eating two peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and a container of yogurt. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Once you get moving, after about four miles, it feels pretty good,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I can feel horrible at 10 a.m., then down the road feel wonderful \u00e2\u20ac\u201d or the opposite. How you feel in the morning is never how you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to feel later.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Especially on 47-mile days, like Sunday, with steep inclines from Little Switzerland to Lenior. At lunchtime, his team provides a chair and a ham and cheese sandwich that he eats while icing his legs and feet. <\/p>\n<p>Post-run, his constant companion is ice \u00e2\u20ac\u201d either in gel packs or the bathtub. <\/p>\n<p>Mindy said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even come close to comprehending his pain.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Tyler has his own take on his father\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s quest.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pretty cool. Nobody else I know could run as far as Daddy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s running,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Tyler said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153When he ran 200 miles, I thought that was really good. But now, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m wowed out!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Who wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be?<\/p>\n<p>Watch Scott run through the miles and North Carolina sights, sounds and snakes by following his blog at runnc2008.ning.com, where contributions can be made and maybe somebody can blog some sense into him and make him take a year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s break. Or continue cheering him on \u00e2\u20ac\u201d we all have to do whatever it is we have to do. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Valarie Schwartz After writing a story yesterday about Scott Adams\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 quest to run across North Carolina, I hardly slept last night. 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