Before I get to the main point of this post, I wanted to let you guys know there is now a new way to enter the BIG Giveaway/Raffle! Now you can donate, and get something out of it =) Go HERE and order yourself or some friends a magazine subscription, cookie dough, or restaurant gift cards!  These are at a super discounted price then newsstands or even regular subscriptions and 40% goes to LLS and Ulman Cancer Fund!  They also have great combo deals (my fave…Runner’s World and Running Times Combo).  You can also renew a subscription through them.  Some its a win win, you automatically get something, you donate to two amazing causes, and you are entered into the raffle! Let me know if you have any questions!

So I’ve decided it would be fun to feature a member of the blog “family” once a week and title the posts “Runs in the Family”.  So keep an eye out, you will probably be featured sooner or later, because well let’s face it.  You all are awesome and deserving of recognition =)

To start things off I am going to introduce you all to Rick, aka MarathonMan (althought you all probably already know him). I’ve read his blog a bit here and there, but today I received a comment and A DONATION from him and started investigating his blog a little further.  Well BlogHers and Hims, this guy will crack you up.  You tells it as it is, is hilarious, and a dedicated runner! He will be adding the NYC Half to his list of accomplishments in exactly 29 days (according to his countdown, I’m not a stalker).  He also works with kid with learning disabilities and special needs and ran for Autism Speaks (another one of my favorite organizations) for the NYC Marathon!  As you may know, I am in school to become a special education teacher and currently work at a school strictly for children with special needs and they are some of my favorite people out there!  So go RICK!  Please keep entertaining us!

Lastly, I spent the majority of last night reading the latest Runner’s World cover to cover (I’m a slow reader, this took a while).  I ADORED the article about Kara Goucher.  She was my idol before reading this article but I learned so much about her and respect her so much more!  She has dealt with alot of set backs and has struggled a great deal with serious psychological “mind games” that made her believe she truly was not meant to run and would never be good enough or deserving to run against the best.  But hey, we all know girlfriend deserves to be racing with all the other greats (being a true great herself) and plus she is so freaking gorgeous!  I know, I know.  I have a serious girl crush on her.  I think she has an amazing strong but feminine physique, and a natural beauty about her, and her humbleness and honestly in that article really made me respect her as the true athlete she is.  GO KARA! and seirously…she and her running god husband are just so freaking adorable together =)

I also have one more thing to admit.  The Garmin bug is finally hitting me now that MARATHON (HOLY GOODNESS GRACIOUS DID I JUST SAY MARATHON) training has begun.  This is bad news.

Alright everyone, I’m off.  Thank you so much for all your Bondi Band orders!  Keep them coming! And thank you so much for letting all your readers know! You guys rock!

PS.  Thanks to Krizzy Desgins, I now have a button!  Grab it. Please.

Don’t your just adore that song?  In case you don’t know its Regina Spektor, “Folding Chair”.  I think I’m using it for my solo for our spring dance performance.  But anyway onto what I really wanted to say.  Remember that quote I posted a few days about from Adrienne Wald?  In case you don’t remember she said, “It’s a joke to run a marathon by walking every other mile or by finishing in six, seven, eight hours.  It used to be that running a marathon was worth something- there used to be a pride saying that you ran a marathon.  Now it’s, ‘How low is the bar?’”.

Well today I got the new Runner’s World (with my running idol, Kara Goucher on the cover!) and look what I found.

“So many people crossing the finish line of a marathon look as happy as when I won.  They have tears in their eyes.  This sport is full of winners.”-Gary Muhrcke, champion of the inaugural New York City Marathon in 1970.”

I don’t know about you guys but I like this guys attitude ALOT better than Adrienne’s.  He seems to understand that for most people, finishing a marathon, or even a half marathon, 10K, or 5K for that matter is a life changing event for most people.  Just completing without giving up is winning for must people.  So kudos to you Gary!  I’m not trying to be judgmental here, but Adrienne has never won any kind of championship or marathon.  Oops.

How adorable is she!?

