Day 92. Wisconsin weather remains crazy. After a tiring (see: awesome) weekend, I was ready to get back into a normal pattern again and have a good running week. Of course, waking up Monday morning to an inch + of snow on the ground made me a little angry and very confused. Waking up Tuesday morning to the same thing just made me angry… Of course, the snow was gone by noon on both days but running in the rain and cold wasn’t really what I was hoping for. Nonetheless, I see the sun today and apparently we are getting warm weather pretty quick; so I will give Mother Nature only a glancing dirty look for the nonsense she threw at us this week.
I had to cut down on Sunday’s longer run, I wasn’t feeling all that great… so it didn’t make sense to compound that. I have a 15 mile spot this Saturday which may have to get pushed back to Sunday because Saturday is a full day for me. I just found out we are going to have GU gels on the San Diego course, and I found some of those at “The Running Co.” the other day so I get to try those out this weekend. Running gel is basically a gel packet of vitamin A & C, potassium, and a garbage load of carbs stuffed into a 2 oz, 100 calorie packet. You swallow this down with water every hour or so when you are running and it is an energy boost. Gel/runners = spinach/popeye.
The fund raising, while not over, has met it’s mark. The number given to us to try and reach at the beginning of the season was $3,900. I just made my own spot $4,000 just to make it a prettier number. But with the money raised from the benefit show last Friday… we went over the $3,900 mark which was the assigned goal. Thank you everyone x100. With that said, the fund raising doesn’t stop until May 30th or so, so if you are still able to give anything… please consider it, it is a great cause.
Have a good week. Pray for the Brewers… we need a turnaround.
Fundraising update: $3,953 of $3,900 raised. 101.4% raised.
Training update: 92 of 127 days complete. 72.4% complete.
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