I started running in March 2009 and ran my first race, a 5K, in October 2009. In November 2009, my mother Pemle was diagnosed with lymphoma for the fourth time. She was first diagnosed in 1995 and has been periodically beating back the monster ever since. Wanting to take the proverbial lemons and make lemonade, I signed up with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's Team in Training in early December 2009 to run a half-marathon. The farthest I'd ever run before signing up was 4.5 miles.
In 189 posts, this blog chronicles my adventures in running and fundraising from December 2009 through June 2010. I raised $4,060 for leukemia and lymphoma research and ran my half-marathon in 2:19:21, so I succeeded beyond my wildest dreams on both counts. If you're thinking about signing up with Team in Training and wondering what the experience is like, this blog is for you.
Here are a few of my favorite posts:
- "Runners are masochists. Discuss." An early group run in December 2009 in hair-raisingly bad weather.
- "Dog bowl forecasting." Who needs the Weather Channel when you can learn what you need to know about the weather from the dogs' water bowl on the patio?
- "Click." Running at an indoor track with a little help from a lap counter and "The Eye of the Tiger."
- "Running on empty." A girl running on an empty stomach, ready to kill for a bag of M&Ms.
- "Promises worth keeping." A rumination on the four promises that form the backbone of Team in Training.
- "Ten! Zehn! Dyesat! Diez! Dix! Dziesiec! Dieci!" My first-ever ten-mile run.
- "The thinnest of wedges between happy and sad news." Running, good news about my mom, sad news about my common-law father-in-law...getting toward the end of training at this point.
- My extremely detailed half-marathon race day report, in two parts with lots of pictures: Part 1 and Part 2.
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