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!

2 Miles pffffttt!

I was feeling antsy today so I went for a training walk, 2 miles later my face was frostbit but I felt wonderful! Walking 60 miles in 3 days takes a lot of training. Lots. Especially if you hope to make the 3 days without blisters. (which I did last year, yay!) And that training has to start somewhere, so I did 2 miles today. Some of you may wonder why? Why start with short walks? Cause I said so! (Ooops sorry. I have a teenage daughter so any why question automatically gets that answer. LOL) Why? Starting out with the short walks is good to help build up your feet against blisters and your muscles for the endurance of 60 miles in 3 days. It also helps to build your knowledge of how much water, food and potty breaks you may need per mile. So let's play a guessing game... How many training miles did Wendy walk last year? Any guess? 265 miles. Yep 265 miles! Add on the 6o miles from the 3 Day and I walked 325 miles last year for breast cancer research. I've added a box over there to the right --------------------------> for Darcy and I to keep track of our training miles for 2010. Any guesses as to how many we'll log this year? My guess will be a lot more. Why? (cause I said so! sorry) Well, mainly because this year's walk for me is later in the year. Instead of walking in August we'll be walking in October. That's two more months of training walks for me to do. This is a big commitment, huge really. It takes a lot of time to train to walk for 6o miles in 3 days. Because of our big commitment we're asking you to please donate to our cause; breast cancer research. Show us support as we walk, wear our pink and talk to everyone we can about what we are doing. http://www.the3day.org/goto/mstqsolesisters