First of all, thanks to Aaren for her donation! She is now training for a triathlon (in MAUI!) with TNT! Go Aaren!
As I mentioned in my last post, I have been (more than) a little worried about my ankle. It started bugging me after the half marathon three weeks ago. So I haven't been doing much running lately, and have started looking for a physical therapist to see in order to figure out what I need to do to not hurt myself.
I was worried about my ankle today, so I did the 1/2 marathon workout instead of the whole marathon workout (8 instead of 14 miles). Wouldn't you know it - my ankle didn't bother me one bit. I spoke with the coaches and they assured me that even up until race day I can adapt what I do - I can walk if I need to or only do the half marathon if things get bad. So, my new plan is full speed ahead with training and fundraising, and we'll see what happens. In the mean time, I'm going to continue to take it easy and cross train, and maybe I'll try water jogging. Apparently you feel dumb but it's a good workout.
There is a reason all of this seemed urgent and worrisome over the past few days: Recommitment is coming up! On February 24th we are going to officially re-commit to raising all of our money and they register us for our events!
I've raised $1109.40 or 55% of my fundraising goal so far! And it's 73% of the minimum I have to raise! That's right, only $390.40 left before I am officially there. Which is really good, because the other part of recommitment is that you give TNT your credit card info and they will charge you the difference if you don't meet the minimum by the event date. So, it's a great motivator to finish the fundraising strong!
So here is my new fundraising angle: Please make a donation to Team in Training and the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society a) so together we can find a cure for blood cancers and b) so I am not on the hook for $390!
Click here to donate: http://pages.teamintraining.org/oswim/eugene12/rvarner
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