New running shoes! About to
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February 20, 2010

I have let this cold get the best of me for the last two weeks. No more, I'm ready to get serious about my marathon training. Today was our 2nd team training, the goal was 3 miles. Off I go...uh oh...lungs burning, left knee twinging, toes feeling numb...I must be close to finishing my three miles!!! Not so fast, I was only a quarter mile in. So I started to pace with the telephone poles, walk to the next pole, jog to the pole after that, walk to the next pole and so on. As I was walking/jogging and trying to ignore the various pains in my body I started to think back to San Francisco 2008 when I was cheering my cousins on for their first marathon. At the time I was really there to just cheer them on. I knew they were running to raise funds for a cure, I knew the emotional ties they had because of Brian's father Rich but I just didn't fully feel connected to the cause even though I was saddened by Rich's condition. I had even forgotten at the time that my own grandmother, Florence "Pete" Gulde had passed away from Leukemia. I've only been with this organization since February but it's hard not to get swept up into the excitement, energy and compassion that every single person who is associated with TNT exudes.

I'd really like to say thank you to those of you who have already donated towards this very worthy cause and shared names of their loved ones who have/are battling blood cancers. I'll think of them, along with Rich and Pete during my trainings, they will spur me on when I don't want to get the next telephone pole.

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