First I am gonna say THANK YOU for everyone who donated and for those that answered the call to my "challenge week." The results were amazing. More on that in a bit.
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| THANK YOU for all your support! |
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So for a quick recap on the training from last week:
Health
Continues to be good (knock on wood) though I do need to keep up with my stretching! Hard to find the time to do everything.
Training
I ran 3 times this past week
1) a 5 mile run at a 9:32 pace as I was recovering from the half marathon last Sunday
2) a 9 mile run at an 8:17 pace, as I was feeling good and wanted to push the speed
3) a HILLY 19 mile run at the Waterfall Glen Forest preserve in Dupage where Chicago runners go to train on hills since I want to be ready for NYC which I hear is hilly. It's tough. My pace was 11:24, mostly walking the last 4 miles. Ugg....
I also swam twice last week, including a new personal distance record of 2,100 yards on day, 900 the second day, and I found a little time for my PT exercises a couple times. I hope this week goes as well.
Fundraising
So the big news is the challenge week as a HUGE success! I may all my daily goals for the first part of the week, and just tons of support at the end of the week. Together we raised over $3,000 last week, and I'm now just hundreds short of my goal of raising $6,000 dollars for the American Cancer Society.
Just amazing, THANK YOU ALL!
I actually made a little video to thank all of my supporters so far, it's about 17 minutes long, check it out if you have the time. I hope I didn't forget anyone.
If you can't watch the video, here's the quick recap:
I love graphs, so here's a snapshot of my total fundraising amount by week.
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| Challenge Week raised over $3,000! That's amazing!!! |
I'm not done yet though, there are still 48 days till the marathon and I want to raise as much as I possibly can - so I still need your help.
Marathon training is hard. It's physically demanding, mentally challenging, and it takes a lot of time. For my 19 mile run on Sunday I had to drive 30 miles out to the course, then warmup, run, cooldown and stretch, drive back home, shower, etc. It was almost the full day. I can't continue to take that much time away from my family.
This may be the last marathon I run, and it may be the only time I raise money for a charity. Fundraising is hard - everyone has been so supportive but I can't expect everyone to keep giving me money.
So this may be the one and only time I do this. So I want it to be EPIC!
Be epic with me! Let's kick cancer's ass together!
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