Great Day

Well, the run kinda sucked. 

Went out for about 12.5 miles with the CharityTeams group yesterday, pretty light day considering everyone else was doing about 14-18. My legs felt great, feet felt ok, everything below the waist was doing fine. But I'm also in the middle of a nice head/chest cold, so that was fun. I yearned for red lights at major intersections so I could cough up wads of phlegm in relative peace. You know you're looking good when complete strangers stop you on the street to ask if you're ok. 

But anyways, I got through it, took a 2 hour nap right after, and woke up to some awesome news: my fundraising total nearly tripled as I slept. I started the day with $635, ended with $1,735 thanks mainly to one EXTREMELY generous (and anonymous!) donor.

I'm now over 1/3 of the way to my goal within 1 day of creating this blog, and the support has already been overwhelming. As my Aunt pointed out to me yesterday, if everyone I've invited on Facebook donated $25, I would surpass my goal easily. Now that I'm over $1,000 closer, I've figured out that if everyone donated half of that, $12.50, I would STILL reach my goal, with some to spare. 

Thank you so much to everyone who's donated, left messages, comments, texted, and everything! It's great to know people are listening, reading, and best of all caring. It makes the running part of things so much easier. That 12 mile run was one of my worst since I started training back in September. In hindsight though, it was easy. If I feel that bad for every run between now and the marathon, I'll take it for the great feeling of knowing other people are there watching, reading, and supporting me while I do it. 

Thanks again everyone!