I haven’t read through the whole thing yet but so far I love this issue! They wrote a little goodbye to John “the Penguin” Bingham who after many many years with Runner’s World has decided to continue on.  I got to meet him and hear him talk at the Team in Training Inspiration Dinner and he was really awesome.  Check out his column HERE.

Also, I came across this a few pages in.  Seriously I’m getting so excited!

Ok so now for what’s really important…I have new items for the BIG Giveaway/Raffle

This really cute workout/yoga Bra Tank.  I can’t remember who makes it (it’s at my room at home and I am at school) but it’s an organic company that starts with an A.  It is a size large but pretty small for a large.  I think it’s more of a medium by normal standards.  I love the back of this tank and its cut very figure flattering!

3 “RUN” bumper stickers.  Great for the car, waterbottles, scrap books, etc.  Very cute and durable!

Ok guys I guess that’s it for now.  Keep the entries coming and don’t forget about the Bondi Bands Fundraiser!  100% of the proceeds go to Leukemia and Lymphoma Society!

Incase you forgot…

• Bondi Band Fundraiser! Okay guys here’s the deal.  My teammate Emily and I contacted Rebecca from BondiBands and set up a fundraiser for Leukemia and Lymphoma Society!  Now you can get your hands on awesome Bondi Bands and help save lives at the same time!

Here are the details…

1. The bands will be $8 including shipping so cheaper than ordering straight from the site!  However, if you order more than one, you will get a discount!  The more you buy, the bigger the discount!
2. Rebecca is sending us a big assortment of the more popular styles but head to www.bondiband.com and let me know which one/ones you want!  You can order any of the guys or girls headbands (solids, patterns, phrases, symbols, etc).
3. E-mail me at KatyeRunninAround @ gmail.com with your order! I will give you a total (including any discounts).  I will be able to except checks and paypal (I don’t want anyone mailing cash, too much risk)
4. I will ship your order =)

Any questions let me know!  Please advertise this fundraiser on your blogs!  EVERYTHING goes to Leukemia and Lymphoma Society!

Peace and so much LOVE to all!

PS. don’t you guys just love my awesome new header by Krizzy Designs!?

Hey there everyone!  Happy Wednesday!  The week is half way over and here is what I have liked and disliked thus far =)

Hott

• My BIG GIVEAWAY!  I know I know. But remember all entries/donations can be made in memory of/in honor of a loved one and I will add their name to my site!

“Katye has battled eating disorders for years and and thus had a very unhealthy relationship with exercise. In the past few years she’s taken her life back and become healthy and in return, has become an active member of Team In Training through Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. She started training and fundraising for her first race back in August and since then has completed her first half marathon, raised $19,000 for cancer research and is currently training/fundraising for two more races with TNT! She was chosen to act as a mentor for the San Diego Marathon (which will be her first marathon!). She has also signed on with Ulman Cancer Fund’s Team Fight for the Baltimore Marathon. This girl is on fire and refuses to stop until she does everything she can to stop cancer in it.”

by runreviews.com

• Bondi Band Fundraiser! Okay guys here’s the deal.  My teammate Emily and I contacted Rebecca from BondiBands and set up a fundraiser for Leukemia and Lymphoma Society!  Now you can get your hands on awesome Bondi Bands and help save lives at the same time!

Here are the details…

1. The bands will be $8 including shipping so cheaper than ordering straight from the site!  However, if you order more than one, you will get a discount!  The more you buy, the bigger the discount!
2. Rebecca is sending us a big assortment of the more popular styles but head to www.bondiband.com and let me know which one/ones you want!  You can order any of the guys or girls headbands (solids, patterns, phrases, symbols, etc).
3. E-mail me at KatyeRunninAround @ gmail.com with your order! I will give you a total (including any discounts).  I will be able to except checks and paypal (I don’t want anyone mailing cash, too much risk)
4. I will ship your order =)

Any questions let me know!  Please advertise this fundraiser on your blogs!  EVERYTHING goes to Leukemia and Lymphoma Society!

