Amy Lu's View

In honor of International Women’s Day, I signed up for the Women Run The Cities 10K on May 17. Running is one of the most reliable ways that I can feel strong and competent.

This is the first race of 2020 that I’ve signed up for, and this very moment, it feels like a leap of faith to think that I’ll be able to run a race (even a relatively short one) in just over two months. Yes, after being able to (slowly) run for about two weeks, I am once again experiencing a mysterious running-related injury that is making just walking a trick. Yes, just in time for the really nice early spring weather.

But running is all about being perserverent and optimistic. And even if I do fail to successfully run the Women Run the Twin Cities 10K, the process of preparing for it will be valuable and teach me some important life lessons (and give me blog post fodder).

I also celebrated International Women’s Day by wearing my “feMNist” t-shirt and my new She-Ra flannel shirt (courtesy of Loot Crate). I won’t lie, I don’t know much about She-Ra and have only vague memories of her from my childhood, so I don’t know if there is a connection between She-Ra and flannel.

But my shirt is super soft, and in awesome colors (including my birthday month teal) that match my feMNist shirt, and “Warrior” is emblazoned on the back.

Theme dressing: another means to feeling mighty. Even if the She-Ra graphic does look a bit like smooshed woodtick.

I wasn’t a Women’s Studies minor from UW-Eau Claire for nothing.