With the start of a new month, it feels like a good time to provide a more detailed recap of my training and fundraising progress to date. Even though I'd been doing a little bit of running, here and there, from mid-March to mid-May, I look at the first team training run on May 15th as the "official" start of my training for the Twin Cities and Dublin marathons.
That was seven weeks ago. I've run either three or four days a week, every week, including long weekend runs of 4, 6, 6, 8, 10, 12, 8, and 10 miles. Grand total for my training runs, so far, is just over 130 miles. Cross-training has been mostly spin classes, sometimes just an exercise bike, consistently every Tuesday and Friday for each of the past seven weeks.
Combined, then, I've trained on 41 out of 51 days through the Fourth of July. Never less than five days per week.
As great as I've felt about the training -- and it has, truly, consisted of many more good days than bad -- I'm even happier about my preliminary fundraising results. Including a few checks that still need to be processed, approximately $7,700 in donations have been made by almost sixty different donors. That total already exceeds the amount I'd needed to raise simply to participate in both marathons this October! And there are still four full months left until Dublin. I hope to be able to continue to generate interest and publicity through the summer and fall to reach my personal goal of $40,000 of donations to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
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