• Customink making a donation to Ulman Cancer Fund after I ordered shirts from them.  What an awesome company!
• Marlene’s Lift your Sole Giveaway!
• Lucy Active Wear’s awesome spring collection!  I really wish I had a store closer to me.  Their stuff is as adorable as it is functional.

HOW CUTE! just splurged on this one...

• Whoever nominated me as on of RunReviews.com’s “Most Influential Runners“.  I officially made their list!  Ah I’ve never been considered influential before!  So whoever nominated me, thank you!  I feel so blessed! Here is what they wrote about me…

“Katye has battled eating disorders for years and and thus had a very unhealthy relationship with exercise. In the past few years she’s taken her life back and become healthy and in return, has become an active member of Team In Training through Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. She started training and fundraising for her first race back in August and since then has completed her first half marathon, raised $19,000 for cancer research and is currently training/fundraising for two more races with TNT! She was chosen to act as a mentor for the San Diego Marathon (which will be her first marathon!). She has also signed on with Ulman Cancer Fund’s Team Fight for the Baltimore Marathon. This girl is on fire and refuses to stop until she does everything she can to stop cancer in it.”

• Bondi Band Fundraiser! Okay guys here’s the deal.  My teammate Emily and I contacted Rebecca from BondiBands and set up a fundraiser for Leukemia and Lymphoma Society!  Now you can get your hands on awesome Bondi Bands and help save lives at the same time!

Here are the details…

1. The bands will be $8 including shipping so cheaper than ordering straight from the site!  However, if you order more than one, you will get a discount!  The more you buy, the bigger the discount!
2. Rebecca is sending us a big assortment of the more popular styles but head to www.bondibands.com and let me know which one/ones you want!  You can order any of the guys or girls headbands (solids, patterns, phrases, symbols, etc).
3. E-mail me at KatyeRunninAround @ gmail.com with your order! I will give you a total (including any discounts).  I will be able to except checks and paypal (I don’t want anyone mailing cash, too much risk)
4. I will ship your order =)

Any questions let me know!  Please advertise this fundraiser on your blogs!  EVERYTHING goes to Leukemia and Lymphoma Society!

NOTT

• That nasty blister on the bottom of my foot.  Its starting to feel but man is it gross.
• All the people suffering in Haiti.  These people need help and will need it for a long time.  As their neighbors, we need to do whatever we can.
• The possibility that I will be jumping into the freezing Chesapeake Bay this weekend for the Polar Bear Plunge!  AHH this is definitly not hott…but I’m pretty excited!  It benefits Special Olympics which is very special to me, considering I’m in the Special Education Field
• All these Pro Life Coalitions demanding CBS pull the Tim Tebow superbowl ad for being Pro Life.  okay, I’m very strongly pro life but I also respect those who are pro choice.  But isn’t the point that we happen to have something called free speech in our country?  As far as I’m concerned, if you make a commercial supporting something, without putting other down and dimissing them, and you pay for it to air on TV, why should someone with an opposing opinion force you to remove it?  Unless CBS refuses to sell a commercial slot to pro choice groups, I don’t think there’s anything to get all hot and bothered about.

Well that’s enough rambling from me =) Hope you all are having a wonderful week! Oh and hey, notice anything different? =)

So last night I was reading through  the Jan/Feb issue of Running Times and was reading this really awesome article about how running has helped the genocide torn country of Rwanda rebuilt since the tragedies that occurred 15 years ago.  The article was great but at the end was a “quoteworthy” section which I don’t really understand because the quote had nothing to do with the article, but anyway it was from Adrienne Wald, the women’s cross country coach at the College of New Rochelle and she said,

“It’s a joke to run a marathon by walking every other mile or by finishing in six, seven, eight hours.  It used to be that running a marathon was worth something- there used to be a pride saying that you ran a marathon.  Now it’s, ‘How low is the bar?’”

