Those are the words at the end of the first paragraph of the last blog post on behalf of my cousin Pat's husband Sid. That's great news. You should expect to live a full and normal life her doctor said. There are still some tests to be done, but it seems her treatment has been successful.
Makes me feel good about raising money for LLS to see the people close to me surviving Lymphoma and Multiple Myeloma. Because right now my friend Kay Kay's dad is doing well also.
And so I keep running. The last three weekends saw 2 hour runs and at 12 miles each. They haven't been very pretty, but that's okay. The first of those was at 5:30 am on my own so that I could get in a run before heading to the summit of Pikes Peak to support my friends running the Ascent.
Last weekend's run was just hot. It was on a part of the Santa Fe trail that I like, but that doesn't have much shade. I don't much like the heat. So I slogged through 12 miles - slow, lacking energy and well, just ugly. I wasn't able to do any more mileage this week, but it wasn't quite as hot. The second half started to get warm, but there was enough shade among the hills to make it doable.
I think that I'll only be able to get in one more long run before race day. School has started and so has travel season for work. So I have class Monday til 10 and Wednesday til 7 and for most of September I am hopping on a plane on Thursday morning to work the weekend and then fly back on Monday morning. I'm hoping to get in A run on the days I am on the road. Won't likely be time for 2 hour runs, but any run will be better than none. I got new tunes from Kat which will help if those runs have to be treadmill runs. I'll be home and able to run long on Sept. 19, but that may be it until Oct. 9 which is a week before the race.
Once, again, I am grateful for all your support. I've raised over $1000 beyond my minimum and I'm so glad to be doing this even in the midst of the craziness.
