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b'Today I present the second in a series of episodes that I\\u2019m calling \\u201cRunning Blogcasts\\u201d featuring the writing of fellow runners in our community who have a talent for the written word.\\xa0 The author of today\\u2019s episode is Kim Cowart. (Kow-ahrt).\\n\\xa0\\nKim is one of the writers for the \\u201cReasons to Run\\u201d blog over at Deseretnews.com.\\xa0 She\\u2019s a 35 year old mother of two from West Jordan, Utah.\\xa0 \\n\\xa0\\nKim spent much of her childhood living in Eugene, Oregon where running is as common as breathing.\\xa0 In her teens, she moved to Utah, where there is a large and very strong running community.\\xa0 Kim has always run off and on, but it was after she had her second daughter that her love of running became more serious.\\xa0 \\n\\xa0\\nIt started with a 20 minute run, and before she knew it, she found herself registering for her first marathon.\\xa0 She had never run a race before, ever.\\xa0 Her husband says she\\u2019s an all-or-nothing kind of girl, and this just proved him right.\\xa0 \\n\\xa0\\nKim finished her first marathon alive and well and even qualified for Boston.\\xa0 Since that day she has run nine marathons including Boston.\\xa0 She plans to run Boston again this April as well as the New York Marathon and the Utah Grand Slam which is a series that requires runners to complete four major Utah marathons over the course of six months.\\xa0 It\\u2019s that all-or-nothing part of her personality again.\\n\\xa0\\nWhile Kim loves to call herself a runner, she is many other things.\\xa0 She is a mother of two beautiful little girls, the wife of a curly, red-haired bowling math whiz, a daughter, a sister, and a friend.\\xa0 \\n\\xa0\\nKim is a fitness instructor at a local gym where the members inspire her and bring her joy on a daily basis.\\xa0 She is a jig-saw puzzle addict.\\xa0 She was a high school English teacher in a former life.\\xa0 Her astrological sign is Cancer, although she has no earthly idea what that means, but apparently is it important to some.\\xa0 \\n\\xa0\\nShe is a cyclist and spends as much time as she can in the beautiful Wasatch Mountain range riding with her friends in the summer.\\xa0 She is a voracious reader of historical fiction.\\xa0 She is an organizer and master list-maker.\\xa0 She is a dancer, but only when she\\u2019s playing Dance Dance Revolution with her girls, so that probably doesn\\u2019t count. \\n\\xa0\\nIt was a gym member who attends Kim\\u2019s spin classes who asked her to contribute to the \\u201cReasons to Run\\u201d blog and it\\u2019s been a joy for Kim to be able to combine the two joys of her life: running and writing.\\xa0 Her blog isn\\u2019t necessarily always about running, specifically, but it\\u2019s always the inspiration.\\xa0 She hopes her honest thoughts about running, exercise, balance and finding joy in the simplicity of life will inspire others to get up and move and realize that it\\u2019s never too late to change for the better.\\xa0 It\\u2019s her mission to tell people that life is good and it\\u2019s worth living well.\\xa0 Running makes it all the sweeter.\\n\\xa0\\nI am honored that Kim would agree not only to let me re-publish her article from the Reasons to Run Blog, but that she took the time to read it for us herself\\u2026.and did so on very short notice.\\xa0 I present for you an amazing fellow runner, Kim Kowart, with her essay on a topic we can all relate to: Pre-Race Jitters.\\n\\xa0\\n\\nLINKS:\\n \\n \\xa0\\nPlease support The Mojo Loco Fund: \\n\\xa0\\nThe song \\u201cBound\\u201d was by Black Lab off their new album: Two Strangers. http://blacklabworld.com'