50 miles!

This has been an inspiring week in many ways. It started with my fundraising... This Monday I kicked off some fundraisers at my school. By Friday the staff and students had helped Katy and I raise over $200 for our TNT funds. On top of that my 2nd and 6th grade classes started the "pennies for patients" penny drive to go to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. They raised $305 in 1 week! What an amazing group of people I am surrounded by everyday.
Then I got an e-mail from my mentor about a woman who has been diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease (a form of blood cancer) who had decided that she was going to run 200 miles IN A WEEK. She did! That means her average mileage a day was 28.8 miles (yep that is more than a marathon a day for a whole week). If she can do that, what can the rest of us do? A LOT.
The icing on the cake for me this week was a new milestone. I completed my first 50 miles of training! Keep checking on me though because I have set a new goal for myself to help me keep on track. During the week I am going to run double the mileage that I run on Saturday. SO this week I will run 16 miles before Saturday. Keep sending those strong and positive thoughts my way.

10 K

Just a quick note. Things are going well. On Saturday we were running in Napa again (we found the hills) and it was gorgeous. I ran 6 miles which I thought about later on that evening... that is a 10 K run!!!
So keep me in your thoughts and thank you to ALL of you for donating and supporting me in thia adventure.