It's National Running Day...and I can't run yet after the stress fracture in my foot. But someone else reflected on why they run today and I thought I would do the same. It was August 15, 2008 when I received a call at 7:30 AM from the nurse at my doctor's office that I had Type II Diabetes and needed to come in that morning. I expected that I would be diagnosed at some point since I am overweight and have significant family history...but I didn't expect it at age 32. After the initial shock I decided that I needed to start getting some exercise. I started walking 20 minutes on the treadmill every few days...the treadmill that we bought in 2004 when we bought the house and had relatively little use since then. Then I started adding a little time. My undergrad roommate/best friend Kara told me that I should do a Halloween race with her called "Run Like Hell" - it was three miles long. I told her that I couldn't walk 3 miles and that I would finish l