new plans

My plans for this week/weekend are completely in disarray.

First, I was having some pain this week, so I skipped my 8 and 4.5 milers Wed/Thurs, thinking I'd be walking 60 miles and needed to treat my body well.

Then, the 3-day walk was changed to a 1-day due to the ongoing poor weather in the area. My teammates definitely trained better than I did, and are considering walking San Diego instead. While we can still walk Sunday's 15 miles, we are missing out on the whole experience (which my blogger teammate greatly summarized).

I am a bit torn about what to do tomorrow. Friday I ended up working from home and doing the 4.5 mile run, and today I went to rugby practice and shopped and am currently sitting on the couch watching tv. Do I do my 8 mile run tomorrow in lieu of walking 15? Its supposed to be 42 and an 95% chance of rain. It rained about half of today, including a steady downpour for practice, and frankly, while moving keeps you warm if you're properly dressed, it does not keep you dry. And wet feet are cold feet. So perhaps then you're not actually warm...And while I KNOW cold does not MAKE you sick, I have some reservations about doing that given my life-commitments and how I sincerely cannot afford to get sick!

I wish the weather had cooperated and not given me these crummy options. I feel like a disappointment to all of my generous donors if I don't walk. Then again, the 3-day site is pretty adamant about the goal of the event being fund-raising...and that we did!

Onward!

What a busy two weekends coming up...

19% to go to goal!! Click to donate!

And

2009 Women's Rugby Championships!















That's 2 nights of camping and 60ish miles of walking (in 50 degree highs and probably rain!) over three days...
Then a week later, a 6 hr drive, two BIG games, and hopefully planning for the finals!

3 for 6

I fancy myself a runner. I am not particularly fast, but I've done OK at long distances. My half PR is 1:52 and change, and I've done two full marathons slightly under 4:30, which I think is respectable for a "casual" runner.

But then I broke my foot in July 2008. By the time I was out of the boot and cleared, it was our wedding, then rugby season, then winter...I ran on and off, and somehow did two half marathons on very minimal training (both run/walked with Princess Charming around 2:30). Then after the crush of spring classes & rugby, I started training for the Philly Distance Run. And promptly broke my foot, slightly, again. Scratch that.

But fast forward. Healed, I think, again. Rugby is in full swing, school is in full swing, and I have, um, a job. But because I am insane, I am also training for the Philadelphia Half Marathon.

I just finished week 6. This is the third week of 6 I've completed my mileage. The other 3 I was missing at least one run (one week was a tournament, one week I was sick, and one week I was just lazy).

Weekly Distances
10/5/2009 — 10/11/2009:	17.0 Mi	2:42:39
9/28/2009 — 10/4/2009:	12.1 Mi	1:54:49
9/21/2009 — 9/27/2009:	14.5 Mi	2:16:03
9/14/2009 — 9/20/2009:	10.6 Mi	1:39:56
9/7/2009 — 9/13/2009:	6.0 Mi	55:08
8/31/2009 — 9/6/2009:	11.7 Mi	1:46:37

So for the next 6 weeks, I need to develop some discipline and be sure to get all 4 runs/week in, rain, dark, rugby or 3-day walk!

Due to my bad planning and backloading runs this past week, that means I will not have a rest day for 12 straight days (oops). Monday-Thurs will need to be runs this week, including a Wednesday long run of 8 miles, to accommodate the 45 miles of walking at the 3day walk this weekend! For full disclosure though, I'll probably swap in some interval training for part of my short run mileage this week - it IS peak rugby season after all, and intervals are so much more fun than 4.5 miles straight!

in the home stretch

The 3 Day Walk for Breast Cancer is next weekend! I'm working with my team to plan our packing list and travel. Lots to figure out - clothes for 3 days + nights in the tent, blister prevention, evening activities, what to do about school work when I can't use my computer for a whole weekend (ok, this isn't a huge issue - I rarely do school work on the weekend)...

And $700 more to raise! I'm a 71% of my goal!

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one month to go

Our big 3 day walk is in a month! I unfortunately haven't been training as much as I should due to a foot fracture, cold, and the onset of classes and rugby, but I am still 100% sure it will be an awesome experience! It will be an honor to participate in this event in honor of my mom (in remission for 7 (I think) years), my friend MR's mom (fighting again), and all of the other women out there with the disease.

I'm at 65% of my fund-raising goal. Want to chip in $23 (1% of my total goal?) or $60 ($1/mile we're walking) or some other amount? Click the widget below!

The 3Day

I'm just about to the half-way point on my fundraising! I got a fabulous donation last week that has kicked me back in gear. While I've been hurt most of the summer and training as been limited, I'm starting to get excited again for this experience.

Want to contribute to the fight against Breast Cancer? Click the handy Widget just below!

21%

I've raise 21% of my minimum ($2300) for the breast cancer 3 day this October (see side bar). I've kind of spammed my friends (who are mostly poor and/or house buying and/or wedding planning), but not the family so much, so I'm hoping to get more donations when I do a mailing next month. I'm super excited that friends have been donating though, and am especially grateful to the couple of people I've never even met who've contributed!! (love!) I'd *really* prefer to avoid a having to solicit local businesses to put a change can or similar out! I am thinking about having a BBQ this summer and inviting my neighbors (well, the 2 or 3 I know, and putting invite cards (hi vista.print?) in others' mailboxes and putting a donation box out there. We'd supply burgers etc..would that be weird? Or profitable? I'm not sure.