Week 12

Weeks to Race Day: 7 Weeks - Oh my God only 48 days!!!

Miles for the week: 29 (Long run 16 miles!)

Quote of the Week: "The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start." -John Bingham.

Training this week proved to be slightly difficult. I had a sinus infection that put a small detour in my training. Here's a funny little story to go along with it: I was running my 4 mile route around Newburgh Lake on Wednesday - that is if you could call it running. It was more like run a little walk a little because I couldn't breathe. I had come to the end of my rope and was just dragging ass home (cursing at myself on the inside for being so stupid to go out and run feeling as crappy as I did). As I was coming to the home stretch down Ann Arbor Rd. I saw what was an "oasis" in the middle my own personal "desert"....my mom's car at the local grocery store!!! I walked into the store (sweaty and looking as BEAUTIFUL as ever - getting funny looks from the customers and workers, to find my mom for a ride home. Thanks for looking out for me on that one Jeff - I needed a ride home that day more than ever!

Here's a little fun fact about what your donations help achieve:

Since the first funding in 1954, the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society has awarded more than $600 million in research grants. It was through these dollars raised and the research that was done that scientists were able to discover the life saving drug - Gleevac.

Since it’s introduction, approximately 28,000 people have been diagnosed with chronic phase CML- before Gleevac, approximately 6,600 would have died within 5 years; with Gleevac, that number has been reduced to approximately 980- that’s 5,620 lives saved and counting!!

Because the drug is available in pill form and singles out cancer cells, a patient can manage CML while living with a high quality of life.

Without support of people like you, the discovery of drugs like Gleevac would not be possible. But Gleevac is just one drug, and we still have work to do. Thank you for all of your hard work - you’re doing something wonderful.

My words of advice - stemming from the quote of the week...If there is something you've been thinking about doing - just get up and do it. I thought about doing this last year and never worked up the courage to join. Now, finally joining this year it has been one of the best decisions of my life. It was scary at first - but has been so rewarding on so so many levels. So keep this quote in mind and perhaps you will get the opportunity to start something new! "The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start."

Thank you all again! Your generosity is overwhelming!

Until next week...