Get Healthy Before Eeyore's

Seriously? Go to Eeyore's Birthday Party. It's the epitome of the Austin experience; we know people that are traveling down from other cities for this thing.

Before you do, though, you'll be in the neighborhood of another summer kick-off event, the Texas Roundup. (around the Capitol Grounds at 11th & Colorado)

The Texas Round-Up is a statewide effort to encourage Texans of all fitness levels to incorporate daily physical activity and healthy choices into their lives.

So here's the thing. Summer is rapidly approaching (i.e. as far as we're concerned, starts tomorrow). Do you really want to spend the long, hot days in the upcoming months moping and depressed about being unfit, unwilling to peel yourself away from the sticky and gluttonous embrace of www.austinist.com? For crying out loud, we're in Austin! Let's all go outside and move around a little, in the soak of the sun, no?

Ah. But where to start?

There is a health expo that opens Friday from 3PM-8PM and Saturday from 7AM-3PM.

At the Health Education Tent (13th & Colorado, only on Saturday), health experts will be on hand to answer questions and offer you free health tests: Body Fat Analysis, Glucose and Cholesterol Screening, and Immunizations (birth-18 years).

Come on. You owe us.

You owe us, big time.

See, we care about you, we really do, and we want you to be fit, healthy, and happy. (Since, who else, besides our dutiful readers will click on all the advertising links and send us large canvas bags filled with hundred dollar bills?)

Go take advantage of these screenings - get your baseline so when you take advice on exercise and nutrition, you can actually measure progress and see for yourself what works.

Then, just start and keep at it. This time, next year, when you get another screening, you'll be stunned by how far you've come.

You can register for a 10K run, up to the start time at 8AM Saturday.

If nothing else, running a 10K will make you sweaty and stinky like all the other hippies you'll meet later on in the day, over at Eeyore's. Yay!