Pharmacology in the Wild

"Team work will make the dream work!" Three quarters of the way through the race, and this had become my mantra. This accompanied "Let's run to that light pole ahead and then we can take a walking break" as my most used phrases that morning. It was almost 9 on a warm, February, Saturday morning and, like most of my Tuesday and Thursday afternoons, I was running with kids. This time was different though. This was the 504k, Youth Run NOLA's own running event! With only a little bit of the race left to go, but the finish line still out of sight, I was running low on motivational platitudes to inspire my kids on. To their credit though, 5k is no small feat for athletic adults, and can be especially daunting for a 4th grader. They were fighting, but the will to keep running was in short supply. Then, there it was. A big blue arch at the end of our sight marking the end of the race. Just like that, the race was on again. The kids all caught a second wind, and