I can’t say I agree with her.  I mean I understand that yes some people run marathons for a specific time goal, the place, BQ, sub 4 hours, etc. and that is great, but what’s wrong with the people who are just trying to accomplish something they didn’t think they could ever do.  I don’t care is you run, walk, skip, hop, roll, or crawl, at the end you still covered 26.2 miles continuously.  To say that people choosing to run/walk marathons are someone making the marathon world a joke or to say that just because not everyone is in it to finish in 5 hours or less means that completing a marathon no longer means anything is silly.  For me, running has been so much about proving to myself what my body and mind can accomplish when put together.  It’s not to have it “mean something” the others. Unless you’re Kenyan, you probably don’t enter marathons or distance races to win.  You enter to accomplish your own goal, to compete against yourself, and at the end of it to realize “Wow I just completed something most people will never even attempt”.  If that’s setting the bar too low, oh well.  Sorry Adrienne.  I just don’t think the fear of having to walk or the fear of finishing in too many hours should stop someone from their race dreams.

What do you guys think?  Is allowing people to walk/run marathons somehow lessening or diminishing the sport?

Oh, and the Bondi Bands fundraiser is officially underway!  I talked to Rebecca, the owner, and she is shipping a bunch out tomorrow so start looking out for more details! Great product for a great cause =)

In case you didn’t notice because I’ve barely mentioned it at all, I have a rather large giveaway raffle going on to benefit the Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Adults.  Well I got some awesome entries at first but well things seem to be dying down a bit.  So I’m going to up the stakes a bit.  There’s tons of great stuff that you can check out HERE with the potential of more items being added.  So in addition to earning entries by donating yourself, link me on your  blog and ENCOURAGE people to enter.  What’s in it for you?  For every three people you send over who enter (regardless of how much they donate) you will get 5 FREE ENTRIES!  ANDDDDDD I will send a free Bondi Band to ANYONE who donates $50 or above! So Please Please Please Please encourage people to enter.  This is a great organization dedicated to empowering young cancer fighters and survivors.  And make sure to tell them to tell me you sent them! Keep it coming people, keep it coming =)

Okay now unto far less important but somewhat entertaining issues.  I had my big 21st Birthday Party on Friday night.  Seriously it was an AMAZING night.  The party was my birthday present from my parents and all my amazing friends and some of my awesome cousins joined me in the VIP Lounge at a bar in Baltimore and we had a blast.  Some here’s the aftermath (warning, if you have a very weak stomach…maybe stop here)…

One of my highschool friends gave me that cup...matched my dress =)

Dancing with J (notice the shoes are long gone)

My amazing roommates decorated out living room

Cousins

My cake =)

So there’s my birthday after math.  Here’s just a few other things that made this weekend amazing!

Look what I found in Target! Sadly I didn't buy it...couldn't bring myself to waste the $20 on it...

This was the poster out of Runner's World a few issues ago...it is now hanging right next to my bed! I circled the two I'm signed up for, the San Diego Marathon and the Phila. Half!

Well that’s enough out of me for now.  In case you didn’t hear me the first 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times, ENTER MY GIVEAWAY!

Hey Guys! Another week down…hope yours was a great one =)  Before I begin I thought I would set the record straight (not because it bothers me at all, I’m so used to it, but people were asking).  My name is spellt KATYE.  Not Katie, Kayte, Katy, or Katey or any of the other ways normal people with my namesake spell it.  Before I was born, my dad decided he really wanted to name me Katie after his favorite aunt but my mom thought Katie was too plain and wanted me to have a unique name, hence my name is spellt Katye.  So again, I’m so used to it being spellt different and it doesn’t bother me, but no, I my signature isn’t a typo, my name is just weird. 

1,010 Challenge Update

Out awesome new logo designed by Christina! Thanks again!

