Jacob Fannin

Cool news. Starting next Sunday, June 7th, I am going to be playing every Sunday night at the Harmony Cafe in downtown Appleton. If you haven’t been down to their new location yet, it is pretty neat, they did a great job. I’ll be playing 6-8 every Sunday to close the place down, so hopefully we can make Sunday nights a little more relaxing in downtown Appleton! I’ll remind you later next week, but I would love to see you out there! All ages welcome!

The ghost from the John Legend video came back. I like him. I think I’ll name him Jasper. He can stick around I think.

Day 120. Nine days until I fly out to San Diego. I’m ready. At this point I’m just trying my best not to fall and break anything in the next week. A few weekends ago I ran just over 20 miles and it was pretty encouraging. Not necessarily the time but how I felt throughout the whole run and the fact that I ran the second 10 miles faster than I ran the first 10 miles. I still have a week + left of training… but I’m going to take it easy. I’ll run tomorrow and I’ll go for my last “long” run (10 miles) on Saturday morning, and then probably jog Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday before taking it easy for the big day. I’ve also decided that whatever time it takes me to run this marathon is a secondary concern to having fun running it. We got the route today in the mail and we are running by some pretty scenic things: SeaWorld, The San Diego Zoo, Petco Park, downtown, etc… So I am going to enjoy running the race rather than running to try to beat some time. Tonight I am off for our Team in Training “send off” dinner. Getting my racing gear among other things.

This entire four or so month training and fundraising period has been a pretty cool experience. I’m not going to get into too much right now and it worries me a little that I’m already becoming reflective when I still have the single hardest day ahead of me yet. Still, I am hoping to post some sort of journal entry before I fly out next Friday… and then I’ll definitely have a post-marathon wrap up journal before I archive this entire thing when I get back.

Thanks for reading.

Fundraising update: $3,953 of $3,900 raised. (101% raised)
Training update: 120 of 129 days complete. (93% complete)

Day 103. So last Saturday I got up real early and was down on the east side of College Ave. by about 7 AM. My running coach and a few TNT teammates were there and we set off to run on what ended up being a 16 mile run. I had read that it was suppose to rain a little that morning… so I had brought along a sweatshirt, because I didn’t feel like being stuck to a wet t-shirt while I ran. Well, turns out the “little rain” turned into about a five minute downpour in the streets of Neenah/Menasha/Kaukana. Still, it wasn’t the rain that bothered me from there on out (the rain actually felt nice); it was the fact that my sweatshirt now weighed 15 pounds. *sigh* It was a good run for me though up until the very end when my legs decided 14.5 miles were enough and threw an absolute hissy fit over the last mile and a half. I kept trying to tell them that they better shape up, because if they were not happy over 16 miles then they were in for a real bad surprise in about a month. They didn’t calm down though so I knocked them out with some biofreeze that a teammate had brought along. They behaved adequately the rest of the day. Hopefully just the threat of biofreeze next week is enough to keep them in line. I have to run 22 miles next weekend, which is the longest run I have scheduled before the actual marathon. I think more than just my legs will be hurting after that one.

Had a little fun with some self-promotion. Adobe Premier (my editing software) has a few cool features that I am only now finding