I tripped and registered for the Strip at Night already! What?!? That’s right, another year of fundraising and running and rockin’ out on the strip!
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A snapshot of my Team Challenge family. While I miss a lot of practices, I still love every one of these people–my team mates, their family, our supporters, and our honorary team member. Together we raised over $170,000 for a cues that’s near and dear to my heart.
This update is long overdue. I’ll start the story quick. I ran the Disney Dine & Wine Half with the flu. Don’t do that. Don’t ever do that. I survived. It didn’t feel good. I was sick for, oh, three weeks….and that brings us to Las Vegas.
I’ll write a full recap later, but this was another slow finish–3:08. I expected it. I haven’t run hardly at all since the Dine & Wine. It took me a while to get over the flu, and it was raining hard lately in Seattle. The last thing I wanted was to get sick again or sicker. I didn’t so much as taper as just not run at all. I did do a couple short 2-3 mile runs and the Turkey Trot (which I was definitely still sick for). My sore throat is gone finally, having disappeared around Thursday, so I’m going to step it up and train hard for the Tinkerbell Half. I will come in under 3! It might be 2:59.
In short, Vegas was great. I was slow but felt great. Took plenty of time out to take photos this time!
…I leave for Vegas tomorrow afternoon. I’ll be spending a couple days in Zion National Park with KH before meeting the team in Vegas. Having been slow fully recovering from the flu, I haven’t been training much, so I don’t expect a major time improvement. I have about six weeks between the Las Vegas half and the Tinkerbell half, so I’ll kick up training so I can kick some butt at Disneyland. Six weeks should be plenty of time…
I am just $75 away from raising $10,000 for the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation through my Team Challenge fundraising and training! That’s amazing. It’s also just 3 $25 donations or 6 $13.10 donations (that’s just $1 for every mile I’ll be running in Vegas!)
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My mom’s guts thank you!!!!