• Amanda: 27.56
• Christina: 133
• Erica: 30
• Father Runner: 40
• Felice: 36.2
• Jamie: 19
• Joanna: 37.5
• Kathy: 69
• Kathy: 40
• Katye: 53
• Kim: 55
• Kristen: 29
• Libby: 19.81
• Melissa: 65
• Miguel: 102.4
• Mother Runner: 29
• Ross: 34.00
• Stephanie: 36.5
• Suzy: 67.48
• Tall Mom: 48
• Zoë: 87.49

Remember you can always check our progress at HERE

Giveaways

• Me!: My BIG Giveaway/Raffle for Ulman Cancer Fund-Some items have been added since last Sunday so check it out and spread the word! PLEASE KEEP THE ENTRIES COMING AND HELP SAVE LIVES!
• Heather’s Awesome Giveaway that inspired mine.  Thanks girl!
• Endurance Isn’t Only Physical: Ifitness
• Erica: Pocket Pedometer
• Tricia: Road ID
• Fitness for Foodies: Nike Giftcards
• Mom vs. Marathon: Yoga Bag
• Tall Mom: TuTu Giveaway

Some Other Cool Stuff to Check Out

• Melissa: Her firs race report!  Arizona Half
• April: Rock ‘N’ Roll Half Marathon race report
• Melissa: Love Your Neighbor Card Swap
• Lexi: First Half Race Report!
• A Girl and Her Blog: Manhattan Half Report

So that’s all for now, please keep me updated about your giveaways, races, big days, cool happenings, birthday, etc.  Happy Sunday Everyone!  Hope it was a FunDay!

Ok, not really.  But a few months ago I was asked to write up something about my Team in Training Experience for the National Newsletter which I posted HERE but I kinda of forgot about it.  Well this morning one of my friends I met through Virtual Team In Training (a national Team for TNT that is more online based; I’m training and fundraising for the Disney Princess Half with them) told me she was on the website today and found a pretty cool article HERE .  Kinda cool, huh?

Just as a quick reminder, I just ran the Disney Half Marathon January 9th, will be running The Disney Princess Half in March, and then onto the San Diego FULL! in June!  For all these events I did/am/will be fundraising for Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and you are more than welcome to donate to my efforts (just putting it out there).  My current website, for the Princess Half is HERE and once I reach my goal for that one, it will change over to a website for the San Diego fundraising.

I know this may be alot to as but I was wondering if you guys would be willing to go out on a limb and do my a favor.  I have been mailing and emailing alot of fundraising letters lately and I was wondering if I wrote something up if any of you guys would be willing to forward it on to friends and family who may be interested in contributing?

This is Amanda, one of my honored teammate (who I run and fundraise in honor of). She unfortunately lost her battle back in May and will never see her 16th birthday because of this murdered, cancer. Help me kick its ass for Amanda! Isn't she beautiful!

So on a less important note, yesterday I decided to go back to BodyPump, a class I absolutely love and was dedicated to for the past year but once I started running, I just didn’t want to do anything else.  Although I’m amazed how much stronger I’ve gotten from running (its amazing how much about running has nothing to do with your legs!), I did realize I should incorporate more strength training back into my schedule.  So yesterday I went and for some reason decided I could pick up right where I left off (about 4 months ago) weight wise…and well today I am feeling it.  Not in a painful way, more in a “wow I woke up some muscles” kind of way.  Me and my awesome friends went out dancing last night too.  So between BodyPump, a night/early morning of dancing, and my awesome stripper Lady Gaga heels my body is kinda mad at me today. It’s funny, I used to never ever wear heels.  I’m 5’10 to begin with and I used to hate being tall so the thought of adding height was crazy but I’m learning to love standing out more and more so bring on the heels!  I have long legs and I’m loving it!  I think running has had a big impact on this, long legs and running seem to go together =)

Which brings me to my last point.  As I explained before, the name of my blog is pretty much made up of the 4 things that helped me get through my eating disorders.  They will always have a special place in my heart, but Krizzy Designs is in the process of making me a rockin new header and it made me want a bit of a fresh start aka new blog name.  As I work to move away from “recovering” and more toward “recovered” I want something that reflects that. So what do you guys think…what should I rechristen my blog?  Things I want to consider, I’m tall. I’m blonde (in all senses of the word.  I’m very book smart, common sense however…sometimes takes a second thought), I am clumsy, I am a runner (kinda haha) and right now I’m learning to relax and enjoy life =).  I was thinking something like “Leggy Blonde With a Natural Talent for Running and Might as Well Be Kenyan”Long legs on the Loose”.  Hmm what do you guys think, please send me your ideas!  Hey, if you come up with something really cool that I use there will probably be a little something in it for you (*cough* remember the big bondi band fundraiser coming up *cough*).

