Brrr - it's starting to actually feel like fall

Finally, fall has arrived in Central Florida! Yeah!! Can't wait for the kids to get on the bus so I can go out for a nice, short run. It's going to be a great week according to the weather forecasts.

Tonight, bon voyage party for our TNT mates doing the Disney Wine & Dine. So proud of all the hard training they've been putting in to get ready for it. Crazy Ken will be back in town for the weekend of the run.

So, gotta go, kids need to be hustled out to bus stop.

Trunk N Treat

Trunk N Treat - so much fun! Always a good time with my best friend and the kids. And so many cute costumes too!
And, after all that fun last night, I was able to get up and do my 8 miles. It was the most boring run since I had to do it on my own and was having issues. So resorted to just doing laps around my loop. That's right 8 loops = 8 miles! Got her done and ready for the rest of the week!

Go Team!!

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Curses Hurricane Sandy!

So Sandy has ruined my week! First I had to cancel the door decorating contest at school because they closed up on Friday due to the expected bad weather. Then Pumpkins in the Park was cancelled. It looks like we'll be able to do our church's Trunk & Treat, but what a bummer. Hope it isn't too wet and windy. Everyone always does such a nice job decorating, but the wind my wreck havoc on decorated trunks this year.

Oh and I haven't gone out training in a few days either. Today I'm scheduled to do 8 and it's going to be tough getting that done on my own. Yep - this weekend is a buddy weekend and Leisha wanted to go today, but I have too much going on and frankly, the wind whipping us around didn't sound like much fun. So I'm going to have to do it on my own tomorrow I guess.

Anyway, not letting it get me down - gotta go. I have to sew a zebra costume before tonight. Oh My - so have a great weekend everyone!

100 Hour Challenge

So I've been challenged to ask 100 friends to donate $10 over the next 100 hours! So far, it's been a slow start, but I have raised $50 today!! All monies are going directly to The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society so it's a great day.

I also completed my first work assignment for the LLS today. So excited for this opportunity. Not too many of these kinds of jobs around. Working from home for an organization I'm passionate about. Yeah baby! That's what I'm talking about.

Anyway, still fundraising so I can make it to Washington DC for the inaugural Nike's Women's Half Marathon. Great time of year to be there too - April - I can just smell those Cherry Blossoms now!

Wonder who our president will be then? Could be a changing soon.

Don't forget why I'm doing this - to raise money for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society to find a cure to blood cancer. Please help me in my 100 hour challenge by donating $10 today. Please visit my website now:

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Up and Over!

5:00 am is awfully early, but that's what time I get up, at the latest, when we're meeting at Front Street. Gotta leave the house by 5:30 to be on time for training. Anyway, I'm glad I put in that extra effort to make it. The weather was perfect. Almost a hint of Fall I'd say in the air. It wasn't blistering hot and it wasn't blinding sunshine. It was a perfect mixture of cool breezes and partly cloudy skies.

However, when I say cool "breeze", I should say cool gusty winds. Going up and over that causeway bridge was tough! But, I did it, twice! Yep that's right - twice. We needed to get in 8 miles, so we started at one park and went up and over the bridge to the park on the other side and then repeated. My hams are aching a little, but it was a really nice day. We don't get too many days in Florida that you aren't getting beat up by humidity and heat. So, I say "bring it on". St. Pete is a month away and then it's Disney, and then Washington D.C.

Doing it because it's fun, but more importantly, I'm running with purpose, walking with passion and racing for a cure. Support the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society by visiting my website and making a donation. The LLS thanks you, TNT thanks you, my team thanks you, and most of all I thank you.

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Hanging with the kiddos!

No training today. Kids had a student holiday so no school. Nice quiet morning with no where special to be. Mornings like these are rare indeed. Cleaned out the garage, lounged about and then went to Hotel Transylvania with the kids. Cute movie - lots of laughs.

What a great day! Saturday - 8 miles planned with the team . . .

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Absolutely Beautiful!!

Absolutely - beautiful weather today in sunny Florida. It was a great run over the Indian River. Cool, slight breeze, perfect!

So, 4 more miles to chalk up against the face to end cancer. Disney just a few months away and then off to the Nation's capital! Wonder who will be President at that time?

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