Jacob Fannin

So it took me about four full days of learning and relearning the lyrics to get all of these down… and even then I stumbled a time or two when I was recording this. Still a great song and a lot of fun to sing. A little hard finding places to breathe though I hope you like it! You should leave comments on my YouTube channel! It is only a step or two to get an account and if you subscribe you will be notified whenever I post a new video. Have a good week!

Day 83. I had these big plans to run back home to my parent’s house this past Saturday, but to do that I knew I was going to have to buy some kind of “belt” that could hold both water and some gel packs… and I just didn’t have the time to do it at the end of last week. It is a little over 12.5 miles from my door to theirs, so that run is going to happen… possibly this next Sunday? But instead of running home, I ended up running 15 miles in circles around my neighborhood. I didn’t exactly run them consecutively; I ran 5 miles, took a 10 minute break to stretch… then repeated that two more times. My splits for the three runs were 47, 42, and 46 minutes… at or around 9 minutes a mile… which is where I think I want to be once race day hits. I’ve read the average time for men to run marathons is 4 hours 32 minutes… and a 9 minute pace would put me just under 4 hours for the race… which would be great. A lot of people have been asking me what I would consider a successful time… and I have always said that I just want to finish… which is true. But I guess the three tiers of “success” for me come race day are going to be 1) Finish 2) Beat the average time for men (4 HR 32 MIN) and 3) Come in under 4 hours. I would be content with just the first, happy with the second, and ecstatic with the 3rd. *shrugs*

I’m playing at “The Bar” this Friday night, which is looking like it’s going to be a great night. My cousins have been awesome in setting it up and promoting it. There is going to be a $3 cover at the door and all of the money is going to LLS to help me hit my fund raising goal… which is inching closer and closer to the $4,000 mark and my goal. It’s going to be a fun night, you all should stop on out.

Fundraising update: $3,159 of $3,900 raised. 81.0% raised.
Training update: 83 of 127 days complete. 65.4% complete.

If you want to read my full marathon journal… go here: http:www.jacobfannin.com/team-in-training.

Day 75. Absolutely crazy week in an absolutely good way. I got in a full week of running and the 8 miles yesterday were strong, which is a nice change from “struggling to finish” that I have been doing a lot of as of late. I am excited for this Saturday, because I have a 14 mile run that will give me a good indication of where I am in my training. Hopefully I am still excited after Saturday!

April 1st was awesome. I woke up to 17 donations in my inbox and was absolutely confused. I opened the first one (from my older brother Nick) and just figured that TNT accidentally duplicated the email and sent it to me 16 more times. The next donation was from my nephew Dominic (amazing considering he is 6 1/2 months old) … and then I realized that these were 17 unique donations. So then it took me about 12 seconds to realize someone must have said something to someone and there was a mass email somewhere. I called home and got the runaround from my sister, who just laughed and told me to enjoy the day…

24 hours and roughly 42 donations later… my donation total had jumped a little more than $1,600… more than doubled what it had started the day at. Thank you to everyone who donated thus far and on that day. It was a lot of fun checking the website throughout that day watching the total rise and a lot of people are going to benefit because of it. Thank you. I am also 98% sure who I am to thank for sending the emails out to everyone to make this happen and given our Ron Paul history… I’m assuming the term “MoneyBomb” was used in there somewhere. At some point I will compile a list of people who have donated thus far, and post it on here; but for those interested you can go to the link above to my TNT website and look at the sidebar.

It was a good week, thank you. Enjoy the start of the baseball season! Go Crew!

Fundraising update: $3,024 of $3,900 raised. 77.5% raised.
Training update: 75 of 127 days complete. 59.1% complete.

You can find the journal here: http://jacobfannin.com/team-in-training.

Also, here is a cover of Matchbox 20′s “3 AM” that I did a few days ago… Have a good week!

Hey… hopefully it isn’t a bad week. I’ll know tomorrow at about 3 o’clock after I run. Anyway, here is the link to the journal… http://jacobfannin.com/team-in-training/.

My sister asked me to play it. I listen to my sisters.

Brand new original song… conveniently called “St. Patrick’s Day” … posted to YouTube. Enjoy!

Hi. I added another entry to my marathon journal. You can find it here, marathon journal.

Here is the link to my Team in Training website. http://pages.teamintraining.org/wi/rnr09/jfannin

Read the journal!.. and if you had a minute to look at the site above, I’d appreciate it. Thank you!

Marathon journal updated. Link here. Bad week. I also did a cover of John Legend’s “If You’re Out There”… it’s a cool song.

What’s up everyone? Kind of late notice, but I’m going to be playing at the Copper Leaf Hotel tonight from 6-8. There is a silent auction that will be going on to benefit the Children’s Tumor Foundation.

It’s a wonderful cause and some pretty cool items are up for bid, so if you are able to stop on out and help out by bidding on something… good things will come to you!

Farmer’s Market this weekend. A new video should be up Friday morning. Have a day!