What about you guys? Is there something about yourself that you used to hide but now you want to flaunt!? I’d love to know =)

Anyway as always you guys are the best, rock on, much love, the works.  Tonight is my big 21st Party downtown in Baltimore!  YAY!

Hott

• My TNT friend Emily and I are in the works of planning a big Bondi Band Fundraiser to benefit Leukemia and Lymphoma Society! For all of your who love Bondi Bands, or have always wanted to try one, this is your chance =) more details on this in the following week but keep a look out!
• Official Race pictures that I spent an arm and a leg on came in this morning =) Hey I know it’s dorky but it was my first race okay people
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  Looking like a hott mess (well I guess a freezing mess)!

  

  Running my heart out for Amanda, Bunny, Lindsey, and Stephanie

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Again my sign language. Peace and Love Baby!

• Christina making our awesome new Logo for 1,010 in 2010! Thanks Christina!

It’s made up of all us 1010ers blog names, headers, and comments to each other!  Thank you Christina!

• One of my best friends, D sent me a really awesome gift in the mail!  Its a ring that has the “A Journey to 1,00 miles” quotes just like my bangle!

Nott

• Me not proofreading before publishing my posts.  Sorry guys, I’m terrible at this and probably won’t get much better.  So hopefully you guys know what I mean.

SUPER NOTT!

• Heidi Montag!!!!  Seriously.  Okay I was at the gym today and ended up watching parts of Access Hollywood and Billy Bush (who I’m not a huge fan of) had an interview with her after her billion surgeries.  Seriously she infuriates me!  One, she looks TERRIBLE!  She looks so fake and just plain nasty.  She looked so much better before all this surgery.  She admitted in the interview that since the surgery she can’t smile (hence the creepy sneer in the picture to the left) or chew properly.  Ok, I understand some people get a little nipped and tucked here and there every once in a while but having 10+ surgeries by age 23!  Really!  People, she even admitted to having ton and muscle shaved off her back to give her a “curvier look”. Wow.
• Then of course she started the sob story about how painful recovery was and she “almost died”.  What truth there is to this, I don’t know.  What I do know is I’ve seen my brother go through 16+ CRITICAL reconstructive surgeries on his face, skull, and hand and well…he really could have died.  When he was 9 months old he came home form the hospital with ear to ear staple, two black eye swollen shut, and a nose in a brace.  And he and my parents didn’t have “round the clock nurses” or a “5 star recovery house” to go to.  So sorry Heidi.  Its tough to be you.  And you wanna know the best part…she said this was “a spiritual journey”.  Billy asked her about her so called Christian beliefs that she and Spencer hyper up so much and asked her if she believed in God the Creator.  To this she replied “yes, of course”.  Billy then asked, “then why did you take it into your own hands to let a doctor recreate you”.  To this she just kinda nervously laughed (as much as her plastic face would allow) and said “well I mean God made the doctor?”.  I’m stunned.

So that’s my rant and rave for you all.  Thought would definitely be appreciated.  Am I being to harsh on Heidi?  Is she as self-centered and attention seeking as I think she is?  Let me know =)

I’ll leave you with these awesome lyrics from her latest album release.  It’s called…surprise surprise, “Superficial”

“They say Im superficial
Some call me a bitch
They just mad cause
Im sexy, famous and Im rich”

Jamie tagged me so here it goes (thanks for giving me an excuse to ramble about myself Jamie!)

