Spring Break
Running Circles
Nicole Pierson
Issue date: 9/1/07 Section: Sports
Every school has one. The Type A, the over-achiever, the one that is apart of everything and when everything isn’t enough, she creates a new club. Usually she has been this way since she were little, monopolizing time in the sandbox, earning all her Scout badges before everyone else, heading
up the prom committee, participating in Junior Achievement, and so on. Don’t get me wrong. I love these people. Some of them are my best friends, and like my company, I too love misery.
Ever since I was a little girl, I have been addicted to participating, and it didn’t stop when I came to SW. Case in point, I am the 2007-2008 SBA Evening Vice President, Vice President of Sports for ESLS, and a columnist and Co-Section Editor of The Commentator. So when I decided to create the SW Runners, people weren’t surprised. Now, I’m not telling you this so my mom can earn her “My kid is better than your kid” bumper sticker. I’m telling you this because I was so busy being there for everything else that I had stopped being there for me.
Over the last two years of law school, I have waned in my priorities of caring for myself, especially the few weeks before finals. If you aren’t genetically perfect or a health freak, then law school will make you gain weight. Let’s face it, in our society, our city, and our business: Looks Matter. Of course it isn’t the only thing, but you are lying to yourself if you think it doesn’t matter a little.
I decided to rearrange my priorities a little, and I started running again. Of course with my nature, I couldn’t just run three miles a day. I had to start a club and run 26.2. On Feb. 17, I will be running the National Breast Cancer Marathon in Jacksonville Beach, Fla., and The Commentator asked me to take my readers along for the ride. So over the next few months you will get to hear it all: the aches, pains, victories,
and uphill battles of my training. And I might even provide insight into how health and fitness impacts the law. I hope you enjoy.
Nicole Pierson may be reached at redsoxgir04@gmail.com.
up the prom committee, participating in Junior Achievement, and so on. Don’t get me wrong. I love these people. Some of them are my best friends, and like my company, I too love misery.
Ever since I was a little girl, I have been addicted to participating, and it didn’t stop when I came to SW. Case in point, I am the 2007-2008 SBA Evening Vice President, Vice President of Sports for ESLS, and a columnist and Co-Section Editor of The Commentator. So when I decided to create the SW Runners, people weren’t surprised. Now, I’m not telling you this so my mom can earn her “My kid is better than your kid” bumper sticker. I’m telling you this because I was so busy being there for everything else that I had stopped being there for me.
Over the last two years of law school, I have waned in my priorities of caring for myself, especially the few weeks before finals. If you aren’t genetically perfect or a health freak, then law school will make you gain weight. Let’s face it, in our society, our city, and our business: Looks Matter. Of course it isn’t the only thing, but you are lying to yourself if you think it doesn’t matter a little.
I decided to rearrange my priorities a little, and I started running again. Of course with my nature, I couldn’t just run three miles a day. I had to start a club and run 26.2. On Feb. 17, I will be running the National Breast Cancer Marathon in Jacksonville Beach, Fla., and The Commentator asked me to take my readers along for the ride. So over the next few months you will get to hear it all: the aches, pains, victories,
and uphill battles of my training. And I might even provide insight into how health and fitness impacts the law. I hope you enjoy.
Nicole Pierson may be reached at redsoxgir04@gmail.com.
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