Ten Thousand

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What a great day! Earlier this afternoon -- only two days after I'd sent out an update on my training and fundraising progress -- several additional donations came through to kick my total over $10,000. Feels great to hit that early milestone. I'm really looking forward to additional fundraising efforts over the next four months.

Training today was another track workout at Minnehaha Academy. Had a good conversation with Stephanie again -- we were paired up for the relay/pace activity, which really meant that we didn't end up running together at all. Go figure. For the laps around the track I ran with Crystal and Tanya. We decided that our paces are pretty similar, so I'll at least have somebody to run with at both marathons.

Today's mileage: about 5 miles, in 50 some minutes.
Total mileage: 141 miles.

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$10K! GREAT JOB with your follow-up and on hitting this mark so early in your fundraising efforts! I am TRULY PROUD of EVERYTHING you are doing for the LLS. The only words that come to mind are SIMPLY AMAZING! That you are. CONGRATS!

Love,
Melissa

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A Few Notes

robert (now and then)
(hover to see RKB in 1990)
After running two marathons in October 2010 with Team in Training, I've decided to "slack off" with just the one marathon in 2011.

This year will be in memory of Siona Shah, an amazing young girl who spent the final third of her too-short life battling leukemia with courage, grace, humility, and smiles.

It will also be in memory of my step-grandmother, Ruth, who passed away on June 15th after a recurrence of Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma.

I'd originally started using this site to tell my story -- roughly eight months of treatment in 1990, as well as the impact leukemia had on me in the years that followed. Much of that story is still available through the "Table of Contents" below (starting with my initial diagnosis while I was studying in England).

 - Robert K. Brown
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