Week 6 Update

Hi everyone ~ hope you all are doing well :). This weekend has been a little under the weather for me. Saturday morning at 6:30am I awoke to snow flurries in Atlanta... and I think I was wearing shorts at some point last week- go figure, it's GA weather for you. So, needless to say it was a little difficult to not just role over in bed and go back to sleep (especially after trying to recover from an all day final exam on Friday). But I managed to get up and make my way to Team in Training practice. Every time I don't feel like getting up to run I think about how Erin and so many people fighting cancer are much more courageous than myself and the least I can do is get my butt up and run (and its amazing how motivating it is to run when you have a big group turn out to run in the freezing cold, that's really hard to do by yourself). This week I ran 10 miles (actually it was probably a little over 10 miles, we got to talking and passed the road we were supposed to turn on and had to run a little ways back). It was so crazy, we would be running while it was snowing and then the sun would come out from behind the clouds and warm up a little and then it would start to snow again- but like I mentioned...its Georgia, enough said. I planned on running 7 or 8 miles but the people I were running with were running 10 and since I don't like to try and read maps and run at the same time I just let them be the navigators and I ran a little more.

Anyway, not sure if it was the running, the snow, lack of sleep this past week, the flu going around everywhere or combination of everything but I came down with a fever on Saturday afternoon and took a 3 hour nap before going to bed at 9:00pm. Then on Sunday my fever went away but I still had a persistent cough that wouldn't go away and still felt kind of lousy so I proceeded to go back to sleep that afternoon for another 3 hours. I wish you could stock pile on sleep because if so...I would be golden for this week :). Anyway, there's my story for this weekend, hopefully I'll be a little more up to par next week.

Thanks to all who have contributed to the fundraising...it's progressing slowly but surely! I'm about 57% there!! And to keep you posted on my Hero, Erin, she got to go home on Friday after completing round 2 of chemo- yay for being home with family, home cooking and warm cozy beds! Please pray for her speedy recovery and road to remission!

Have a great week! Love to all!
:) Denise