The race is the largest 5K in Houston, and it's expected to draw 20,000 participants this year. About 15,000 people participated last year, including 1,000 breast cancer survivors. Seventy-five percent of the money is spent on local breast cancer services and research. The race includes a one-mile coed family walk, but the 5K race and walk are for women only. That's because organizers want to highlight women, according to Amy Selig, executive director of the Houston Komen affiliate.
Men also get breast cancer, but it is rare.
Some affiliates across the country now hold coed races, and the Houston chapter may switch someday, too, she said. Hinaman, now 31, is looking forward to this year's race, but she hasn't forgotten the fear with which she approached her first race after the surgery. Still, she conceded, it has been difficult to consider herself lucky. I didn't think having breast cancer was lucky. But very lucky, she said, to have a supportive husband, Alan Hinaman.