BLOOMSDAY 2010

Sunday was Bloomsday here in Spokane. That is a annual 12K road race.

This year it started pretty windy and chilly but once you got moving it was ok. Below are some of the sights I witnessed on the course.

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Can you see all the people on the hill?

A picture of the Spokane River that you cross before the hill.

This is what awaits you at the top of Doomsday Hill . . . .

. . . it's the vulture!!!!

And of course the day could not be complete without the finisher T-shirt!!!!

Resting for a couple weeks

I have this. Plantar fascitis. I've been googling and talking to fellow walkers with it and more googling...

I will be doing the stretches, icing and resting my left foot for a week or so.

I jokingly told my DD it's her fault. I've had issues with my left foot ever since being pregnant with her. She had all her baby weight on my left side when I carried her and my left foot would often go numb. I could always tell afterwards if I was starting to put on too much weight, my left foot would start to be sore and go numb.

But this? Probably too many miles on last year's shoes. I wanted to wait until my clinic on May 15th to get new shoes, and I may have hurt my foot with worn out shoes.

Any other ideas on what I can do, please let me know.

Thanks!

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24 Weeks Until We Walk

We received our first official training schedule from the 3Day this week. The countdown begins!!! Countdown: 24 Weeks Your Training Schedule for This Week: Monday- Rest Tuesday- 3 miles, Easy walking Wednesday - Rest Thursday- 3 miles, Moderate walking Friday- 30 minutes, Easy cross-training Saturday- 3 miles, Easy walking Sunday- 3 miles, Easy walking I won't bore you with posting our official training schedule every week, but I will share it with you time to time. Here we go! 24 Weeks out. Thanks for all the support so far, keep it coming!

I Gotta Feeling

There's a few lists on the internet of "You Know You're a 3 Dayer When...." These are a few of my favorites.

• When a 5-mile walk is a “Stroll in the Park”.
• When you walk 10 miles and think nothing of it, because you know you have done 60 before.
• Every time a horn goes off you raise your hand.
• Talking about blisters at dinner seems like a normal mealtime topic.
• You’re proud, not embarrassed, to wear a fanny pack.
• You wear your victory shirts all the time, hoping someone will ask about it so you can convert another 3-Day walker.
• Every time you hear the Black Eyed Peas song “I Gotta Feeling”, you smile.
• You are so used to port-a-potties that you revel in amazement when, after 3 days, you get to flush a toilet.
• You start packing for every trip using Ziploc bags, trying to stuff an entire day’s clothes in each one.
• You know where every public bathroom and every business that will let you use their bathroom is within 30 miles of your home.
• You are looking forward to showering in a truck.
• Your inbox shows “a donation was made on your behalf” and it feels like you won the lottery.
• Your philosophy on blisters is that they don’t need chemo.
• It’s all you can talk about for 10 months out of the year.
• You can pick out 3-Dayers in training walking on the weekends because they walk with purpose.
• When you cross the street, you are disappointed that people don’t honk, wave, or blast Disco music as they drive by, and that there are no children handing out popsicles or candy on the street corners.

The last song on my walk this evening was I Gotta Feeling... it made me smile and remember this list.

Getting Started Meeting

Today I attended my local Getting Started Meeting for the 3 Day. At this meeting we get to learn more about the Susan G Komen 3 Day, where the funds go and more information on the actual 3 Day event. In fiscal year 2009, Komen made grants to more than 1,900 community organizations totaling more than $93 million. Those dollars funded grants allowing: 􀀹 More than 3.9 million people to receive breast cancer education materials and information 􀀹 More than 260,000 women to receive a potentially life-saving mammogram 􀀹 Approximately 5,000 people to be diagnosed with breast cancer who otherwise may not have been diagnosed 􀀹 More than 100,000 women to benefit from psychosocial services and treatment assistance 􀀹 Virtually every major advance in the fight against breast cancer in the last 28 years has been impacted by a Susan G. Komen for the Cure grant. So the funds we have to raise are really going to good use. Please remember to donate to us! After the meeting, Vanessa from the Coconut Strutters lead us on a 5 mile training walk. Thanks Vanessa! I think those hills today will be a good preview for what we'll see in SanFrancisco.

Pink Jewels

Be sure to click on the link on the right to get to my Etsy store and check out my Pink Jewels. All proceeds form the sale of my Pink Jewels will go towards my 3 Day fundraising goal!