Recovery Run

Just to keep you in the loop I did do my 2nd maintenance run last week. I just got busy and didn't blog. However, not too much to talk about that run. I ran 3.3 miles to the park, around the park and home again. I finished my audio book The Goal along the way. Met up with one of my neighbors during my run. She's apparently a pretty fast walker! I have been keeping true to my goal of 1 maintenance run on my own per week and its getting easier. I still prefer to run with others tho:)

Yesterday Sunday August 8th was my mommy's Birthday (Happy Birthday Mom!) and my 5 mile recovery run from last weeks 10.
From now on we will be doing recovery runs in between our long runs. However as the long runs increase so will our recovery runs. Example: last week was 10 miles so this week we did 5. Next week we will do 12 miles so the week after that will be 6 miles, so on and so forth. Until eventually a recovery run will be 10 miles! WOW!

Bring it on! I say:)

This recovery run was amazing! My dear friend Tiffany, from Vegas came out to visit with her really good friend Anna for the weekend. (it was awesome to see her, its been far too long) They volunteered on Sunday to do water for the runners and earned my fund raising $40! Thank you soooo much girls! It means so much to me. I know getting up at 6am is hard:) You really are Rock stars!

We arrived at the site 10 till 7am. We did our usual warm up as they told us a story about a guy running this marathon that has HIV. He wrote a letter sharing his story and thanking all the fundraisers for helping him maintain his life. He said without this program he would not be able to take his medicine that keeps him alive. It was very moving. It really brought my attention back to the fact that this really isn't about me and what I'm doing really does affect the lives of others. SO powerful. (I will share the letter in another blog so you that you all know what your contribution really is doing.)

Today our pace group leader along with 3 others of the group were all absent! Shannon and I are the only ones that showed up! WOW! I cant believe it! I have a feeling their 12 miles next week aren't going to be the easiest. :/

However today we all had to name our pace groups. What was our team going to be called? Shannon and I had all the power to name it!WaaHaaaHaa...;)

We had a really good run and got to know each other a lot better. It was really nice. We mostly talked about fund raising and the benefits of running in our lives. We both agreed running this marathon is teaching us patience and compassion with ourselves as well as unlimited health benefits. After our amazing conversations and are alignment with reaching inner peace, we agreed on The Peaceful Warriors as our group name. I feel really good about that! After all running this marathon has been my Zen Master! :)

P.s I won an AIDS Marathon hat for reaching $500 + in the first month! Whoo Hoo! Thank you everybody for your generosity! $2555 left! We can do it!