{"id":324,"date":"2011-11-05T20:04:23","date_gmt":"2011-11-06T00:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calliegolden.org\/blog\/?p=324"},"modified":"2011-11-05T20:04:23","modified_gmt":"2011-11-06T00:04:23","slug":"strength-of-a-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calliegolden.org\/blog\/strength-of-a-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Strength of a team"},"content":{"rendered":"

Six months ago I thought I would be running a marathon on Nov. 19. Three months ago I realized a half-marathon was more likely. Now it\u2019s clear that I will be walking much of the 5K as Team Callie<\/a> takes part in the North Carolina Marathon to raise money for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) research two weeks from today.<\/p>\n

These shrinking goals have fed a growing sense of failure. I\u2019ve wondered why it\u2019s so hard to go out and run a few times a week. Can\u2019t I do that for Callie and the thousands of other children who live with SMA?<\/p>\n

It sounds easy enough. But I have not done it. There are reasons. The physical and emotional energy Callie\u2019s care requires takes its toll on our family every day. We\u2019ve been overwhelmed. We\u2019ve been sad. Callie\u2019s not a baby anymore. It\u2019s more obvious to others — and now to her — that she\u2019s different. She\u2019s still losing abilities. Now she\u2019s losing her head control. We\u2019re always tired.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s life, and I should be able to deal with it and make this happen, I\u2019ve thought as each day has passed without me making it happen.<\/p>\n

Christy and I were talking about this the other day and we realized something incredible. As my sense of personal failure has grown, Team Callie has grown from 1 person to about 30 people. Team members have been training for months and raising money for SMA research \u2013 more than we could ever hope to raise alone. Because of the team, more people know about SMA today than yesterday.<\/p>\n

I wish I had done better, but Team Callie\u2019s accomplishments have helped me remember that this project never was about me, whether I run 2 miles, 13.1 or 26.2. It\u2019s about Callie and everyone else with SMA. It\u2019s about the support that comes from family, friends and anyone else who\u2019s willing to walk, jog, run and ask for money for a cause. Thank you, Team Callie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Six months ago I thought I would be running a marathon on Nov. 19. Three months ago I realized a half-marathon was more likely. Now it\u2019s clear that I will be walking much of the 5K as Team Callie takes part in the North Carolina Marathon to raise money for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) research […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calliegolden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calliegolden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calliegolden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calliegolden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calliegolden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.calliegolden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327,"href":"https:\/\/www.calliegolden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions\/327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calliegolden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calliegolden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calliegolden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}