It's Getting Hot in Here!

The temperature is RISING, my friends. Both outside and in FUNDRAISING! Check out my fundraising page to see the thermometer rising (literally!). Thanks to my wonderful parents and teammate, some significant progress can be seen. While we are much farther today than we were yesterday, we still have a ways to go. Don't consider this a job well done yet because it is FAR from complete. I'm $285 into this and have $1,715 to go. WHO'S WITH ME?!
Perhaps breaking this down into smaller increments will be less daunting. Let's give it a shot. June 17th is Recommitment Day where there needs to be $500 in my account. We are over halfway there (I say 'we' because by no means am I doing this by myself-- YOU are in it just as much as I am!) Spread the word to EVERYONE you can think of! The grocery store clerk, your dentist, your neighbor, your pen-pal in France... everyone! If we got 200 people to give ten bones, we'd be GOLDEN. If we get 1000 to give TWO DOLLARS, we're set.
Let's get this done!

After my pity party Saturday, I kinda said 'enough is enough'. Sunday turned out to be a really great day for many reasons, one of which is that I ran! I went to the gym with the intention of swimming, but was still in a small funk from the day before and saw the crazy crowded pool and gagged. I could not bring myself to body bump these strangers in a bacteria filled pit. So, I figured I'd gotten to the gym, it'd be a pity to waste the time and energy spent in getting there. So, I eyed the treadmills... and thought "what the hey." I climbed on, very wary of the beast and walked my warm-up-- I was ultra in tune with my blasted knee and so focused on stepping properly (I'm pigeon toed... and I think when I walk properly it feels better than when my toes are pointed in... just a theory).. so I was focused. I warmed up and stretched and started running. GLORY GLORY GLORY, just like the beginning of my first attempt, I was loving it. I'm amazed at how great it can feel to run on a stationary machine! At 00:01:14 my knee started to hurt again-- and I was ENRAGED. Not only was it a less than awesome weekend already, now I was regressing in the time it took for my knee to start hurting?! I said no. I got so angry that I pushed through. Yea it hurt, but come 5 minutes in, it was okay. I could feel it, no doubt, but it wasn't as excruciating as my first running attempt. That was exciting.. really exciting. I ended up going THREE MILES! Pre-injury I'd be ashamed at that distance and scold myself for wussing out just three miles in. But given the circumstances, three miles was a huge victory and I was elated. Honestly, I should have stopped at 2.5 because it did hurt a lot then and then progressed to excruciating by 2.85, but I hate leaving a mile unfinished... I was elated when I stepped off that treadmill (carefully). I hobbled over to stretch, then awkwardly biked home (the same route of dooring-- dangerous) then threw some frozen green beans on my knee that had blown up to the size of ...big again. Yea, it hurt, and yea it's kind of stiff today, but it makes me so happy that I could run that far without keeling over in pain. Regardless of that victory, though, I have a 10k race that will need to be finished for the triathlon-- and that will be after swimming and biking. So while my knee isn't ready for the race yet, yesterday makes me think it is well on its way, and that is a HUGE relief.

DONATE DONATE DONATE!!! Recommitment is JUNE 17th! THE TIME IS NOW, MY FRIENDS, don't delay, let's cure blood cancers TODAY!