1. I got a random flyer in the mail, threw it away, and then for some reason I went and picked it back up.  That flyer led to me running 13.1 miles with an amazing group of people and raising $19,000+ for Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and the experience changed my life.  The flyer was for Team In Training and and am currently signed up for two more events with them, mentoring for one of them! Go Team!
2. I’ve been a dancer forever and currently teach, dance, and choreograph for my college’s dance company.
3. From sophomore year throughout highschool I was the cheerleader dating the quarter back but I was by no means the “popular girl”.  5 year together.  He’s still a quarterback.  Now I’m a runner.
4. I went to the same school from Kindergarten through Senior year (yep that’s 13 years). McDonogh will always have my heart.
5. My blog is named Live, Love, Run, Pray because these are the for things that pulled me out of my darkest days of letting eating disorders and body dysmorphia rule my life.  I am finally healthy and learning to be okay with who I am.  I have a long way to go before I can say “I am recovered” but I am a completely different person than that sick and broken girl I spent 4 years being.  I’m not looking back!
6. My brother is 2.5 years younger than me and is the strongest person I know.  He was born with a condition called Craniofacial Dysplasia which is long way of saying his bones didn’t grow right, especially the bones in his skull and face.  He’s been through about 20 surgeries, many of them critical, in his 18 years on Earth but you would never know it.  He is smart, funny, athletics, hardheaded (in every since of the word, he has a good amount of metal plates and screws in his head), sarcastic, and the farthest thing from disabled I can imagine.
7. My dad’s sister married my mom’s brother so I have three cousins who are on both sides of my family…we aren’t siblings but we have the exact same blood lines.

And one bonus one…There are few things I love more than laughing until my abs hurt!

Okay so now I’m supposed to take 7 Blog Friends…I’m trying to make sure you haven’t done this before so if you have sorry =)

• Mother Runner
• Road to LA
• From 0 to Runner
• Run Faster Mommy
• Lindsay’s Marathon Training Blog
• Un-Athletic Runner
• Run 26.2 for Kelly

Speaking of Run 26.2 for Kelly, last night I stumbled upon this blog, and Oh my goodness…I was up until 2, crying.  Yep.  I cried over a blog.  With my roommate in the room.  If you haven’t checked it out yet, this blog is the story of Ross and his friendship with a special young women, Kelly, who was his Team in Training honored patient.  Okay you all know that Team In Training has my heart and soul and means the world to me but Ross’s blog just reinstated why I love this organization so much.  Unfortunately Kelly is no longer with us and I will never meet her on Earth, but I swear I feel a very strange connection to her.  First off, I turned 21 on January 4th and ran my first Team in Training event on January 9th.  Get this, Kelly would have turned 21 on January 9th.  I was running on her birthday and we were born literally 5 days apart.  I just couldn’t stop reading about Kelly and Ross’s journey.  I came across this video last night this morning and seriously cried my eyes out.

I was first struck with a sense of guilt.  Here I am celebrating so much in my life this year, and Kelly isn’t here.  Her family doesn’t have her anymore.  But you know what, I know have another running angel.  Thank you Kelly!  We will be spending alot of time together in the next few months of training and I will be talking to you alot during those long runs!  Shine down pretty girl, and smile on!

What has touched you this week?

Oops, I got so excited about creating a working spreadsheet for the 1,010 challenge that I forgot to include the update in Sunday FunDay!  Sorry ladies and gentlemen (Miguel, we now have Father Runner…you aren’t the only guy!)…here’s how all my wonderful participants are adding up =)

• Amanda: 27.56
• Christina: 92
• Erica: 24.5
• Felice: 36.3
• Joanna: 34.4
• Kathy: 69
• Kathy: 20
• Katye: 51.75
• Kim: 45
• Kriste: 2.5
• Libby: 11.37
• Melissa: 53
• Miguel: 76.6
• Mother Runner: 29
• Stephanie: 26.5
• Suzy: 45.17
• Tall Mom: 48
• Zoë: 66.49
• Father Runner: 40

So awesome job this week!  Rock on and Peace out =) (Sometimes I like to pretend I’m a hippy…but I can’t handle the unwashed hair and drugs part so I’ll never be a true hippy)

This is us rejoicing in our running accomplishments this week.

Oh and just a little something I learned on Oprah today…you are 4 times more likely to get in an accident when you drive drunk.  You are 8 times more likely to get in an accident if you and driving while texting.  Just something to think about.